The Bandit has died
The Bandit has died
Victory is never permanent
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No, Paul Crewe has died.
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Lewis, from Deliverance. "WHERE'S THE LAW, DREW!"
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Lewis, from Deliverance. "WHERE'S THE LAW, DREW!"
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Cardiac arrest. RIP Burt. "Deliverance" was my favorite movie of his.
I wonder what Sally Field will say. Burt always said that she was the love of his life.
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I wonder what Sally Field will say. Burt always said that she was the love of his life.
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My mother-in-law was at FSU with him when he was their QB. She didn't know him personally but had mutual friends and mutual, um, "acquaintances" . She heard some stories. He, uh, well, let's say he did very well at a school which was, only a couple of years before he arrived, all female. In fact, if you look up the timeline history of FSU on their school website, you find this:
As a pre-teen and early teen at the time, "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run" (and II) were classics for me. That whole gang of actors were from a generation and a lifestyle that won't, for better or worse, ever happen again.
RIP.
Florida State advertises this.1953: Burt Reynolds—Miami high school football star and future actor—favors FSU over Miami University, swayed by Coach Nugent telling him, “There are 14 girls for every guy.”
As a pre-teen and early teen at the time, "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run" (and II) were classics for me. That whole gang of actors were from a generation and a lifestyle that won't, for better or worse, ever happen again.
RIP.
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RIP Burt Reynolds
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This.PeteRasche wrote:
As a pre-teen and early teen at the time, "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Cannonball Run" (and II) were classics for me. That whole gang of actors were from a generation and a lifestyle that won't, for better or worse, ever happen again.
RIP.
First big name actor I remember, although SATB is my second movie going memory, Godfather II on Christmas, of course, being the first! :)
Bring home da Wave!
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Victory is never permanent
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I’m still awed/stunned that the compound fracture Reynolds suffered in Deliverance was real. Still makes me clench my teeth.
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Actually, that's filed under "urban legends." The bone we saw sticking out of his wet suit was a pork bone they got from a butcher shop (the butcher broke it for him, to make it look like a human leg bone).TUPF wrote:I’m still awed/stunned that the compound fracture Reynolds suffered in Deliverance was real. Still makes me clench my teeth.
What Reynolds actually broke was his coccyx. He went over a waterfall, got driven to the bottom, and was shot out like a torpedo, ending up about 65 yards downstream. Somewhere in there, his tailbone was sacrificed.
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Another urban legend bites the dust!
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Another interesting aside: according to Reynolds, the actor who played Drew (Ronny Cox) actually threw up when he first saw the fake compound fracture.TUPF wrote:Another urban legend bites the dust!