From People’s June 7, 1982, issue: Burt Reynolds has another girlfriend. The new lady is Loni Anderson, 36, who played the dizzy blonde on TV’s recently canceled, widely mourned WKRP in Cincinnati. One day Burt, 46, and Loni drove to his house, only to have a photographer spring out of the underbrush and begin to shoot. Infuriated that the cameraman was on his property, Reynolds leaped from the car, tongue-lashed the varlet and chucked his camera over the fence. The film survived, however, and deniability perished. There is nothing wrong with Loni Anderson. She is a true-blue lady, intelligent, talented and a good mother to her 17-year-old daughter Deidra. The problem is that there is only so much of Burt, a workaholic, to go around. “These are the vintage years for me as an actor,” he says, meaning as a romantic lead. But asked for his priorities, he lists family and friends first, and indeed, all these years he’s scarcely missed a Christmas at home.
JAIL TIME Sophia Loren, 47, spent 17 days in Italian prison for a tax evasion conviction from 1964. The Oscar-winning actress faced the punishment to shoot a film in her home country later that year.
IMPOSTOR Kris Kristofferson, 45, informed pal Willie Nelson, 49, of the whereabouts of a doppelgänger who forged the “Georgia on My Mind” singer’s signature on $25,000 worth of checks. Police charged the man with forgery and impersonation.
Man! He Feels Like a WomanDustin Hoffman dressed as Dorothy Michaels, the drag persona of his Tootsie character Michael Dorsey, while filming in New York City.
A French ToastFaye Dunaway celebrated with her then husband, Terry O’Neill, at a Cannes Film Festival reception in honor of the actress signing on to the period drama The Wicked Lady.
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