RIP Burt Reynolds American Hero

[Michchamp]

Great American Mustache...

Cardiac arrest. He was 82.

 

[biggunsbob]

Rip Burt ��

He was the highest grossing star from the years 1978 through 1982 equaling the longest stretch since the Bing Crosby days. Impressive .

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...-deliverance-boogie-nights-star-was-82-831093

 

[Michchamp]

Adding Smokey and the Bandit to my netflix queue.

 

[Mitchrapp]

So many good movies and was always good at getting his friends paid. Got screwed by his account/financial person..



Rest in peace Burt.

 

[Michchamp]

smokey and the bandit is one of those movies I feel like everyone in my generation has heard of, but no one has actually seen.

reading the plot now in wikipedia... kinda sounds like the ultimate 70's redneck movie.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Not sure I knew anyone who hadn't watched it. A fast car and Buford T. Justice. What else you need.

 

[Michchamp]

Huh...

Legendary film maker Alfred Hitchcock stated that the movie was one of his favorites.​

 

[tinselwolverine]

This is by far his greatest screen performance. Pardon the foreign language subtitles.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VY2OE6vBxQM

 

[Polish-Hammer]

smokey and the bandit is one of those movies I feel like everyone in my generation has heard of, but no one has actually seen.

reading the plot now in wikipedia... kinda sounds like the ultimate 70's redneck movie.

It was super popular in Communist Poland as well. Started the CB radio trend there as well.

 

[biggunsbob]

Deliverance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBS...ZbXA4lyCtqrjExd5cLYlFxXYm9UEigs_&index=6&t=0s

 

[turok]

Reynolds once posed nude in Playgirl magazine, probably its best-selling issue ever. The Pontiac Firebird Trans Ams which were used in the Smoky and the Bandit movies, had to be tweaked, b/c their stock carbed V8 engines of the late 70s were neutered by emission controls and put out a puny 185 hp. However, and even though GM has discontinued the Pontiac make, there are a few boutique auto shops which are stripping and modding new Camaros into what new Trans Ams might look like, including 40th anniversary 2017 LE Bandits, which make 800+ hp, and were hand-signed by the late Reynolds.

 

[turok]

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I would like to see GM through Buick soon reintroduce the Firebird/Trans Am and/or Chevy with the Chevelle models, along with Chrysler bringing back the former Barracuda/Cuda and Roadrunner models. During those cars' high performance musclecar heydays, I was too young to buy one of them new, or before emission controls, rapidly rising insurance premiums, and high fuel prices did most of them in. Even the early Mercury Cougar models were pony cars, many with high-hp engines, before they were turned into luxo land-barges by the mid-70s.

I almost bought a used one-owner '73 AMC Javelin SST with a 401 cubes big block V8 back in the spring of '77, but opted instead for a new Camaro Z28, b/c Chevy had just brought that model back after a 3 year absence, and keeping it fueled and insured wasn't such a wallet-drainer like the Javelin would have been. But obviously owning a rare Javelin SST now in good condition would fetch a much higher price @ auction than the Camaro would.

 

[tomdalton22]

Listening to his "obit" on Howard Stern today. Sounds like Burt was a real asshole. Both of his ex-wives said he beat them.

 

[Polish-Hammer]

Listening to his "obit" on Howard Stern today. Sounds like Burt was a real asshole. Both of his ex-wives said he beat them.

Think most of us are too deep into idol whoreship to care.

 

[Michchamp]

Norm MacDonald's portrayal of him on celebrity jeopardy was apparently not too far off the mark

 

[Michchamp]

idol whoreship? do you mean worship?

 

[biggunsbob]

If he beat his wife then he is a dick and fuck him if it is true.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I watched some of his movies I know nothing of his personal life.

 

[Polish-Hammer]

idol whoreship? do you mean worship?

Nah, money exchanged hands.


Stand by the non-existing word whoreship.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Nah, money exchanged hands.


Stand by the non-existing word whoreship.

??whoreship? is one ending consonant sound away from horseshit.