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   On Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 4:40:03 PM UTC-7, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:   
   > Deliverance   
   >   
   > By Mark Steyn   
   > Mark at the Movies   
   > Steyn Online, steynonline.com   
   > Saturday, September 8, 2018   
   >   
   > Burt Reynolds gases up for a quiet weekend in the country   
   >   
   > In a line much quoted since his death on Thursday, Burt   
   > Reynolds observed, "I may not be the best actor in the   
   > world, but I'm the best Burt Reynolds in the world." And he   
   > was. It made him a huge box-office star in the Seventies,   
   > and thus the best Burt Reynolds in the world cruised   
   > amiably through Smokey and the Bandit, Cannonball Run and   
   > variants thereof for a hugely lucrative decade. He took his   
   > bankability and invested it in things he liked - a football   
   > team, a petting zoo, and a lovely little theatre in   
   > Jupiter, Florida. Squire to an impressive variety of   
   > desirable women (Judy Carne, Dinah Shore, Sally Field, Loni   
   > Anderson), Burt Reynolds was indisputably the best Burt   
   > Reynolds he could be, until various health issues took   
   > their toll in recent years. Nevertheless, before he became   
   > Burt Reynolds in full but after a long apprenticeship in   
   > "Gunsmoke", "Flipper" and far worse, he turned in a pretty   
   > terrific acting performance in the 1972 film that made him   
   > a bona fide star.   
   >   
   > In 1970 the poet James Dickey wrote a first novel about a   
   > canoeing trip in the wilds of Georgia that goes awry. The   
   > British director John Boorman read it, liked it, and made a   
   > film of it two years later, roping in Dickey for the   
   > screenplay and a cameo as the sheriff of a condemned rural   
   > county about to be buried underwater by a new dam. John   
   > Boorman has made several splendid films in the years since;   
   > James Dickey went back to poetry and didn't write a second   
   > and third novel until half a decade before his death; but   
   > neither man ever again planted something in the popular   
   > consciousness the way they did with this picture, and its   
   > instantly recognizable one-word title. . . .   
   >   
   > Continues at:   
   >   
   > https://www.steynonline.com/8803/deliverance   
   >   
   > Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi   
   > Om Shanti   
   > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj   
      
   (2022 article):   
      
   https://www.inentertainment.co.uk/the-dark-heart-of-deliverance-   
   he-story-behind-the-film-released-50-years-ago-this-month/   
      
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