A Few Words on Leslie Nielsen
When I was little, I was the only kid in the world who would ride around the neighborhood on my bike pretending to be Frank Drebin. I even hummed the Police Squad! theme song for added effect. Frank was a hero. He was a tough cop who always got the girl, but I think what really appealed to me at that age was his ability to be a complete buffoon so gracefully. He didn’t even care.
I grew up watching Leslie Nielsen play the same part in other movies, but like most people, I didn’t care. I was so enchanted with the man in any role, that it didn’t matter if it was mostly the same role or not. What mattered was that Nielsen was a genius at what he was doing, and that was making us laugh.
I didn’t plan to post this today, and honestly, I’m heartbroken to do so. On behalf of comedy fans all of the world, we’ll miss you, Mr. Nielsen.
November 29th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
He was a huge part of our childhood, seriously. I think we wore our Naked Gun VHS tapes out, man.
He was, and still is, hilarious. I almost always reference one of millions of comedic bits he had, like the baseball scene in the first Naked Gun flick. Cant watch/talk about baseball without thinking about him calling strike. haha.
Definitely will be missed–glad media outlets are giving his death the attention he deserves.
November 29th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
From E! Online…
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b213282_five_things_we_loved_about_leslie.html?cmpid=sn-000000-twitterfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=twitterfeed&utm_campaign=twitterfeed_topstories
November 30th, 2010 at 12:58 am
Well said, Logan. He will, indeed, be missed.
December 2nd, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Finally maybe the comment will post correctly!
This is very sad news. What a great actor.
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:58 pm
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