Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.And one more:
Jane: Goodyear?
Frank: No, the worst.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
SURELY YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS: But I am serious: comic actor Leslie Nielsen has died at the age of 84 of pneumonia-related complications. Few performers made such brilliant use of oblivious deadpan as a comic tool. Thank goodness the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team recognized it, so we could enjoy exchange after exchange like this one in The Naked Gun:
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Aw, that sucks. RIP, Lt. Drebbin.
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs to link us to a montage of the fake freeze-frames at the end of Police Story.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/v/A_3rJqHWYjs&feature" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="170" height="140
ReplyDelete"What's that smell?" "Oh, that would be me. I've been swimming in raw sewage. I love it!"
ReplyDeleteMeghan said it all. He will be missed.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up on Airplane! and watching my share of the Naked Gun series, and then coming to "classic" sci-fi rather later in life, I was stunned to find him in Forbidden Planet. I still expect that movie to be funny in a Naked Gun kind of way and not just in a weird old sci-fi kind of way. It's like a pre-set that I can't reset. RIP.
ReplyDeleteAlright, with Leslie Nielsen down who are the next two for this cluster of three dead celebrities?
ReplyDeleteSomeone on Metafilter said they had the same reaction to seeing him on M*A*S*H, like at some point his lines would take that one degree from normal twist.
ReplyDeleteDane Cook! (If you're taking suggestions, that is. If you wanted a guess I'd be stumped.) And Andy Dick.
ReplyDelete.... Now THAT's service.
ReplyDeleteEd Asner, Ernest Borgnine.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Irvin Kershner is #2...
ReplyDeleteI had no idea he screen tested for Ben-Hur.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/v/yV1gKKXZfvE&feature" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="170" height="140
I just came here to update my post, but you beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteIf Ernest Borginine (92-year-old sex machine!) has survived this long, chances are he's just not going to die at all.
ReplyDeleteEverything I see reminds me of her.
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