Word: stroker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Movie Critic John Bloom) tells his readers where they can find what they want: nudity, sex and gore galore. Joe Bob's alltime favorite was The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but he also raved about Burt Reynolds' W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings. Reviewing the new Stroker Ace, a dreary bomb starring Reynolds and Loni Anderson, he found much to praise: "Five motor-vehicle chases. Eight crashes. No beasts. No breasts, but Loni comes close. One beer-joint brawl. One guy through a plate-glass window and into the swim pool. No kung fu. No plot...
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This is the latest model of what might be termed the Burt Reynolds Formula One Vehicle. The sometime bandit is a respectable NASCAR driver in Stroker Ace. That means that the skids and scrapes in which he defies death without losing his good-ole-boy aplomb take place on such premises as the Daytona 500 race track. He is also amiably mystified to find himself drawn to a woman (Loni Anderson) who is as tenacious in defense of her virginity as he is in pursuit of a championship. That, however, completes the list of the film's novelties...
...additional paycheck in the uptown neighborhood of $ 15 million. His first project, The Charlie Parker Story, based on the life of the great jazz saxophonist, is due to start shooting in October. It will be followed by Double Whoopee, reuniting Pryor with Funnyman Gene Wilder. The poolroom "stroker from Peoria," as he used to call himself, is finally in a perfect position to run the table...
Doubles--1. Evans-Schulman (H) d. Sugar Honig, 6-0, 6-0, 2. Kate McCalf-Nancy Stroker (B)d. Pe-Kaufman, 3-6, del. 3. Brown won by default...