After 146 years, the curtain is coming down on "The Greatest Show on
Earth." The owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus told
The Associated Press that the show will close forever in May.

The company broke the news to circus employees Saturday night after
shows in Orlando and Miami.

Burt Reynolds with one of his cars to go up for auction.

(FoxNews) – The man with what seems to be an endless store of Pontiac Firebird
Trans Ams modeled like the one in the 1977 hit movie “Smokey and the Bandit,”
Burt Reynolds, the Bandit himself, will be present for the auction of a 1978
example at the upcoming Barrett Jackson event in Scottsdale, Arizona.

This will be Reynolds’ fourth Bandit-style Trans Am going under the hammer in
recent years. The phenomenon kicked off in 2014 when an original “Smokey
and the Bandit” promo car sold for $450,000. It was followed a year later by
the sale of a “tribute” car owned by Reynolds for only a year for $170,000 and
finally in 2016 the actor brought out another movie promo car that ended up
fetching $550,000.

1977  (Burt will be 81 February 11)

ROSS SIMPSON

President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill during a conference at Casablanca, Morocco
in 1943.

Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in Bascom, Florida.

Actress Faye Dunaway received an Academy Award for Best
Actress for her role as Diana Christensen in the 1976 film
“Network”. She also received praise for her roles in the 1967
heist film “Bonnie and Clyde” and the 1974 suspense film
“Chinatown”. She graduated with a degree in theater from
the University of Florida.