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The fine folks at Me-TV<\/a> posted 8 Quick Facts about Smokey and the Bandit<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Before you click over… Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> holds a special place for me…\u00a0<\/p>\n First, it’s a funny movie.\u00a0 You’ve got Burt Reynolds (the #1 box office star of the time), Jackie “the Great One” Gleason and Sally (ain’t she just too cute) Field in a silly car chase movie that works every time if you’re looking for a good time.<\/p>\n Second, it brings back tons of great memories.\u00a0 Here’s one – my now deceased brother-in-law, loved Smokey and the Bandit.<\/em> Randy could do a hilarious impersonation of Jackie Gleason as Bufford T. Justice.\u00a0 If you could have been there the night he ordered a Diablo Sandwich and a Dr. Pepper and “make it fast cuz I’m in a gol-darn hurry” — we, along with the waitress couldn’t stop laughing… which of course just encouraged him to continue.<\/p>\n And here are my three favorite Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> facts with my thoughts…<\/p>\n It was Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite movie.<\/strong>\u00a0 I find this hard to believe, but if true, I’d loved to have had the chance to watch and then discuss Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> with him!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It was based on real life.<\/strong>\u00a0 I’d read before that Sherriff Buford T. Justice’s name was based on a real police officer’s name.\u00a0 Can you imagine?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It beat Star Wars<\/em> at the box office.<\/strong> The caveat is that this was just for one week and Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> was in over ten times as many theaters.\u00a0 But, still it did win for the week. (And I actually prefer Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> to Star Wars<\/em>!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fine folks at Me-TV posted 8 Quick Facts about Smokey and the Bandit.\u00a0 Before you click over… Smokey and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24716,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions\/24716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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