Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty-five years ago, Cora the elephant shared screen time with movie star Burt Reynolds in the popular film, "Smokey and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aging Topeka Zoo elephant Cora, who appeared 45 years ago in a "Smokey and the Bandit" movie, is expected to get a visit June 9 ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - 18 years ago, fans of the film Smokey and the Bandit met to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the film and to re-enact the drive that Smokey took from Texarkana to Atlanta, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - For almost 20 years, fans of the movie Smokey and the Bandit, the 1977 Burt Reynolds classic, have been using their shared love of the film, and the car it features, to travel ...

Reynolds was Hollywood's biggest box office star from 1978 to 1982. A new book examines those years - and the work that came before and after - to argue that he was more varied in his range than even ...

Cora, a 66-year-old Asian elephant residing at the Topeka Zoo, starred as "Charlotte" in the 1980 film "Smokey and the Bandit II." Participants in "The Bandit Run," a yearly tribute to the "Smokey and ...