Word: basset
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...Smokey and the Bandit. The judge was Burt himself, who will play the bandit opposite Sally Field as a hitchhiker and Jackie Gleason as a Texas sheriff who's trying to track him down. Burt's choice as the canine co-star was a two-year-old basset hound named Happy: "I picked the one that looked best in the bathing-suit contest. He was also the most congenial." How's that again, Burt? "I didn't think ego would be a problem in our working together," Reynolds explained. "His legs are shorter than mine...
...with happy incongruity in Ted dy Roosevelt's America, this Much Ado was all gingerbread and gingham. Benedick smoked cigars, wore a boater and, as he is played by Sam Waterston, looked like a dyspeptic basset hound...
Died. Jules Munshin, 54, basset-eyed comic actor, veteran of Hollywood and Broadway; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A seasoned vaudevillian, Munshin's hilarious antics in his first major Broadway role (a mustered-out soldier in 1946's Call Me Mister) established him as a star, and three years later he scored his greatest hit gagging it up with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly as trouble-prone sailors in the film On the Town. Always drawn back to the stage, he went on to appear in such Broadway productions as The Gay Life, Barefoot in the Park...
...dropped, along with the test tubes she was carrying. Martin summoned up the dopeyest basset hound-Pat Paulsen deadpan he could imagine until she finally realized he was kidding (Thank God! Man, what a sober little babe!) and began to laugh. So did Martin and, to his discomfort, the entire biology...
...dropped, along with the test tubes she was carrying. Martin summoned up the dopeyest basset hound-Pat Paulsen deadpan he could imagine until she finally realized he was kidding (Thank God! Man, what a sober little babe!) and began to laugh. so did Martin, and, to his discomfort, the entire biology...