When Brinkley asked Carter what the appeal of Georgia was for Hollywood, his response was swift. “We would do anything for them,” he said. “For instance, when [producers] wanted to make The Longest Yard, we turned over the Regional State Prison. And they wanted a football field. They wanted a fence put up, and we got Coca-Cola to put up old-fashioned advertisements around the football field. They wanted a 1932 gray pickup truck, a Ford, and we put an ad in the papers in Georgia and located a gray 1932 pickup truck. They wanted a place for Burt Reynolds to stay, so we talked to the prison warden, who said, ‘You can have my house,’ and the warden moved into a motel. They bought new furniture, and Burt Reynolds stayed in the warden’s house.”
