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directed by Adrian Buitenhuis, traces Reynolds’ storied Hollywood career — he was, in the 1970s, the world’s biggest movie star and sex symbol — from his early television roles to his breakout movies (“Deliverance,” “The Longest Yard,” “Smokey and the Bandit”) to his romances, including his marriage to Loni Anderson and their headlining divorce.Reynolds, who also won an Emmy for the CBS sitcom “Evening Shade,” died in 2018 at the age of 82.“I Am Burt Reynolds” premieres Dec. 30 (8 p.m.) on The CW as the first installment of its “I Am Films” series.“Burt’s story is the thread of someone who had been around since old Hollywood and how [the industry] evolved through him,” Buitenhuis told The Post.

EXCLUSIVE: Chevy Chase (Community), Bruce Dern (Palm Royale) and Joey Lauren Adams (Greedy People) are set to topline CATnip, a thriller with comedic elements from writer-director Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Clean).

Grateful Dead‘s Jerry Garcia’s voice has been recreated with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for books, articles, PDFs and more.The late icon’s estate has partnered with ElevenLabs – an AI voice company and an app – to recreate Garcia’s voice and read out audiobooks, e-books, articles, poetry, fan stories, PDFs and more in 32 different languages.The former Grateful Dead guitarist, singer and songwriter is not the first artist to have their voice recreated by ElevenLabs. Garcia joins the likes of Judy Garland, James Dean, Burt Reynolds and Sir Laurence Olivier who have all had their voices transfigured on the app.Speaking to Billboard, a company spokesperson said ElevenLabs worked “in close collaboration with the Jerry Garcia Estate to ensure that the reproduction of Garcia’s voice was as authentic and true to his legacy as possible.”Dustin Blank, Head of Partnerships at ElevenLabs, added: “At ElevenLabs, we’re committed to preserving and celebrating cultural legacies while pushing the boundaries of technology.

Emiliana Betancourt The late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s estate has recreated his voice using AI in partnership with Eleven Labs. The singer-songwriter’s voice can now read to ElevenReader app users their choice of audiobooks, articles, poetry, PDFs, and more through what Eleven calls the Iconic Listening Experience, Billboard reported. Garcia’s voice is available in 32 different languages.

“Boogie Nights” rolled around in 1997.“I grew up in a religious family, and they were like, ‘Don’t do anything with any sexual content,'” Graham recently shared on the “Inside of You” podcast with actor Michael Rosenbaum. “But try to be a woman in Hollywood in your early 20s, mid-20s, and then to try to get no roles with any sexual content, it’s like impossible.”At the time, Graham says her agent encouraged her to take the job, one that would have her playing a porn star.“I had turned down a few things where there was sexual content, and then I saw other people having really good careers,” Graham continued. “I just said, ‘Screw it.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Deepak Chopra, the world-renowned author and health and wellness expert, has teamed with AI firm ElevenLabs to add his pipes to the company’s roster of notable voices available for audio streaming of books, articles and other written materials. Chopra’s voice pact with ElevenLabs stemmed from the “Digital Deepak” chatbot app that he launched with the company in June. The bot is trained in Chopak’s more than 90 books and numerous public appearances in order to allow people to ask him specific questions and get responses delivered back in Chopra’s synthetic voice.

An upcoming Netflix film is based on a shocking 'true' story involving a series of horrific crimes.

, is at it again. This time with less trolling and more thirsting.On July 2, Hugh Jackman posted a BTS pic of a flexing, white tank wearing, smirking Reynolds in a hotel room. Jackman lightly roasted his Deadpool & Wolverine costar in the caption, writing, “'You want me to put this away?' — Ryan Reynolds, co-star, mouth breather, asshole.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Instead of joining in with a sick burn of her own in the comments, Lively chimed in with simple appreciation for her husband's hotness.

Dan Wakefield, a prolific author and journalist who made television history when he created and wrote the controversial late-1970s drama James at 15 only to resign when NBC executives bristled over an episode’s depiction of teenage sexuality, died yesterday at a hospice facility in Miami. He was 91, and had been in declining health in recent months.

Ability Magazine, Reeve increased his weight by 30 pounds and added four inches to his chest and three inches to his biceps during his training for “Superman.” He also increased his bench press from 100 pounds to 350. Reeve’s first trainer was David Prowse, who played the role of Darth Vader for the entirety of the original “Star Wars” trilogy.A 1978 “behind the scenes” video feature said that at first, “Superman producers” considered him “too young, and maybe even too skinny” for the role. Before landing on the then-unknown Reeve, producers reportedly considered bigger stars for the lead, including Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone and Caitlyn Jenner (who was then Bruce).

Toothless Man in “Deliverance,” has died at the age of 85. Coward was killed in a car accident, according to local news outlets WLOS and FOX Carolina, citing North Carolina State Highway Patrol officials. He died on Wednesday in Haywood County, NC, when his Nissan, which was exiting a parking lot, was hit by a pickup truck driven by a 16-year-old.

Deliverance, has died.The 85-year-old was killed in a car crash on Wednesday alongside his passenger and girlfriend, Bertha Brooks, who was 78.The collision happened in Haywood County, North Carolina, and also caused the death of Coward’s pet Chihuahua dog and pet squirrel.According to People, the actor was turning onto the highway when he was hit by an oncoming vehicle, a truck driven by a 16-year-old, who was subsequently taken to hospital.Authorities reported that neither Coward nor Brooks were wearing seatbelts, and that the other driver was apparently not speeding.Coward’s most memorable role was in John Boorman’s thriller, Deliverance, starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox.His memorable role as ‘Toothless Man’, one of two sadistic mountain men in the movie, involved a disturbing assault scene with Voight and Beatty’s characters.It became the fifth-highest grossing film of 1972, and was nominated for three Oscars, three BAFTAs and five Golden Globe Awards.In 2018, the year before his death, Reynolds revealed that he recommended Coward for the role. He told Conan O’Brien: “John Boorman, an Irish director, the best director I ever had, said, ‘Where am I gonna find these guys … the Mountain Men?’ And I said, ‘I know a guy.

Herbert “Cowboy” Coward, the sometime actor and pal of Burt Reynolds who played one of the two scary, sadistic mountain men in John Boorman’s Deliverance, died Wednesday in a car crash in North Carolina. He was 85.

50 Oscar Nights Out,” according to People.Hollywood hunk Reynolds and Field, who met on the set of 1977’s blockbuster movie “Smokey and the Bandit,” dated for five years in the late ’70s and early ’80s.They were one of the era’s power couples and made four movies together before splitting in 1982.Still, Reynolds, who shot to fame in the 1972 movie “Deliverance” and was a major sex symbol, was jealous of Field’s career.According to “50 Oscar Nights Out,” he told Field he would not accompany her to the 52nd Academy Awards ceremony in LA — and didn’t want her to go to the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie was being screened.“He said, ‘You don’t think you’re going to win anything, do you?’ ” Field claims in the book.“When the Oscars came around, he really was not a nice guy around me then and was not going to go with me,” Field adds.She was at her wits’ end about not having a date to the highest-profile showbiz night of the year, she said, when her pal, comedian David Steinberg, came to the rescue.“Then David said, ‘Well, for God’s sake, we’ll take you,’ ” she says. “He and [his wife] Judy made it a big celebration.

Saga Exceptional, after being asked about the wildest things she’s heard about herself in the media. “I’ve heard so many crazy rumors about me through the years,” she began.

Mort Engelberg, a producer of the films Smokey And The Bandit and The Big Easy, has passed away. Engelberg was 86, and he died in Los Angeles in the company of his wife, Helaine Blatt, a success herself as a high-end jewelry broker.

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterOscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal, who came to prominence on TV’s “Peyton Place” and became a top star of the 1970s in films including “Love Story,” “What’s Up, Doc?,” “Paper Moon” and “Barry Lyndon,” died Friday, his son Patrick said on Instagram. He was 82.He was diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 2001 and with prostate cancer in 2012.“Ryan was a very generous man who has always been there to help his loved ones for decade upon decade,” said Patrick O’Neal’s post, “My dad was 82, and lived a kick ass life.

Valerie Wu Intern Conny Van Dyke, a singer-songwriter signed to Motown Records who starred in such films as “W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings” and “Framed,” has died. She was 78.

Randee Dawn When “Extra” interviewed Harrison Ford at his “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” premiere in June, the show was proceeding as usual: The actor, the reporter, the branded microphone, the cameras. Then suddenly everything changed — “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar-winner Ke Huy Quan bounded into the frame and reunited with his co-star from 1984’s “Temple of Doom.” The moment went viral, and “Extra” had another feather in its cap. Once in a lifetime get? Not if you’re “Extra.” For the past 30 years, the syndicated entertainment news show has made its business chronicling every cultural event.

Richard Roundtree, who broke ground with his signature role in the Shaft movie franchise, passed away this afternoon, Oct. 24, after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer with his family at his bedside. He was 81.

Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds and Ice-T starred in a low-budget movie called Crazy Six in 1997. The movie, which told the story of powerful mafia families vying for control of the arms trade, was written by Galen Yuen, who is the focus of a new original podcast series for Apple.