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2 days ago · Hal Needham was a trailblazer in that regard, with Burt Reynolds’ regular double making his feature-length debut on Smokey on the Bandit, which he followed up with Hooper. That movie was an ode to the hard work, dedication, and utmost professionalism of stunt performers everywhere, basically David Leitch’s The Fall Guy almost half a century early.
1 hour ago · Hal Needham, an extreme weather scientist widely known to other locals in Galveston, Texas, as "Hurricane Hal", was up just after 4 a.m. on Monday to monitor the storm and livestream updates.
5 days ago · House of the Dragon season 2, episode 3 foreshadowed Daemon Targaryen’s fate and teased a scene I have been dreaming of since the show was announced. George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood summarizes the history of House Targaryen, including the civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
3 days ago · Director Hal Needham (who would direct Cannonball Run four years later) and star Burt Reynolds saw what was being advertised as the 1977 Trans Am in a Pontiac brochure.
2 days ago · In 1977 Hal Needham chose the Firebird Trans Am as the car Burt Reynolds would drive in “Smokey and the Bandit,” a movie that made $300 million on a $4.3 million investment. He got four cars from Pontiac and wrecked them all. Filmed in Georgia, “Smokey” was about a race to smuggle Coors beer to Atlanta.
5 days ago · Booth was based on Hal Needham, whom Esquire described as “a cross between… MacGyver and the Dos Equis guy, inventing stunt rigs and shattering bones by day and beefing with John Wayne by night.”
5 days ago · Directed by Hal Needham, this rollicking road movie is brimming with comedic capers and wild stunts, all set against the sprawling backdrop of America's highways. It's a light-hearted romp that never takes its foot off the gas.
