Checkered Flag or Crash promoter Bo Cochran (Hagman) wants the race completed by any means necessary. Checkered Flag or Crash Checkered Flag or Crash is a 1977 American adventure comedy film about off-road racing through the Philippines jungle, starring Joe Don Baker and Susan Sarandon and featuring Larry Hagman, Alan Vint and Parnelli Jones. It was written by Michael Allin and directed by Alan Gibson. Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden (Baker), nicknamed that because of his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright (Sarandon) intends to ride with him in
Shauna Glenn Shauna Glenn Shauna Glenn (born March 2, 1970) is an American author, who published her first book – "Heaping Spoonful" – in July 2008. Glenn has written two other books, including "Relative Insanity," which is due out later in 2009. Shauna Glenn was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and still resides there today. She attended Boswell High School and graduated in 1988. She spent three years at Baylor University, before returning to Fort Worth to work in the family business. Glenn started writing her first book in 2002. In 2006, Glenn began writing a freelance column for "Fort Worth, Texas: