The 1977 movie "Smokey and the Bandit" is largely famous for two reasons: the Pontiac Trans Am driven by the titular Bandit, and the performances of the late Jerry Reed and Burt Reynolds as Cledus ...
It's been 40 years since Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason teamed up for the iconic film "Smokey and the Bandit." There is an annual re-enactment -- Restore a Muscle Car's ...
When most people think of the movies of summer 1977, their mind invariably goes to “Star Wars,” the sci-fi phenomenon that still gets people’s juices flowing all these years later. But George Lucas’ ...
The late 70s and early 80s saw a wave of car chasing, barroom brawling, crowd-pleasers that ruled the box office, and Smokey and the Bandit (the second-highest grossing movie of 1977, after Star Wars) ...
They said it couldn’t be done. Twenty-eight hours to run from Georgia to Texarkana, Texas, and back with 400 cases of Coors in a big rig. But they did it. For the money, for the glory and for the fun.
With the death of actor Burt Reynolds on Sept. 6, another small piece of my teenage years disappeared. Oh, not really, since memories never die. It’s just different knowing that yet another person who ...
Breaker-breaker, we have a 10-20 on a Smokey and the Bandit TV series, which is being developed by executive producer Seth MacFarlane for NBC Universal's UCP (Universal Content Productions). The ...