RIP Burt Reynolds
- Thread starter Funky Bunch
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No, but it would never be approved in a movie made today.
I watched White Lightning and Gator back to back recently. Two damn good movies. I don't know if it was the first time they teamed up, but Burt and Jerry Reed in Gator were great together. Lots of tremendous 1970s action scenes where you could see that the stars were doing some of their own work, and the ones that the stunt men did were amazing. There was one in Gator where Burt is clinging to a truck while Jerry Reed drives off the road, onto a beach, and through a little shack. Somewhere along the way a stuntman is inserted and as the truck flips the stunt man puts both feet on the door and kicks himself free of the impending wreck.
I always felt that the Reynolds/ Deluise Pack would have been a fun one to party with. They were always laughing and having a good time. Those Cannonball Run sets had to be awesome.
Not really. When he passed away I put these two movies in my deep reserve on Netflix. I finally got the time to watch them back to back and posted about it.
Now, this is a weird bump. I was watching A Taste of Armageddon, an episode of the original Star Trek, last week when a rare speaking role was given to some random hot chick in a red uniform. I look up the episode and the actress who played Yeoman Tamura is Miko Mayama. I click on her bio and it says she met Reynolds in 1968 when he came to Japan to film the movie Impasse. She followed him back to the US and they would up banging for 3 years.
The dude had him a life.
