Burt Reynolds, legendary actor of 'Smokey and the Bandit' fame, dead at 82
Oh damn. He wasn't even that old. Although I suspect he lived a hard life.
Parts of his movie "White Lightning" were filmed in the small town in Arkansas where I grew up. That is the biggest thing to hit that town before or since. One lady we knew saw Burt throw a styrofoam cup he'd just used into a trash can. She retrieved and saved it as a souvenir. Sheesh.