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...Sunday Times of London reported last week that the findings of Sir Cyril Burt, who died in 1971, were "sometimes impossibly constant" and quoted several scientists who said Burt's results should not come out exactly the same over several experiments...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl, | Title: 'Faked' Data Linked With Herrnstein I.Q. Research | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

Directed by BURT REYNOLDS Screenplay by WILLIAM NORTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: White Trash | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...movie society, Gator must be ranked as poor white trash-the kind of tacky little film that finds its natural home in small-town drive-ins and at those tattered old downtown theaters that specialize in double-feature action programs. Yet Gator offers the agreeably self-satirizing presence of Burt Reynolds and evidence that he may also have some modest talent for vigorously unsophisticated direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: White Trash | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

...slightly spaced-out contestant claimed he had an invisible dog, then paraded across the stage with only a leash in his hand. Apart from that, more than 450 pooch owners turned up in Atlanta last week to audition their dogs for a role in Burt Reynolds' next movie, 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 13, 1976 | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

...Robert Altman, has created a sly, wry, wise study of what fame does to people cursed with that most mixed of blessings. Buffalo Bill Cody (superbly played by Paul Newman) was a legend created out of flimsy cloth by a pulp writer and promoter named Ned Buntline (impersonated by Burt Lancaster), who lurks around the fringes of the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bill Rendered | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

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