Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/06/burt-reynolds-has-died-the-ac.html
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RIP Burt.
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Boogie Nights was such a damn good movie.
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Keep the pedal to the metal and stay 10-10 on the side, good buddy. RIP Bandit!
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It’s just weird watching bits of my childhood die. I remember seeing Smoky and the Bandit films in the theater with my parents.
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He was still alive? With the National Enquirer killing him off every couple months for years now, I just assumed that he was dead.
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No, no. If he had been dead, the Enquirer would have been bringing him back to life every few months.
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“Hooper” was my favourite as a kid; fun, stupid stuntman stuff all the way.
Seemed like a nice guy, mostly, he’ll be missed.
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Reynolds had an impish – sometimes wicked – sense of humor. Guesting on the Johnny Carson Show, he made a comment about one of the other guests there (whose name I can’t recall, still to be brought out and to be seated alongside him): “He’s a great guy. I know this because he told me so.”
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I hear you. I saw so many of his movies in the theater when I was a kid.
I loved it when he did voice work as himself on Archer.
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Fun fact: Norm played a character who was the son of a character Burt played in My Name Is Earl
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Safe travels, good buddy.
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He’s leading the angels on wacky car chases now.
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And remarkably, he seemed to steer clear of any #MeToo kind of accusations, despite the atmosphere of the day. Fingers crossed.
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Aw man. Time to watch Cannonball Run.
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RIP.
Then I don’t suggest rewatching Blazing Saddles anytime soon; it really harshes the fuck out of your mellow, when you realize all the big name stars it featured have passed on, save for Mel Brooks…
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Deliverance is my all time favorite movie. No special effects, no CGI, no scary monsters other than human nature and being stressed under survival conditions. I’ve spent a lot of time in the back country and running into other humans who have ill intent would be scarier than just about any situation I can imagine. RIP Burt.
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