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| "Stop calling me Shirley" | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 28 2010, 07:31 PM (226 Views) | |
| George K | Nov 28 2010, 07:31 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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Rest in Peace, Leslie Nielsen. Leslie Nielsen, who made audiences laugh with his ridiculous seriousness and deadpan deliveries in the absurd scenes of comedy films like Airplane! and The Naked Gun has died. He was 84. His agent confirmed that the actor died Sunday near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., surrounded by his "lovely wife and friends" at 5:34 p.m. ET, due to complications of pneumonia. Nielsen had been hospitalized for nearly two weeks as a result of pneumonia, his agent said. "Just in this last 48 hours, the infection has gotten too much," his nephew Doug Nielsen told Canadian radio station CKNW. "He just fell asleep and passed away." ![]() ![]() Edited by George K, Nov 28 2010, 07:36 PM.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Larry | Nov 28 2010, 07:38 PM Post #2 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Sad. He shirley did make me laugh... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| Larry | Nov 28 2010, 07:40 PM Post #3 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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And I don't know who the girl is in the second picture, but I'd like to get in a time machine and go back to then and touch her all over and give her babies.. |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| sue | Nov 28 2010, 09:15 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Oh no. Ah crap. |
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| ivorythumper | Nov 28 2010, 09:24 PM Post #5 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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A comic genius. Rest in peace. |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| jon-nyc | Nov 29 2010, 02:10 AM Post #6 |
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Cheers
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WHat IT said. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Luke's Dad | Nov 29 2010, 06:37 AM Post #7 |
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Emperor Pengin
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This saddens me greatly. In an industry where so many try so desperately to not be "stereotyped", taken seriously, and not be associated with only one or two roles, here was a guy that was originally a serious actor and a fairly successful one, was given a role in Airplane specifically because he was a serious actor (watch the makings of for Airplane sometime, it's a fascinating story), who was so brilliant at the deadpan comedic role that he became king of the genre. Did he try to escape from it? Did he go do Shakespear in the Park for a couple of seasons? No. He went with it, and made a bunch of people laugh for a while. Overall, a much more worthwhile endeavor than anything the most "acclaimed" actors, directors, and writers in Hollywood have done over the past couple of decades. Nice beaver, Frank. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| George K | Nov 29 2010, 07:18 PM Post #8 |
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Finally
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http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2010/11/and-dont-ever-call-me-shirley.html
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Nov 30 2010, 02:56 AM Post #9 |
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Cheers
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I once heard him say that they had offered him a percentage for Ariplane but he turned it down (for a fixed amount). He was still kicking himself for that years later. |
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| Frank_W | Nov 30 2010, 06:05 AM Post #10 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Dang... Well, at least we still have Tom Cruise.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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