Maybe Chuck believes passing gas on TV news morning shows and CNN's Larry King Live is the exclusive domain of me. Nielsen once farted on a live morning TV show:
Airplane and Naked Gun producers, the Zucker brothers' tribute to Leslie:
A Cliffs Notes of Naked Gun hilarity:
H/t Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times More clips including Nielsen's Ben Hur audition. The Hollywood Reporter NYDN: Quotable Frank Drebin NYDN Nielsen clips
Watch the trailer from the first in the Naked Gun trilogy where Lt. Frank Drebin's bumbling sidekick Nordberg is billed as "O.J. Simpson like you've never seen him before." And never again.
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Leslie Nielsen was also great in Creepshow, Prom Night and one of my favorite science fiction movies of all time, "Forbidden Planet". Surely he will be missed by all...
ReplyDeleteI met him in 1984 at The George Lindsey Fund Raiser in Montgomery AL. It was just he, my wife and me for about 10 minutes. No one was talking with him. A real nice guy. Not pretentious as some of the other celebs were. I told him I loved "Police Squad" and wished they would bring it back on TV. He told us they were thinking about maybe making it into a movie. I have a picture of him with my son.
ReplyDeleteRemember the scene in The Naked Gun when he breaks the penis off the statute and points it at the woman in her apartment? It had me in tears. And his line to Priscilla Presley, "Oh, and all those orgasm I had, I faked them.
RIP Leslie
I met him at his book signing somewhere and gave him a screenplay my co-writer in Detroit, Carla O'Neill, and I had written in 1992 or something. GORKY ON THE POTOMAC. A comedy. We thought he'd be great for the lead. Nice man. Classically trained actor who found his comedy niche thanks to the Zucker brothers.
ReplyDeleteI hope they bury him with one of his favorite possessions: a whoopee cushion (seriously).
ReplyDeleteAnd maybe with a nice beaver.
Marty - You are a ringer for Prisilla Presley.
ReplyDeleteWho will ever replace all these funny guys who could make you laugh without uttering the F-Bomb every 15 seconds?
ReplyDeleteYes, Marty is a dead ringer for Priscilla Presley, and that may be why she was able to stun Leslie Nielsen into accepting a copy of our screenplay (a comedy with a not so comedic title) "Gorky on the Potomac".
ReplyDeleteSince Marty won't tell the story, I will.
It was in the early 1990's, and in a scene that could have been straight out of one of Nielsen's movies, Marty stood in a very long line at a D.C. bookstore, where Leslie Nielsen was signing copies of his newly-published golf parody book. Marty, being the golf lover she is (NOT), actually bought a copy of his book, and after getting his signature, gave him our screenplay.
How could he resist?
That's chutzpah.
Carla: The Priscilla Presley resemblance has followed me around since the Naked Gun movies. I actually was buttonholed at Nordstrom (Tysons or Pentagon City) by someone who wouldn't believe I wasn't Priscilla Presley. I think my looks have changed away from Priscilla. Certainly HER looks (the massive disastrous plastic surgery and tundra frozen Botox) have permanently altered her loveliness. Why do people ruin themselves, I ask you?
ReplyDeleteThe old, pre-surgery Priscilla. See above.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the old PP did indeed look like Marty. The new one looks more like someone who's had an enema with a vacuum cleaner.
ReplyDeleteI can't prove it, but it seems Priscilla Presley's descent into plastic surgery hell began during her brief stint as mother-in-law of Michael Jackson. Maybe they used the same plastic surgeon...
ReplyDeleteAnother one gone my husband use ti love to watch
ReplyDeleteWho will ever replace all these funny guys who could make you laugh without uttering the F-Bomb every 15 seconds?
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