Posted on 11/28/2010 9:23:46 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
Leslie Nielsen, who traded in his dramatic persona for inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in "Airplane!" and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" comedies, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.
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Surely, he will be missed.
( Ghost of Nielsen ) “Thanks, and Don’t call me Shirley “
RIP, Leslie...you'll be missed.
Yes, he will be missed, but all of these threads about his passing won’t. This is about the eighth one I’ve seen tonight.
Shirley you can’t be serious!
Rest in Peace Officer Dreben
Nielsen is a part of FR lore, Airplane! has to be one of the most quoted movies here.
One of my favorite all-time comedic actors. Thanks, Frank!
I know. I very much enjoyed his work in the movies, too. But c'mon. Eight threads over the course of one evening? It's a bit much. One would suffice.
Sorry. I searched his name and did some rooting around on FR before posting. I thought I had the scoop.
“Doctors say that Nordberg has a 50/50 chance of living, though there’s only a 10 percent chance of that.” -Frank Drebin
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000558/
May he RIP... I will miss him.
May he RIP! One of the funniest talents in Hollywood.
A quote from the Naked Gun:
“Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Girl gets killed in a tragic blimp accident...”
In addition to yours, these were all posted since about 8PM CST tonight:
This just in: Leslie Nielsen is still dead !
Actor Leslie Nielsen dies of complications from pneumonia
Those were all in the first two pages of News/Activism (as of this posting).
I know that articles sometimes get posted multiple times, but this story has been posted way too many times for one night.
Alrighty....rant off.
RIP sir
That's the breaks in such a forum as ours where a celeb is so popular with many of us. I did not make a separate post but rather am commenting only here. My first exposure to Leslie Nielson was the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. Anne Francis was the eye candy and the symbol of innocence; the great Walter Pidgeon presided as the accomplished albeit hubritic Dr Morbius. Nielson's most memorable quotes from that flick are "This is the Captain speaking" and "That is all."
This is the first I knew about his passing.
Prayers.
I know. My rant is over.
I don't know anyone who didn't like Leslie Nielsen. The man was a gem of the comedy genre, and will be missed.
Heh....normally, I’m the last person to complain about duplicate postings. It’s often been the case that the first time I see a story, it’s already been posted a couple of times.
I just thought that so many postings of the Leslie Nielsen story in such a short period of time was just overkill. It’s not like folks aren’t going to see this on the news or hear it on radio all day tomorrow.
On the other hand, some news items that are posted here are so important, that it’s helpful when they’re posted multiple times.
That is all.
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