Longtime "Smokey and The Bandit" fans might be interested to learn the Burt Reynolds and Jackie Gleason diner scene was ...

The late 70s and early 80s saw a wave of car chasing, barroom brawling, crowd-pleasers that ruled the box office, and Smokey and the Bandit (the second-highest grossing movie of 1977, after Star Wars) ...

Forty-five years ago, Cora the elephant shared screen time with movie star Burt Reynolds in the popular film, "Smokey and the Bandit II." Fans of that movie — including Reynolds' niece, Nancy Lee Hess ...

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the “Best Picture” of 1977 is Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. That’s nuts. No one cares about that movie. Only two movies made in 1977 still ...

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Watching Smokey and the Bandit all these years after its release is an exercise in cultural anthropology. Even more so than other films of its time, this 1977 car-chase comedy drops markers about its ...

Aging Topeka Zoo elephant Cora, who appeared 45 years ago in a "Smokey and the Bandit" movie, is expected to get a visit June 9 from fans of those films. Participants in "The Bandit Run," a large, ...