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Citizens' band radio (CB) is, in the United States, a system of short distance radio communication between individuals on a selection of 40 channels within the single 27 MHz (11 meter) band. The CB radio service should not be confused with FRS, GMRS or amateur radio. CB does not require a license and unlike amateur radio, CB may be used for commercial communication. Citizens' band radio - History. The citizens' band radio service was formed following a decision in 1945 by the US government that its c ...

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• Citizens' band radio - Part 15 and ISM Devices
• Citizens' band radio - Shooting Skip
• Citizens' band radio - Freebanding and Export Radios
• Citizens' band radio - Regulation and Enforcement
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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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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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In the United States Citizens' band (CB) radio service is intended to be a private two-way voice communication service for use in personal and business activities of the general public. Its communications range is from one to five miles. The Citizens' band radio services are described in part 95 of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) and is defined as a personal radio service. Citizens' band radio - Eligibility. There are no age, citizenship or license requirements to operate a CB radio in the Un ...

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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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When Smokey and the Bandit first aired on American network television in the early 1980s, censors were faced with the challenge of toning down the raw language of the original film. For this purpose, they overdubbed dialogue deemed offensive, which was (and remains) common practice. Unfortunately, the original actors were unavailable, therefore substitutes were used. In the case of Jackie Gleason's character, a voice actor with a noticeably higher voice was used and in some scenes in both this film and the TV version of Part II ...

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Silent comedian Harold Lloyd climbs the entire height of a Los Angeles skyscraper without wires, or nets. Lloyd dangles from a broken clock face on the topmost floor above moving traffic despite having only three fingers on his right hand. Steamboat Bill, Jr. The front of a house falls down with Buster Keaton standing in the exact position of an open window, leaving him unharmed. His stone-faced expression remains. Ben-Hur Joe Canutt Judah Ben-Hur rid ...

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One of the earliest known bloopers is attributed to 1930s broadcaster Harry Von Zell, who accidentally referred to then-US President Herbert Hoover as "Hoobert Heever" during an introduction. Reportedly it was upon hearing of this mistake that Kermit Schaefer was inspired to begin collecting bloopers. One famous out-take from Australian television is from the gameshow Who Dares Wins, hosted by former cricketer Mike Whitney. The scene involved Whitney introducing a challenge by throwing a water balloon from hand to hand and deli ...

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But by far his most popular character with his audience was blustery bus driver Ralph Kramden, who lived with his tart but tenderhearted wife, Alice, in a two-room Brooklyn walkup, one apartment beneath his best friend, sense-challenged sewer worker Ed Norton ("The first time I took the test for the sewer I flunked---I couldn't even float!") and his likewise tart wife, Trixie. Partially inspired by the earlier radio hit The Bickersons and largely drawn from Gleason's harsh Brooklyn childhood ("Every neighbourhood in Brooklyn had its R ...

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Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason - The Early Years, Jackie Gleason - And awa-a-ay we go!, Jackie Gleason - Hey There Ralphie Boy!, Jackie Gleason - Melancholy Serenade, Jackie Gleason - The American Scene Magazine, Jackie Gleason - Goodnight Everybody!, Jackie Gleason - The Flip Side of the Great One, Jackie Gleason - The Honeymoon Wasn't Over, Jackie Gleason - And Awa-a-ay He Went, Jackie Gleason - Tributes, Jackie Gleason - TV Work, Jackie Gleason - Filmography, Jackie Gleason - Stage Appearances, Jackie Gleason - Record Albums

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As is the case with the two proceeding Smokey and the Bandit films, Smokey and the Bandit Part Three begins with Big (McCormick) and Little (Williams) Enos offering a sizable wager on one's ability to transport a shipment a large distance in a short period of time. Offering a slight twist, however, the offer is this time made to a retiring Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason), betting $250000 against his badge on his ability to transport a l ...

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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 - Plot, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 - The Fans

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He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and his songs have been performed by both popular and country music artists. He is the son-in-law of actor Keenan Wynn. He has won one Academy Award, two Grammy Awards and several Golden Globes. Williams is responsible for a number of enduring pop hits from the 1970s, including the popular children's favorite "The Rainbow Connection", sung by Kermit in "The Muppet Movie", and the cover-band requirement "We've Only Just Begun", stil ...

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A.J. Bakunas died doubling for George Kennedy in a fall from the Kincaid Building in Kentucky. Bakunas had successfully performed a fall from the ninth floor of the construction site, but when he learned that Dar Robinson had broken his record high fall for a non-movie related publicity stunt, Bakunas returned to perform the fall from the top of the 300 foot construction site. Bakunas performed the fall expertly, but the airbag split and Bakunas was killed. ...

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In the early days of cinema, some actors such as Buster Keaton and Charles Chaplin did most of their own physical stunts. However, as these performances were usually very dangerous and many movie stars were not so athletic, filmmakers and insurance companies turned to hiring stunt doubles to do the stunts. Most action movie actors today use stunt doubles, though some of them do a few of their own stunts to please movie fans. One famous exception to this norm has been Jackie Chan from Hong Kong, although he has recently admitted to using digitized effects in his movies. Phanom Yeerum, an actor who is highly skilled in Muay Thai, ...

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The term "blooper" was coined by TV producer Kermit Schaefer, who produced many record albums in the 1950s and 1960s collecting actual and recreated bloopers taken from radio, film and television. Besides "out-takes" or "outtakes", alternative terms used to describe this phenomenon include goof, fluff, flub, and the obsolete term, boner. Also, in Britain, they are often called a 'cock-up' or a 'bloomer'. In Britain, the term 'blooper' is often used only to describe mistakes that happen on live television. By the 1970s it was common practice ...

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Blooper, Blooper - History, Blooper - Causes of bloopers, Blooper - Examples of bloopers, Blooper - Acceptance of out-takes

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Paul Williams songwriter - Movies. The Loved One, 1965 The Chase, 1966 Watermelon Man, 1970 Battle for the Planet of the Apes, 1973 Phantom of the Paradise, 1974 Smokey and the Bandit, 1977, as Little Enos, a recurring part The Cheap Detective, 1978 The Muppet Movie, 1979 Smokey and the Bandit II, 1980 Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, 1983 The Doors, 1991 Headless Body in Topless bar, ...

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Bloopers are generally caused through human error. Where actors need to memorise large numbers of lines or perform a series of actions in quick succession, out-takes can be expected. Similarly, newsreaders have only a short time to deliver a large amount of information - often from foreign countries - and are prone to mispronounce place names and people's names, or switch a name or word without realizing it, as in a slip-of-the-tongue or Freudian slip. Specific examples include: uncontrollable laughter, unanticipated incidents (i.e. a prop falling or breaking), forgotten lines, or deliberate sabotage of an actor's perf ...

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Blooper, Blooper - History, Blooper - Causes of bloopers, Blooper - Examples of bloopers, Blooper - Acceptance of out-takes

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In the late 20th century, though, stunt men were placed in dangerous situations less and less as filmmakers turned to relatively inexpensive (and much safer) computer graphics effects using harnesses, fans, blue- or green screens, and a huge array of other devices and digital effects. The Matrix (1999) is a hit action movie that used CGI stunts extensively. Stunt - Examples. See also:

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In past Hollywood movies it was common for men to double for women and Caucasian stunt performers to double for African-American performers. It is now against union rules for stunt performers to double an actor of a different gender or race unless the stunt is so dangerous that there are no other volunteers, for example when B.J. Worth doubled for African-American Grace Jones parachuting off the Eiffel Tower in A View to a Kill. The rise of action heroines like Angelina Jolie and African-American stars like Will Smith has offered wider opportunities for stunt perfor ...

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Movies such as Hooper and The Stunt Man and the 80s television show The Fall Guy sought to raise the profile of the stunt performer and debunk the myth that movie stars perform all their own stunts. Noted stunt coordinators Hal Needham, Craig R. Baxley and Vic Armstrong went on to direct the action films The Cannonball Run, Action Jackson, The Joshua Tree. Vic Armstrong became the first stuntman to win both an Academy Award (for developing a descender rig as a safe alternative to airbags) and a Bafta award (for lifetime achievement in film). ...

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The citizens' band radio service was formed following a decision in 1945 by the US government that its citizens should be permitted a short-distance radio band for personal communication. The 11-meter band was taken from the amateur radio service for the Citizen's band. But it was not until the 1970s, when technology had advanced to reduce costs, that the CB market prospered, US truckers being at the head of the boom. Many CB clubs were formed and a special CB slang language evolved. The prominent use of CB radios in mid- and late-1970s film ...

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