BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED AND JACK WESTON IN 'GATOR'

<p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0rbMu8AnQ0bwpBxOAiCIl6YUDIj1ZodfASuCsEnhnfGErPYkEj6UI5lLWp-upJYfZL6wFucprygM_j6rVrFcDn0EwAvyasJUXt6D5AbSeA75OgbdMmchIf41ieeHAEE-Hkp_RJp8skBZKHceqcbznqFTP44NLkxz8Z-P3BXCwkljUGSHMQ4xRO7ldHAb/s1888/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1888" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV0rbMu8AnQ0bwpBxOAiCIl6YUDIj1ZodfASuCsEnhnfGErPYkEj6UI5lLWp-upJYfZL6wFucprygM_j6rVrFcDn0EwAvyasJUXt6D5AbSeA75OgbdMmchIf41ieeHAEE-Hkp_RJp8skBZKHceqcbznqFTP44NLkxz8Z-P3BXCwkljUGSHMQ4xRO7ldHAb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in GATOR Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Burt Reynolds got the directing bug for the <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2012/06/white-lightning.html">WHITE LIGHTNING</a> sequel GATOR, that's really more a reboot given a similar plot with the titular moonshiner now donning a slick mustache, dating big city newscaster Lauren Hutton, raising a young daughter and seeming more like a professionally-suave secret-agent than Southern rogue reluctantly gathering information for the feds... in this case an affably overweight Jack Weston, who'd have made a worthier constant sidekick than random connection...<br></p><p></p><p></p><p>He hires Burt's Gator McKlusky to help nab a crime boss that's horribly miscast, and not because of acting since Jerry Reed (who sings the funky title theme song) is almost always great...</p><p><span></span></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS WITH JERRY REED AND JACK WESTON IN 'GATOR'

Burt Reynolds in GATOR Year: 1976 Rating: **1/2 Burt Reynolds got the directing bug for the WHITE LIGHTNING sequel GATOR, that's really...

JIM CARREY & KAREN KOPINS IN 'ONCE BITTEN' WITH LAUREN HUTTON

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdpzDuHnya0wcECULCDsBc4L_Up7zLJG4wZ-I1btRRO3Wu3rnO-HRDe2NItQnjpr-qU-PqHfKZKegeq_yWBWSMJOXuzhL1SPtgcSiujBXp8vRgi3c5bdyDkF3cCjQCvsn7ZWxtav14fiQiWHOESo6Bgi7WvTB45tjAvXXwJ6AsYHsy1J5t-XrqgLei6Cv/s1996/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-09%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdpzDuHnya0wcECULCDsBc4L_Up7zLJG4wZ-I1btRRO3Wu3rnO-HRDe2NItQnjpr-qU-PqHfKZKegeq_yWBWSMJOXuzhL1SPtgcSiujBXp8vRgi3c5bdyDkF3cCjQCvsn7ZWxtav14fiQiWHOESo6Bgi7WvTB45tjAvXXwJ6AsYHsy1J5t-XrqgLei6Cv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-09%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Karen Kopins and Jim Carrey in ONCE BITTEN Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Bizarre that the future highest paid comic actor (at the time a hyperactive standup comedian) with the talents to go insanely overboard with zany expressions and physical zaniness, would actually consecutively headline a TV-series and motion picture as the straight man passively watching the goofiness occur around him...<br></p><p></p><p>In 1984, after THE DUCK FACTORY was cancelled, Jim Carrey got his big screen debut in ONCE BITTEN (which gained a cult following on cable television): cleverly stretching a then-timely joke that goes along with while blending into the sex-comedy template: in that four-hundred-year-old vampire Lauren Hutton could never find a modern day virgin to remain youthful... ironic since those comedies are about shy boys trying desperately to lose theirs'...</p><span></span>

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JIM CARREY & KAREN KOPINS IN 'ONCE BITTEN' WITH LAUREN HUTTON

Karen Kopins and Jim Carrey in ONCE BITTEN Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 Bizarre that the future highest paid comic actor (at the time a hyperac...

BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyixHR9sk8JPDglJ9JQJqAkRiq3Km4yvHjfaLCJKoxp022l8rgvucUj9az6YUWld3qLUrhYjS8lC894rf5a31VkXg1EpFvD2WQFCNvBflPBKq02wp21V_1BM7ShMYcluzrjuUhzUP3ka42SizNJW9j0wXOs9FQ64hqQXjcGsorWvb3_MzjRIxc707t9rU/s1379/12.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="1379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPyixHR9sk8JPDglJ9JQJqAkRiq3Km4yvHjfaLCJKoxp022l8rgvucUj9az6YUWld3qLUrhYjS8lC894rf5a31VkXg1EpFvD2WQFCNvBflPBKq02wp21V_1BM7ShMYcluzrjuUhzUP3ka42SizNJW9j0wXOs9FQ64hqQXjcGsorWvb3_MzjRIxc707t9rU/s16000/12.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Burt Reynolds in PATERNITY with Aileen Quinn  </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase flicks, Burt Reynolds is never alone. There's always an eclectic cast of characters supporting him along the process...<br> <br> But here’s a movie where Burt, playing extremely subtle as a single successful guy who yearns to have a baby, seems completely isolated, at first, and not only because he wants the child born through a surrogate mother...<br> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>

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BURT REYNOLDS WANTS TO HAVE YOUR BABY IN 'PATERNITY'

Burt Reynolds in PATERNITY with Aileen Quinn  In his string of romantic comedy films, and even his car chase flicks, Burt Reynolds is never...