Burt Reynolds

Burt Reynolds (born Burton Leon Reynolds February 11, 1936 in Waycross, Georgia) is an American actor. He may be best remembered as the "Bandit" in the 1977 hit film Smokey and the Bandit. Burt Reynolds - Biography. Reynolds was born to a half-Cherokee Indian father and a mother of Anglo-Saxon descent. After graduating from Palm Beach High School in Palm Beach, Florida, Reynolds attended Florida State University on a college football scholarship, becoming an all-star Southern Conference halfba ...

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• Burt Reynolds - Biography
• Burt Reynolds - Filmography
• Burt Reynolds - TV work

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Reynolds was born to a half-Cherokee Indian father and a mother of Anglo-Saxon descent. After graduating from Palm Beach High School in Palm Beach, Florida, Reynolds attended Florida State University on a college football scholarship, becoming an all-star Southern Conference halfback. While at Florida State, Reynolds joined the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, the football team's fraternity of choice. After a knee injury in 1955 and then a debilitating car accident, Reynolds switched from athletics to college drama and won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award. He was drafted by the Baltimore Colts National Football League team, ...

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Burt Reynolds, Burt Reynolds - Biography, Burt Reynolds - Filmography, Burt Reynolds - TV work

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1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). 1936 - Events. January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee. January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. January 16 ...

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• 1936 - Events
• 1936 - May-June
• 1936 - July-September
• 1936 - October
• 1936 - November-December
• 1936 - Unknown Dates
• 1936 - Births
• 1936 - January-February
• 1936 - March-April
• 1936 - May-August
• 1936 - September-December
• 1936 - Deaths
• 1936 - January-March
• 1936 - April-August
• 1936 - October-December
• 1936 - Nobel Prizes
• 1936 - Fields Medalists

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Carl Hiaasen [pronounced "hiya-sun"] (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist and novelist. Born and raised in Plantation, Florida (near Fort Lauderdale), Carl was the first of four children and the son of a lawyer, Odel and teacher, Patricia. He married Connie Lyford just after high-school graduation and entered Emory University in 1970. In 1972 he transferred to the University of Flori ...

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• Carl Hiaasen - Bibliography
• Carl Hiaasen - Fiction
• Carl Hiaasen - Non-fiction
• Carl Hiaasen - Awards
• Carl Hiaasen - Other Florida-based crime fiction writers
• Carl Hiaasen - External link

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Cannonball Run II is a film that was released in 1984. Like the original Cannonball Run, this film is a comedy set around an illegal cross-country race. The cast included Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Catherine Bach, , Susan Anton, Jackie Chan, Shirley MacLaine, Sid Caesar, Foster Brooks, Telly Savalas, Jamie Farr, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza, Ricardo Montalban, Jack Elam, Richard Kiel, Don Knotts and Tim Conway (in their final pairing togther after 4 films together), Jim Nabors, Louis Nye, Moll ...

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• Cannonball Run II - Trivia
• Cannonball Run II - Awards and nominations
• Cannonball Run II - External link

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Sheriff Buford T. Justice was the character played by Jackie Gleason in the movies Smokey and the Bandit, Smokey and the Bandit II and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. As a foul mouthed Texas county sheriff, he chased the Bandit, played by Burt Reynolds across country on several occassions. According to Smokey and the Bandit II, he had two brothers, Gaylord Justice and Reginald Van Justice. He also had an idiot son whom he only called Junior. Buford T. Justice is ...

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Anne Murray, CC , ONS , LL.D (born Morna Anne Murray June 20, 1945), is a Canadian singer born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, known for her rich alto voice and her taste in choosing songs that appeal to pop, country and adult contemporary listeners alike. For many, her fame as the representative Canadian singer is rivaled only by Gordon Lightfoot. Unlike many internationally-renowned Canadian singers, she has always resided in Canada and now lives i ...

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• Anne Murray - TV Work
• Anne Murray - Music
• Anne Murray - Early Career
• Anne Murray - Later Career
• Anne Murray - Personal Life
• Anne Murray - Awards & Honors
• Anne Murray - Music-Related Facts
• Anne Murray - Other Trivia
• Anne Murray - Performances
• Anne Murray - Producers who worked with Anne
• Anne Murray - Record Labels
• Anne Murray - Albums on US Billboard charts
• Anne Murray - Singles on US Billboard charts
• Anne Murray - UK Singles Chart
• Anne Murray - Grammy Awards
• Anne Murray - DVD's
• Anne Murray - Books

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Christine Marie Evert (b. December 21, 1954 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player from the United States. During her career, she won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 7 at the French Open. She also won 3 Grand Slam doubles titles. Evert's career win-loss record in singles matches of 1309-146, or 90%, is the best of any professional player in tennis history. Chris Evert - Tennis career. Evert began taking tennis lessons when she was five years old from her fa ...

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• Chris Evert - Tennis career
• Chris Evert - Personal life
• Chris Evert - Grand Slam singles finals
• Chris Evert - Wins 18
• Chris Evert - Finalist 17

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A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. Along with drama, horror and science fiction, comedy is one of the largest genres of the medium. A comedy of manners film satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often represented by stock characters. The plot of the comedy is often concerned with an illicit love affair or some other scandal, but is generally less important than its witty and sometimes bawdy dialogue. This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back to ...

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• Comedy film - History
• Comedy film - 1930s
• Comedy film - 1940s
• Comedy film - 1950s
• Comedy film - 1960s
• Comedy film - 1970s
• Comedy film - 1980s
• Comedy film - 1990s
• Comedy film - 2000s

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Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters — characters who are currently in frequent interaction with the other characters and who influences current story events — who are never seen or heard by the audience and only described by other characters. Radio shows and plays also feature characters who never speak, and books feature characters who are merely referred to. List of unseen characters - Unseen characters in television. Hidden characters appear in all varieties of fiction, ...

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• List of unseen characters - Unseen characters in television
• List of unseen characters - Television programs
• List of unseen characters - Heard but never seen
• List of unseen characters - Neither seen nor heard
• List of unseen characters - Heard but never completely seen
• List of unseen characters - Unseen characters who were spoken of for a long time and then eventually seen
• List of unseen characters - Stage plays
• List of unseen characters - Movies
• List of unseen characters - Comic strips comic books webcomics and graphic novels
• List of unseen characters - Radio programs
• List of unseen characters - Books
• List of unseen characters - Video games
• List of unseen characters - Heard but never seen
• List of unseen characters - Unseen characters that are later seen usually final bosses

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Christopher Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer renowned for his film portrayal of Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent in four films from 1978-1987. On May 27, 1995 Reeve was rendered a quadriplegic during an equestrian competition near Culpeper, Virginia, and was confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. He became a spokesman for disabled people and a vocal supporter of stem cell research. Reeve lobbied tirelessly for st ...

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• Christopher Reeve - Acting career
• Christopher Reeve - Injury
• Christopher Reeve - Later life
• Christopher Reeve - Selected quotes
• Christopher Reeve - Selected filmography

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"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song which rivals "The Star-Spangled Banner", the national anthem of the United States, in popularity. It is often found in Christian hymnals in a wide variety of churches in the United States, and may be sung as part of a Christian service of worship to God. America the Beautiful - History. The words are by Katharine Lee Bates, an English teacher at Wellesley College. She had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1893 to teach a short summer sc ...

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• America the Beautiful - History
• America the Beautiful - Lyrics
• America the Beautiful - Takeoffs
• America the Beautiful - Books

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Celebrity Jeopardy! is one of the most popular recurring sketches on Saturday Night Live that parodies the television game show (Jeopardy!) of the same name, which is known to have easier-than-normal answers asked when celebrities compete. 13 sketches have been aired to date, numbering 2 a season from 1996-2002, and 1 in 2005. Will Ferrell appears as host Alex Trebek in all 13 of the sketches. Darrell Hammond appears in all episodes as well, 11 of them as Sean Connery. Norm MacDonald appears in four episodes, all as Burt Reynolds. Also, Jimmy Fallon app ...

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The term chest hair is generally used to describe hair that grows on the anterior torso of human males. The hair is typically short (about 1 inch long) and may extend across both chest and abdomen in a variety of growth patterns. The slang terms "happy trail" and "treasure trail" refer to hair growth between the navel and pubic region. Among males, chest hair is a common secondary sex characteristic, and the development ...

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James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced "double-oh seven"), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. Fleming wrote numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in 1964, further literary adventures were written by Kingsley Amis (pseudonym "Robert Markham"), John Pearson, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and Charlie Higson; in addition, Christopher Wood wrote two screenplay novelisations and other authors have also written ...

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• James Bond - The character
• James Bond - The franchise
• James Bond - Biography of James Bond
• James Bond - Novels
• James Bond - By Ian Fleming
• James Bond - Post-Fleming James Bond novels
• James Bond - Young Bond
• James Bond - The Moneypenny Diaries
• James Bond - Other Bond-related fiction
• James Bond - Films
• James Bond - Official
• James Bond - Unofficial
• James Bond - Other films pertaining to James Bond
• James Bond - Music
• James Bond - Video games
• James Bond - Comic strips and comic books
• James Bond - Bond characters
• James Bond - Vehicles & gadgets
• James Bond - Trivia

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A stick is: a group of 12 paratroopers, a Branch from a woody plant, also used as a rod (disciplinary implement, e.g. hickory stick), formal attribute (e.g. swagger stick) or Club (weapon), stick shift transmission any long object, e.g. stick of dynamite, an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm). The clapstick is an instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo. A Led Zeppelin album (see Led Zeppelin IV). The Chapman Stick is a musical instrument

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All Dogs Go to Heaven is an animated film directed and produced by Don Bluth and released by United Artists in 1989. It tells the story of a street-wise dog named Charlie B. Barkin (voiced by Burt Reynolds), who works for the mafia-like dog known as Carface. After a plot by Carface causes Charlie's death, he is sent to the afterlife where he meets the guardian dog of Heaven, Annabelle. She tells him that once his life clock has run out, he must remain in Heaven. Using his streetwise guile, Charlie manages to trick Annabe ...

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Flag of the Cherokee Nation The seal of the United Keetoowah Band Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma (f):    175,000+ United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, Oklahoma (f):    10,000 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, North Carolina (f):    10,000+ (f) = federally recognized The Cherokee (ah-ni-yv-wi-ya in Cherokee) are a people native to North America who at the time of European contact in the 16th century i ...

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• Cherokee - Bands and naming
• Cherokee - Language and writing system
• Cherokee - History
• Cherokee - The modern Cherokee Nation
• Cherokee - The Environment
• Cherokee - Gay marriage
• Cherokee - Famous Cherokees
• Cherokee - Notes

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A Century of Cinema is a 1994 documentary directed by Caroline Thomas about the art of filmmaking (coinciding with cinema's 100th anniversary), containing numerous interviews with some of the most influential characters of the twentieth century. A Century of Cinema - Celebrities Interviewed. Richard Attenborough Dan Aykroyd Kim Basinger Milton Berle George Burns Tim Burton Nicholas Cage Marge Champion Geraldine Chap ...

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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (originally titled Star Wars) is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first film to be released in the Star Wars saga, but it is the fourth part of the series by chronology of events. Among fans, it is commonly referred to as "ANH." Nineteen years after the formation of the Galactic Empire, Luke Skywalker is thrust into the struggles of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived in seclusion for years on the ...

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• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Plot summary
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Cast
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Overview
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - The music
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Sound
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Score
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Re-releases
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Theatrical
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Home Video
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Special Editions
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - 2004 DVD Special Edition
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Selected sources and inspirations
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - The Hidden Fortress 1958
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - The Dam Busters 1954
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Battle of Britain 1969
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - 633 Squadron 1964
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Dune
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Triumph of the Will 1935
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Errors
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Trivia
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Novelization
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Radio drama
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - DVD release

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