R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen

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  • November 29, 2010 at 10:16 am #97429
    BlackKusanagi
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    Pneumonia has claimed another great.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oEA6zK_8u8&NR=1

    He was 84. 🙁

    November 29, 2010 at 11:17 am #97430
    FlakBait
    Keymaster

    Calm down everythings going to be alright
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    Not too many people can claim to have been in one of the greatest science fiction movies ever made and one of the greatest comedies. One of my favorite actors 🙁

    November 29, 2010 at 11:33 am #97431
    BlackKusanagi
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    Certainly one of Canada’s finest.

    November 29, 2010 at 12:50 pm #97432
    SammiChung
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    Hopefully he’s makin’ the big guy/girl upstairs laugh… surely he would wouldn’t he?

    November 29, 2010 at 3:28 pm #97433
    DevonCory
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    Well, not the kind of surprise I was hoping for this morning. 🙁 Sad to see him go.

    Cheers to you Leslie.

    November 29, 2010 at 8:24 pm #97434
    Danny
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    I know that at 84 years old the man was at his twilight but not once did he ever really act like it. He never really lost his energetic persona in the films he was in.

    my heart broke a little when I heard he died (T_T)

    November 29, 2010 at 9:19 pm #97435
    Ashlee
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    November 29, 2010 at 11:01 pm #97439
    TheGov
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    Zucker, Abrams and Zucker made a point of using “serious” actors in comedic roles, and Nielsen was perhaps the most adept of them. He will be missed.

    November 30, 2010 at 2:31 am #97445
    khuddle
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    From the movie Airplane:

    “Nielsen: Can you fly this plane, and land it?
    Ted Striker: Surely you can’t be serious.
    Nielsen: I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley.”

    For that line alone he’s pretty much immortalized 🙂

    November 30, 2010 at 3:37 am #97446
    Robert McNay
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    TheGov wrote:

    Zucker, Abrams and Zucker made a point of using “serious” actors in comedic roles, and Nielsen was perhaps the most adept of them. He will be missed.

    He was interviewed once and was asked about his comedic turn. He replied that, until now, he had always been cast against type. In another, he said that comedy was always what he really wanted to do.

    My favorite role of his is one of his dramatic ones, J.J. Adams, captain the starcruiser C57D in “Forbidden Planet”. I’ve read that some people credit the movie’s captain-first officer-doctor dynamic as being the inspiration for the Kirk-Spock-McCoty triumverate in Star Trek.

    Goodbye Leslie, thanks for all the entertainment.

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