I was watching Airplane on DVD last night and I enabled the commentary. Graves said that he thought shooting on the film would end when he uttered the line, “Have you seen a man naked?”
There's a DVD with commentary?! I have to run out and buy/rent it!
Graves said that he thought shooting on the film would end when he uttered the line, “Have you seen a man naked?”
Was it in the script? I've heard that the studio interfered in the movie production, but why was he worried they'd shut down filming after that line?
One thing I read (but am not sure it's confirmed) was that the Zucker brothers wanted to use a prop plane in the exterior shot -- a homage to Zero Hour (their inspiration for Airplane!). The studio refused, so they dubbed in the sound of a prop plane for every exterior shot.
Eh?
Was it an ad-lib?
He also hosted the AandE Biography series for several seasons, about 20 years ago. Back when the biographies were educational - historical or political figures - or respected achievers who made a contribution to the world. Not the celebrity fluff the Biography show eventually degenerated into.