Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
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#1Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:25pm
Leslie Nielsen Dies
Updated On: 11/29/10 at 09:25 PM
#2Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:27pmSurely, you can't be serious!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#3Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:35pmAw, that's upsetting.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#4Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:41pmI hope they bury him with a Whoopie Cushion!
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#5Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:48pmWhat a talent. And he worked right up to the end, providing some of the only good moments in the new generation of spoof movies.
#7Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 10:00pmI wonder if they now will release that Alfred Hitchcock presents The Magic Shop? He played the father of a kid who discovered a secret magic shop and obtained powers. Scared the living poop out of me as a kid and it hasn't been released in the box set.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 10:08pm
He originally screen tested for the role of Messala in Ben Hur
RIP
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#9Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 10:18pmI had the extreme pleasure and fun of directing him and I can only tell you he was a constant delight and one of the nicest people on the forbidden planet. I saw him about a year and a half ago and we had fun reminiscing. He had a great life, one to be celebrated.
#10Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/28/10 at 11:39pmMay he Rest in Peace.
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#11Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/29/10 at 5:59amYeah, I too had the pleasure of working with him and he was a great guy. I think he worked so much because people just liked being around him. He was a genuinely funny and genuinely sweet man. RIP.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
#12Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/29/10 at 6:47amSuch a great comedy actor but also did some wonderful dramatic work as well, RIP To one of the best funny men ever xx
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#14Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/29/10 at 2:30pm
No one looked better in a pair of tight trousers. (FORBIDDEN PLANET, TAMMY AND THE BACHELOR) RIP Mr. Nielsen.
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#15Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/29/10 at 5:59pmUnfortunately, the success in comedy late in his career ruined him for serious roles. In the movie "Nuts", he played the abusive john that prostitute Barbra Streisand is accused of murdering. The sight of Leslie Nielsen in black silk jockeys, slapping arouind Babs, was just impossible to take seriously!
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#16Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/29/10 at 11:44pmI met Leslie Nielsen at a friend's house in CA many years ago. He was a sweet, dear man...very down-to-earth...a regular guy. He stayed close to my friend and her family for many years. He came to her son's bar mitzvah. That's the kind of a man he was... I was saddened to learn of his passing. My deepest condolences to his family.
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#17Leslie Nielsen Dies at Age 84
Posted: 11/30/10 at 3:29pmThe Naked Gun: 33 1/3 just started on Comedy Central. I'm guessing it was hurried into their line up as a tribute, which I can't object to, though I wish it was 2 1/2 since that is my favorite of the trilogy.
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