Nurhachi1991
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R.I.P. Eazy E
He was for 15 years till you brought up his sorry name...Nurhachi1991 said:R.I.P. Eazy E
Forbidden Eye said:I almost wanted to give this a thread of its own but...so long Leslie Nielsen!
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/11/28/comedy-legend-leslie-nielsen-dead/?test=latestnews
Hate to break it to you, Gonzo, but Leslie Nielsen was Canadian. He was in the Royal Canadian Air Force, his dad was a "mountie" in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his brother, Erik Nielsen, was Deputy Prime Minister of Canada (equivalent to Vice President)!Dr. Gonzo said:I put Leslie on the same pedestal as the other great american actors.
After his success with "Airplane" and (especially) the "Naked Gun" movies, it was kind of sad when he started doing TV commercials as a Frank Drebin-type character. He was once a actor in serious roles but most people these days know him as someone who played a bumbling fool. (That said, who else remembers the short-lived "Police Squad" TV series which was a spin-off of "The Naked Gun"?)WilliamBoyd8 said:Before he appeared in comedies like "Naked Gun" and "Airplane",
Leslie Nielsen appeared in "Tammy and the Bachelor" with Debbie Reynolds,
and "Forbidden Planet" with Anne Francis.
Stoo said:Hate to break it to you, Gonzo, but Leslie Nielsen was Canadian.
I do. Though you got this bass-ackwards. It was the series that came first.Stoo said:That said, who else remembers the short-lived "Police Squad" TV series which was a spin-off of "The Naked Gun"?
Finn said:I do. Though you got this bass-ackwards. It was the series that came first.
And I see nothing "sad" with Mr. Nielsen being remembered the way he is. It's exactly why he was and will be loved. As the sentiment dating back to Shakespearean days claims: "Drama is hard. Yet comedy is harder." And Leslie Nielsen, he was a master.
People ask me, "What would you like to be remembered by?" It really doesn't make any difference. I've done Airplane!, three Naked Guns, Wrongfully Accused, and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. The way I look at it, I've built my own little pyramid and it's gonna be around for as long as people have eyes to see.
In a 1988 interview with The New York Times, Leslie Nielsen discussed his career-rejuvenating transition to comedy, a development that he had recently described as ?too good to be true.?
?It?s been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type,? he said, ?and I?m finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.?
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