In 2016, Reynolds spend several weeks filming the movie Apple of My Eye at Southeast Guide Dogs in Palmetto. worn most famously as the eponymous smuggler in the Smokey and the Bandit films.
BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT CLIP MOVIE
Reynolds had a lifelong connection to Florida and visited the Sarasota and Manatee region many times in his later years through his connection to Kennedy. Burt Reynolds, the mustached sex symbol of the 1970s and 1980s, who ruled the box office with good-ol’-boy movies like Smokey and the Bandit and earned the critical praise he so badly desired in Starting Over and Boogie Nights, died Thursday in Florida of cardiac arrest, his agent confirmed to Yahoo Entertainment.He was 82. While looking for the appropriate Burt Reynolds clip to lead off a tribute to the iconic 1970s movie star. I think that's what sparked that friendship.” Florida and the Bandit He could not believe somebody would take that time to help him. “I took like a 30-man team, and we did a one-day home makeover. “He had roofing issues, air conditioning issues, several things at his house in Jupiter,” Kennedy said. He was there for an autograph, but instead, he made a friend. In a December 1993 interview on the Des O'Connor Tonight talk show, Reynolds said Trans Am sales went up by 600% after the movie.Ī car buff himself, Kennedy – who owns the Kennedy Construction Group in Palmetto – met Reynolds in 2013 at a car show in Jupiter, where he learned that even the Bandit, who was then in his mid-70s, needed a helping hand at his home. On it was this clip talking about the show, and it was an interview with Burt Reynolds on the set of Smokey and the Bandit, the biggest movie star in the.
Some of these cars have a lot of value.” Meeting Burt Reynolds It's unfortunate because some of those would be really iconic to be in a museum. so more often than not, Hollywood would destroy the car. “When Hollywood generally gets done with a movie, they will dispose of the cars for liability reasons. “These movie cars get lost in history,” Kennedy said. Kennedy also has the Blues Brothers 1974 Dodge Monaco, and recently finished a rebuild of Cousin Eddie's RV from Christmas Vacation. To the left, the last car Elvis Presley ever purchased, a white 1977 Lincoln Continental. Just beside the Trans Am in the car workshop filled with parts and tools sits one of the iconic General Lee cars from Dukes of Hazard, an orange 1969 Dodge Charger. Kennedy now has at least a dozen cars under his care that have been on-screen, owned by famous personalities, or are somewhere in the process of recreation. Stream songs including 'The Legend', 'Incidental CB Dialogue (Bandit & Snowman)' and more. That was the sale that sparked Bandit Movie Cars. Listen to Smokey And The Bandit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Various Artists on Apple Music. That really started quite a few more things for us. “He absolutely got an injection of energy, I had never seen him quite like that after that moment. “It looked like Woodstock,” Kennedy said.