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Jenkins' good ole boy heroes are just the same. Billy Clyde Puckett (Burt Reynolds) is still a natively shrewd running back with a gift for putting on people who think they're smarter than he is because they don't talk in a Southwest Conference drawl. His roommate and lifelong good buddy, Shake Tiller (Kris Kristofferson), is still a sticky-fingered end and an earnest naïf. They are still involved, more as pals than as lovers (though that, in time, develops) with Barbara Jane Bookman (Jill Clayburgh). She is a version of that most delicious...
...muscle while playing Shake Tiller, a good ole boy and pass-catchin' end in the movie being made from Dan Jenkins' novel Semi-Tough. Burt Reynolds, a onetime running back for Florida State, is cast as Shake's pal, the hard-drinking, womanizing hero, Billy Clyde Puckett. During the filming in Dallas Reynolds was constantly surrounded by groupies. What to do? Taking a tip from Puckett, he claims he "got 'em upstairs as quick as possible...
...committee of 20 prominent businessmen, including Charles F. Adams, chairman of the board of Raytheon Company, Joseph P. Downer, executive vice president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., Allen E. Puckett, vice president of Hughes Aircraft Co., and Donald H. McLaughlin, chairman of the Executive Committee of Homestake Mining Company, have formed the national committee to raise money for the center which will utilize their extensive contacts in the business community...
VIRGINIA'S M. CALDWELL BUTLER, the lone Southern Republican who voted for impeachment, should survive handily. No matter how angry diehard Nixon supporters may be in his Sixth District, they have no place else to go. Butler's Democratic opponent, Roanoke Sheriff Paul Puckett, has been attacking the G.O.P. Congressman for foot dragging on impeachment. The Roanoke Times reports that letters are running about 3 to 2 against Butler, but the mail flow is very light. Most important, Butler had the foresight to prepare his constituents for the impeachment process. Says Charles McDowell, Washington correspondent and columnist...
Affluence has its price, of course. "The odor is terrible," complains Mrs. Jean Puckett, who has wells and burn-offs to either side of her one-acre lot. "It's just like leaving on a gas stove without lighting it." Lon Whaley, who has two of the natural gas burn-offs lighting up his front yard like the county fairgrounds, has difficulty getting to sleep at night. And Noah Blevins worries about the landscape: "It 'bout made me sick to see them drillin' and tearin' up what I spent all my life buildin...