The couple named him Buford after Buford T. Justice, the sheriff in the film "Smokey and the Bandit." "He's by far the coolest dog we've had," Scotty said. Buford was a good puppy. He only ...

It was two years after Burt Reynolds and Sally Field starred in the box office hit, “Smokey and the Bandit.” “Navigating fame at 18 years old was quite a trick,” Schneider admitted.

While the Smokey and the Bandit frontman’s star faded throughout the decade, that pair continued making profitable films into the 2020s. By his own admission, Reynolds was stuck in a predicament of ...