Word: gator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That contented-looking fellow is Actor Burt Reynolds, starring as a backwoods Southern moonshiner in a new film titled Gator. The half-clad lady bending backward to please him is Actress-Model Lauren Hutton, playing an investigative reporter who falls into Burt's clutches. The movie, which is due for release next year, gives Reynolds his first chance to direct, and Co-Star Hutton, at least, says he did all right. "He was able to accept ideas from the actors; he even accepted some of mine," she reports. And what about that love scene, Lauren? "I kept asking...
There is only one documented case of an alligator actually killing a person (last year in Florida). But the creatures have needle-sharp teeth, and the big ones can crunch a leg or arm off a grown man. Though the gator still tends to avoid people, warns Ted Joanen, a biologist with Louisiana's Wild Life and Fisheries Commission, "he domesticates quite easily and loses his fear of people...
Seriously, the South isn't all cheerleaders, good ole boys and Baptist deacons, as you so richly imply. There is a new generation of Southern adults that well know how to discern a gator from a stump. You know, we've seen a good many gators down here. We just stay home when Nixon brings his carpetbags to town...
...club will get plenty of practice when it heads for Florida over spring break. On the first weekend it will compete in the Gainesville "Gator Tournament," which McKinley says is "the biggest rugby event in the south...