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Cliff Glitchard
from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2010-11-29 02:29 [#02399561]
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Canadian actor and comedian Leslie Nielsen has died at age 84.
Nielsen died of pneumonia at about 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. The Regina native was admitted to a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 12 days before his death.
“It’s very sad,” said Doug Nielsen, nephew of the famous funnyman. “But he died peacefully, surrounded by his friends, his family and his wife.”
He made his mark as a comedian with a breakout role in the film parody Airplane! and again with the 1980s trilogy The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and The Naked Gun 33 1/3, all of which were based on his six-episode television series Police Squad!
At one point in Airplane! Nielsen’s character is asked: “Surely, you can’t be serious?” to which the actor replied (with deadpan expression): “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” This line became among the most memorable of Nielsen’s career and made it on the American Film Institute’s list of top 100 movie quotes.
Nielsen was the recipient of a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Canada’s Walk of Fame.
He had been living in Florida at the time of his death.
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IronLung
from the 91fwy in soCAL (United States) on 2010-11-29 02:35 [#02399562]
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RIP
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freqy
on 2010-11-29 03:06 [#02399563]
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: ) a very funny scene I remember... when he is hanging outside of a tall buildings ledge at night, so scared to fall to the city street below, hanging onto (of all things) a statues private parts, moaning at the stress and fear of the situation. Then a woman looks out of her window and naturally just thinks he is a raving pervert after her body trying to look into her apartment , so she starts kicking him off the building.
what film was that off? naked gun?
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jnasato
from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2010-11-29 04:43 [#02399564]
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RIP
Man gave me many hard/deep laughs. Thank you Leslie.
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olaabaza
from Mauritius on 2010-11-29 07:02 [#02399566]
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RIP indeed. He was fantastic.
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cwnt
on 2010-11-29 07:08 [#02399569]
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Song they should play at his funeral
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Monoid
from one source all things depend on 2010-11-29 07:24 [#02399571]
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First Bill Cosby and now Leslie Nielsen. Rip funnymen.
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Fractal
from New Metropolis (Slovakia) on 2010-11-29 10:01 [#02399573]
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R. I. P. Frank Drebin :9(
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-crazone
from smashing acid over and over on 2010-11-29 11:50 [#02399576]
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RIP Leslie..
Bill still lives
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rad smiles
on 2010-11-29 13:00 [#02399577]
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driving around in reverse always made me smile.
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big
from lsg on 2010-11-29 13:15 [#02399579]
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also rip Forbidden Planet guy
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chassis
from the bottom of a pint glass (Heard and McDonald Islands) on 2010-11-29 14:09 [#02399580]
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Also RIP Irvin Kershner.
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nightex
from Šiauliai (Lithuania) on 2010-11-29 14:39 [#02399581]
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Also rip Dino De Laurentiis
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dingle berry
from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2010-11-29 21:01 [#02399601]
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they could also lay that boc geoggadi track! rip dude!
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larn
from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2010-11-29 21:07 [#02399602]
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thanks for the great comedy RIP
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dingle berry
from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2010-11-29 21:16 [#02399604]
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good ol lezzer
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Monoid
from one source all things depend on 2010-11-29 23:30 [#02399610]
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I know. This was a lame attempt at a joke
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dingle berry
from on a small plastic chair breat (Haiti) on 2010-11-30 09:00 [#02399623]
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dead and loving it???
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Tussle Toss
from United States on 2017-05-21 03:45 [#02520228]
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airplane
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