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'Cletus Hogg'
Has Chased
After His Last
General Lee

OBITUARY

Jun 27, 2025 2:25 PM CDT

'Cletus Hogg' Has Chased After His Last General Lee

Rick Hurst, who played slightly dopey deputy on Dukes of Hazzard , dies at 79

(Newser) - For a while during the era when Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were president, Rick Hurst was a household name, playing Deputy Cletus Hogg on the popular '80s action-comedy series Dukes of Hazzard, per ABC7 . He wasn't quite as well known in his later years, but the tributes...

Bubba Watson: I'm Painting Over the General Lee

Jul 3, 2015 10:49 AM CDT

Bubba Watson: I'm Painting Over the General Lee

Golfer to paint American flag over Confederate flag on 'Dukes of Hazzard' car

(Newser) - One of the casualties in the Confederate flag controversy has been The Dukes of Hazzard. First TV Land pulled reruns of the early-'80s show from its lineup, and now golfer Bubba Watson, who bought the General Lee at auction in 2012, says he's giving it a new paint...

TV Land Shelves
Dukes of Hazzard

Jul 1, 2015 6:44 PM CDT

TV Land Shelves Dukes of Hazzard

The General Lee's Confederate flag may be too controversial

(Newser) - The controversy over the Confederate flag appears to have caught up with the Dukes of Hazzard. TV Land has stopped airing reruns of the show without explanation, reports Entertainment Weekly . The reason, however, seems clear enough: the Confederate flag atop the dukes' beloved Dodge Charger, the General Lee. Before the...

16 Awful TV Spinoffs

Jul 31, 2010 3:20 PM CDT

16 Awful TV Spinoffs

Joanie Loves Chachi, but this list doesn't

(Newser) - PopCrunch rounds up 16 of the worst TV spinoffs of all time: Here's a sampling:

Joanie Loves Chachi: "A mewling stillborn abomination that starred two people who obviously hated each other." Happy Days deserved better.
Galactica 1980: Bad acting and a lame plot doomed this spinoff of the

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Hathaway's
New Man a
Bad Seed, Too

Nov 19, 2008 3:05 PM CST

Hathaway's New Man a Bad Seed, Too

Shulman an 'opportunist,' actress 'addicted to losers:' source

(Newser) - Anne Hathaway has a “sexy” new man, and he’s no high-flying fraudster like her now-in-prison ex, but they may share a quality. Still-struggling actor Adam Shulman is an “opportunist,” a source tells the New York Post. “When he was at Brown [University], he went after...