Burt Reynolds’s 1972 centerfold in Cosmopolitan was, simply put, a major moment in pop culture. It was our magazine’s—any magazine’s—first time featuring a man in that kind of spread ...

In the 1970s, there was arguably no bigger star than Burt Reynolds ... At the time, the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan featuring Reynolds as its first-ever nude male centerfold had just been ...