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Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach
April 10th, 2011 | 
Author: Great times… Chevrolet Fireball Run @ Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach!
Posted in (2) ON THE RUN® with ANNOUNCER RON SEGGI | 
Tags: amazing race, Barrett-Jackson, bull run, chevrolet, fireball run, gumball rally, road race, road rally | 
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FIREBALL RUN THE MOVIE WINS SILVER TELLY Fireball Run Adventurally Announces Big Win At 32nd Annual Telly Awards
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS ORLANDO, Florida– Producers of the Fireball Run Adventurally announce its documentary short, FIREBALL RUN the Movie, wins its category at the 32nd Annual Telly Awards.
NOT a road race, the FIREBALL RUN Adventurally is a live action, eight day, and rolling motion picture. While competing in series of challenges embracing points of interest, road side America, as well as geographical location, teams participate in a massive recovery effort for missing and exploited children.
The Fireball Run’s cause-related effort called, the Race to Recover America’s Missing Children, is the largest active recovery effort for missing and exploited children in the country. Every team is assigned a missing child from their home region along with thousands of posters to distribute along the route. A decal featuring the child is affixed to the vehicle, creating a rolling milk carton. To date, the effort has assisted in the recovery of 36 missing children. “All of us take this effort very seriously,” says Fireball Run Announcer and legendary radio personality Ron Seggi, “It’s fun, it’s a competition, but it’s also about compassion.”
The Telly winning 30 minute documentary short was screened to a sellout crowd at the Orlando Film Festival in 2010. The production was lauded as both intense and passionate by entertainment industry elite. “Winning a Silver Telly was unexpected,” said J Sanchez, the Executive Producer “Every year we film the live action road rally competition in the hopes of it someday becoming a true-to-reality television series. Last year we decided to bite the bullet and invest in producing a documentary short to see what happens,” J further explained “We only submitted one time, under a single category. None of us anticipated winning. Today the Telly, tomorrow the Emmy. Someday.”
The live action annual event known as the Chevrolet Fireball Run Adventurally is a challenging 2500 mile interactive game; America is the game board. The teams are simply pawns in the game. Several celebrities and notables have entered the competition since its inception in 2007 ranging from 2007 Fireball Run Winners actor Jeffrey Donovan and Stunt Coordinator Artie Malesci, to World Drag Champion Harold Laird, Lamborghini legend Valentino Balboni, NASCAR legend Geoff Bodine, Astronaut Winston Scott, even the winners from the Amazing Race television series.
Nearly 50 teams adventure roughly 3,500 miles in 8 days, driving everything from Camaro’s to Corvettes, Lamborghini’s to Land Rover’s, even the Time Car from Back to the Future II, K.I.T.T, a Model T, and the police car from the Andy Griffith Show. Along the way they solve clues and complete challenges to earn points, in addition to various motorsport challenges.
The Fireball Run Adventurally, sponsored by Barrett-Jackson Auctions LLC, LuxuryLifestyle.com, O’Donnell Corp, and RedBird Printing, and Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka is a national event and production is headquartered at NBC UNIVERSAL Studios in Orlando Florida. The safe yet mentally challenging rally is welcomed by area law enforcement in each host destination.
The 2011 Chevrolet Fireball Run Adventurally starts September 23rd on Florida’s Space Coast and concludes October 1st in the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The event encourages the public to come out, get autographs, and show their support. The production is filmed and available on DVD.
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To learn more about the Fireball Run or to schedule an interview, please email media@fireballrun.com
R.I.P. “@ THE MOVIES” (1982-2010)
“@ The Movies” has officially been cancelled.
In remembrance and tribute we post the following review by Roger Ebert (cir January 1, 1981)
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CANNONBALL was probably always intended as junk, as an easy exploitation picture. But it’s possible to bring some sense of style and humor even to grade-zilch material. This movie doesn’t even seem to be trying.
Burt Reynolds sleepwalks through a role he’s played several times before, but never so indifferently. He’s a hotshot driver in a big, illegal cross-country road race; first one to California wins. That means Reynolds gets to drink a lot of beer, talk like a good ol’ boy, and get in the middle of a lot of crashes and other stunts. The movie was directed by Hal Needham, a onetime stuntman who graduated to directing with SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT (1977), the first and still the best of the Burt Reynolds car-chase movies. After that, each Needham movie has been worse than the one preceding it. His downward spiral has included HOOPER, THE VILLAIN, and SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT II. Movie buffs will note that three of Needham’s four movies have starred Burt Reynolds, one of the most important properties in Hollywood. Reynolds is so popular he can make money in almost anythingÑa maxim that CANNONBALL RUN puts to the extreme test. Reynolds and Needham are friends, and indeed the whole cast of CANNONBALL seems to consider the movie a reunion. The film ends with outtakesÑspoiled shots during which somebody breaks up or says the wrong line or otherwise goofs. It’s supposed to show us how much fun everybody had. Alas, the outtakes don’t look much more goofy than the takes they intended to put in the movie; CANNONBALL assembles a giant cast around an absolutely minimal amount of screenplay, and allows them to kill time expensively. There’s not much plot and no suspense. The filmmakers’ excuse, no doubt, is that they were really making a comedy, not a road race picture. That would work if there were any laughs in the movie.
But just look at the cast. It’s like a cattle call. It’s like an Actor’s Guild picket line. It’s like Hollywood Squares on Wheels. Some of the actors are talented, some are not, but they look equally awful in this movie. At one time or another during this unspeakable experience, you can share it with not only Burt Reynolds but also Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom De Luise, Dean Martin (looking as if a big-a pizza pie hit him straight in the eye), Sammy Davis, Jr. (looking like a severe case of vitamin deficiency), Jack Elam, Adrienne Barbeau (whose role consists of unzipping her jump suit), Terry Bradshaw, Jackie Chan, Bert Convy, Jamie Farr, Peter Fonda (as an aging Hells Angel), Michael Hui, Bianca Jagger, Molly Picon, Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder, and Mel Tillis. This isn’t a cast, it’s the answer to a double acrostic.
Posted in (4) RANTS & RAVES |
Tags: adrienne barbeau, bert convy, bianca jagger, brock yates, bull run, burt reynolds, cannonball run, dean martin, dom de luise, farrah fawcett, fireball run, florida, gumball rally, hal needham, jack elam, jackie chan, jamie farr, jimmy the greek snyder, mel tillis, michael hui, molly picon, orlando, peter fonda, roger ebert, roger moore, terry bradshaw, universal studios |
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