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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: bijou on September 20, 2008, 09:00:30 AM
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Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71.
His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed, no relation to the star, said Reed died early Monday.
"He's one of the greatest entertainers in the world. That's the way I feel about him," Moore-Reed said.
Reed was a gifted guitarist who later became a songwriter, singer and actor.
As a singer in the 1970s and early 1980s, he had a string of hits that included "Amos Moses," "When You're Hot, You're Hot," "East Bound and Down" and "The Bird."
In the mid-1970s, he began acting in movies such as "Smokey and the Bandit" with Burt Reynolds, usually as a good ol' boy. But he was an ornery heavy in "Gator," directed by Reynolds, and a hateful coach in 1998's "The Waterboy," starring Adam Sandler.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/02/obit.reed.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
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Ah dang.
RIP Jerry. :(
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Did I just go back in time? Didn't he die a couple of weeks ago? :???:
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Did I just go back in time? Didn't he die a couple of weeks ago? :???:
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Did I just go back in time? Didn't he die a couple of weeks ago? :???:
uh oh...Groundhogs Day Effect!