Smokey and the Bandit Part 3

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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On June 30, 1988, the Sunset Park Bus Depot in Brooklyn was renamed the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot in honor of the native Brooklynite. (Ralph Kramden, of course, worked for the fictional Gotham Bus Company.) A statue of Gleason as Ralph in his bus driver's uniform was dedicated in August, 2000 in New York City, by the cable TV channel TV Land. The statue is located at 40th Street and 8th Avenue, at the entrance of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bus terminal. Another such statue stands at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in North Hollywood, California, showing Gleaso ...

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After leaving CBS in 1970, Gleason and Carney appeared in several Honeymooners specials on ABC during the 1970s, and a made-for-television movie, Izzy and Moe. In 1985, three decades after the debut of the filmed Honeymooners, Gleason revealed that he had carefully preserved kinescopes of his live 1950s programs in a vault for future use. These "Lost Episodes," as they came to be called, first aired on the Showtime cable network in 1986 and later were syndicated to local TV stations. Some of them include what amount to rough drafts of what became better-developed Classic 39 themes, but they prove ...

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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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Gleason was hired as the host of DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars and he fashioned a variety hour balanced between glitzy entertainment and his surprising comic versatility. He became one of the few major hits DuMont would enjoy from 1950 to 1952, with some thinking he had a chance to pry the "Mr. Television" title from Milton Berle. With splashy dance numbers framing the show, Gleason began to develop sketch characters that would stay with him for many years, and in 1952 he accepted a big offer to move his extravaganza---renamed The Jackie Gleason Show---to CBS, where he became the nation's number two h ...

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Gleason grew up as an only child, abandoned by his father (probably the reason he never mentioned Ralph Kramden having a father on The Honeymooners) and raised by his loving, but work-worn and troubled mother, who died when he was around 16. Gleason first gained recognition in the Broadway play Follow the Girls. He simultaneously appeared in small parts in such films as Springtime in the Rockies, Orchestra Wives (as a swing band bassist---the band itself was played by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, in Miller's final film project before joining the Army Air Force), and Navy Blues, but he di ...

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Throughout the 1950s and early '60s, Gleason enjoyed a secondary career in recorded music, lending his name to a series of best-selling "mood music" albums for Capitol Records. Like the Beatles and many other songwriters of the following decade, Gleason could not read or write music in a conventional sense; he composed melodies in his head and transposed them with the help of an able staff. (He did likewise with the well-remembered themes of both The Jackie Gleason Show and the Classic 39.) There has been some controversy over the years as to how much credit ...

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Gleason restored his original variety hour---including "The Honeymooners"---in 1956, but within three years Carney had departed and the show had begun to lose its energy. Gleason experimented with a game show, You're in the Picture, which survived its only episode only because of Gleason's hilarious on-the-air apology in the following week's time slot. In 1962, however, he had resurrected his variety show with a little more splashiness (the June Taylor Dancers' routines became more elaborately choreographed and costumed than before) a ...

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Gleason had a dramatic side that the comic pathos of the Poor Soul hinted at often enough. He earned acclaim for live television drama performances in The Laugh Maker on CBS' Studio One (where he played a semi-autobiographical role as fictional TV comedian Jerry Giles), and in William Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, also for CBS, as an episode of the legendary anthology Playhouse 90. But Gleason's greatest dramatic acclaim came for his portrayal of Minnesota Fats in the 1961 Paul Newman movie The Hustler, in whic ...

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At first, "The Honeymooners" musicals helped push The Jackie Gleason Show back into the top five in the ratings. Millions of Americans whose parents had enjoyed the original 1950s show now got to hear Gleason end each Saturday night---done live---with, "As always, the Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world!" But even that audience began aging and the show aged with it. The ratings began to dip as "The Honeymooners" now completely dominated the show, and Gleason and CBS---which had signed him to a big-money deal in ...

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Nothing in Common proved to be Gleason's final film role. While he made the film, he was already fighting colon and liver cancer. He was hospitalised at one point in 1986-87 but checked himself out and died quietly at his Inverrary, Florida home 24 June 1987. He was 71 years old. In the year of his death, Miami Beach honoured his contributions to the city and its tourism by renaming the Miami Beach Auditorium---where he had performed The Jackie Gleason Show li ...

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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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