Appreciation: So long, Bandit. They just don't make 'em like Burt Reynolds anymore
His laugh is what I remember most. Burt Reynolds laughed like your kid sister - a full-bore, coyote-throated cackle.
I can still hear him on those old "Tonight Show" appearances, pounding the desk and clucking at some double-take from Johnny Carson or Dom DeLuise. That great laugh seems to echo across the landscape, in these first days after Reynolds' death Thursday at age 82.
Early in his career, Reynolds wore skinny jeans, cowboy boots and a twinkling
