Brock Yates Dead: 'Cannonball Run' Screenwriter Was 82

The automotive journalist created the cross-country event on which the film is based and penned the script for another Burt Reynolds film, 'Smokey and the Bandit II.'

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Brock Yates dies; wrote hit film 'The Cannonball Run