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Actor Leslie Nielsen dies at 84 (http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/entertainment&id=7813786)


Canadian-born actor Leslie Nielsen of "The Naked Gun" fame has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 84.

According to his agent, John S. Kelly, Nielsen died just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday from complications of pneumonia at a hospital near his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla

Surely you can't be serious.   :uhrr:

I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue... :(

Well this fucking sucks :( Seems like only yesterday when it was 1988 and he starred as a young, lively 62? year old in first Naked Gun movie - which was the first movie I saw him in.

Surely you can't be serious.

Oh man  :sad_panda:

One of the greats, and hugely under-appreciated, in my opinion.

It's all about Forbidden Planet.

I am serious and don't call me Shirley!

Frank Drebin! Police Squad! And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!

I just finished Stan Helsing. Which was horrid.

Wasn't he deaf too?

What IainC said. Also, I was 8 by 1988 and probably didn't see this movie until a couple of years later, at earliest - I doubt I even knew who Leslie Nielsen was before 1990.

This is damn terrible news. Loved Police Squad as a kid, and the Naked Gun movies even more.

He was simply great. Beside the Naked Gun movies, I loved him as the President of the USA in Scary movie 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7F7Uw6yP4

"Hey how are you, hey how are you..." :D

:crying_panda:

Bye Leslie. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyCL-ELRxg

We're sorry to bother you at such a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then.

Someone needs to put their foot down, and I am that foot.

:sad:

Yes he was.

John Candy, Leslie Neilson.. us Canucks are running out of the funny men. Who do we have coming up? Russell Peters? Ryan Reynolds? :uhrr:

Do 'mericans even know who Russell Peters is yet? Somebody gonna get a hurt, real bad.

I do.

You guys still have Shatner.

Leslie Nielsen is legend.

Keannu Reeves might smile for the first time any day now!

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Russell Peters has been hugely popular in America for about the last 5 years or so.  Hell, most people I know didn't realize he was Canadian.   :awesome_for_real:

So you are saying there are brown people in America?  :ye_gods:

I kid, I kid - I just find that living in Vancouver makes other places seem very, um, monochrome in comparison. I wondered how well Peters' ethnic impersonations played to other places.

Atlanta is full of Indians.  So it worked for me.

Sad News.  I don't know where he is now, but he won't smell too good, that's for sure.

 :heartbreak:

Cheer up, Ed. This is not goodbye. It's just I won't ever see you again. :sad:

Have you smelled him before to know it'll be worse?

God I hope you're playing that one ironically straight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egaR4WvLPY

Oh come on, most major American cities are massive melting pots.  San Francisco is even less white than Vancouver.  Of course his humor is going to go over well here.  US and Canadian culture is incredibly similar, things popular in one place are going to be popular in another.  Now, I don't know how popular he is outside of North America....

On another note, I went to google his name after I read about his death, and discovered that there's actually a model who shares his name (with a slightly different spelling), via google throwing this picture at me after hitting the search button:

NSFW:
Further investigations show she has many other great photos.  So thank you Leslie Nielsen!  Even in death you bring me joy.

I only do straight if I'm playing. :drillf:

To be serious a second, a lot of my humor is deadpanned silliness thanks to Mr. Nielsen.  He's always been one of my favorites.

The Daily Show moment of Zen made me laugh and Sigh.

Such a shame.

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 :cry:

Remember him fondly. They just get better and better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_3rJqHWYjs

<sniffle> I loved that show.

Somehow the line "She ruled the city like she made love... With an Iron Fist" has stayed with me all my life.

 :heartbreak:

I don't remember which of the Naked Gun movies it comes from (and I'm probably misqouting it), but the most memorable one for me:

Somebody: Frank, you might wind up dead!
Frank Drebin:  "You Might Wind Up Dead" is my middle name.

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