Burt Reynolds is joining USA Network's 'Burn Notice' this summer. According to the Ausiello Files the American actor will guest-star as a "legendary operative, now retired and cast out of the CIA, who serves as somewhat of a cautionary tale for Michael (Jeffrey Donovan)."

Burt Reynolds & Burn Notice - Actor Signs on as "Legendary Operative".

"Things have not gone well for him since he left the spy service,” series creator Matt Nix says of Reynolds' character, Paul Anderson. “He’s now working as a bartender under an assumed name, and he gets into trouble with some very nasty Russian guys.


More notes...Reynolds says that he gets weepy watching sad movies after having life-saving heart surgery.

The 74-year-old Smokey and the Bandit actor had quintuple bypass surgery in February after going to his doctor for a regular health check-up. Reynolds says in an interview with The Orange County Register: "When they say, 'You broke your heart', you become... very sentimental and weepy.

"If I watch a movie about Shep the dog, you become very open to a lot of things you thought were very silly before. I'm told it will pass."


The former sex symbol told the California newspaper his heart troubles took him by surprise and that he didn't even have a heart attack.

"They call it the silent killer," he says. "I went in totally just to get an annual check-up. They used that new thing where they slice and dice your heart with a camera. "Every artery was clogged up. All five of them."

Reynolds spent time recuperating in a Florida hospital. Now he says he is on the road to recovery by walking a lot and using small hand weights. "The [doctor] says I have a 32-year-old heart now," he says. "If the rest of me catches up, I'll be in great shape."

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