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By SHOT GARRICK
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It's the beginning of the summer and time oncc
again for the new Burt Reynolds movie. Right on
schedule, The End has hit theatres nationwide, but
this time there is a slight alteration from the usual
Burt Reynolds genre.
The End features Burt as a man dying of tuberculosis
and determined to go "in a respectable way."
Determined not to end up wired to a grotesque array
of life sustaining devices, he decides to take his own
life. It's not exactly the usual Burt Reynolds plot, and
the movie is absent of most of the usual Burt
Reynolds "goodies." There are no 18-wheelers,
sawed-off shotguns, wild-eyed country girls,
homemade whiskey stills or alligator?. There is,
however, a wild-eyed maniac played by the much
underrated Dom DeLuise.
If Dom DeLuise and Burt Reynolds sound like a
strange combination, they are. The team is the oddest
couple since Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. The
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impish, fiendish glares and toothy grins give positive
credence to his portrayal of a crazed schizoid with
mani depressive tendencies. DeLuise, without any
doubt, has all the good lines in the movie.4'People say
I murdered my father because he was too harsh to
me," says DeLuise early in the movie. "Actually, I
killed him because he was too Polish!"
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