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The easiest way to ruin a perfectly good comedy, according to Leslie Nielsen: “It’s over”
The king of goofy comedy's career has spanned more than six decades, 100 movies and 150 TV shows, and it was based on a ...
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15 Most Underrated Movies by Leslie Nielsen You Must See
Leslie Nielsen is best known for his hilarious roles in comedy classics like ‘Airplane!’ and ‘The Naked Gun’ series, where ...
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The Naked Gun Honors Leslie Nielsen's Legacy In The Silliest Way Possible
Akiva Schaffer's reboot of The Naked Gun found a hysterical way to honor the legacy of the franchise's original star and ...
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The Naked Gun (1988): How Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley Made a Comedy Classic
As Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson star in the reboot, we look back at the 1988 Naked Gun with Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla ...
‘Naked Gun’ director Akiva Schaffer ‘threatened to quit’ to save this ‘polarizing’ scene
Director Akiva Schaffer, 47, has revealed that he “threatened to quit” the “Naked Gun” reboot to save a scene that the ...
The original “Naked Gun”'s casting was disaster-proof, in more ways than one
Over the course of three motion pictures (adapted from a six-episode television series, Police Squad! ), the cast of the OG ...
The Naked Gun — Liam Neeson is a worthy successor to Leslie Nielsen in expert dumb comedy
A mad scramble of pop culture tropes lands with aplomb as crime-fighting savant Frank Drebin returns to the screen ...
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Actor Leslie Nielsen dead at 84 - New York Post
Nielsen was born Feb. 11, 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan. He grew up 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle at Fort Norman, where his father was an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.