Tag: burt reynolds
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Since it is Super Bowl LIII weekend, here are TailSlate’s Ten Favorite Football movies
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Movies about football have been around almost as long as the game itself. The first professional football player signed a contract to be paid to play in 1892. In 1921, Two Minutes to Go was…
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TailSlate remembers the iconic Burt Reynolds
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“All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I’ve stepped on them all” – Burt Reynolds If he hadn’t suffered…
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TailSlate remembers Bernie Casey
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Bernie Casey, best known for roles in Revenge of the Nerds and Sean Connery’s final Bond film, Never Say Never Again; died in Los Angeles on September 19, 2017. He was 78. That might be…
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Tail Slate recasts one of the biggest hits of 1977
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Four decades ago, a movie hit theaters that soared past the $100 million box office mark. It spawned sequels in 1980 and 1983 that did well at the box office between them. No, not Star…
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Famed stuntman and director Hal Needham has passed away
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Hal Needham, who directed the films Smokey and the Bandit and a number of other films featuring actor Burt Reynolds has died. But long before he first sat in the director’s chair of a feature…