Wednesday 1 December 2010

R.I.P. LESLIE NIELSEN, AND DONT CALL HIM SHIRLEY!



I've this wonderful vision of the flashing police squad car light and siren wailing as it travels out of a Hollywood graveyard, mourners diving out of the way; Then up a tunnel of light; Smashing through the pearly gates, as St Paul dives out of the way; The light and siren carry on , bumping over white fluffy clouds , slamming into golden harps as angels dive all over the place. DETECTIVE FRANK DREBIN of POLICE SQUAD has arrived! Or LESLIE NIELSEN, as a few may remember him.


Any old farts in their 40's and (sadly) 50's will remember Nielsen , as he was in thousands of telly series and hundreds of films. Not starring , but as a character actor that popped up time and time again all over the place. F'rinstance he was the captain who went and overturned the ship in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. I dont think he was always a baddie ,but quite often a sneaky wealthy bad guy up to no good with the hero of whatever series it was.


Apparently when they were going to make AIRPLANE the producers didnt want comedians , but straight faced actors and Nielsen was one of the best and proved it. The short lived POLICE SQUAD spawned the NAKED GUN films and a heap of spoofs , hated by the all important critics ,but beloved by the buying public, but they dont matter , its the critics who know best, cos' they're proffessionals, and get their DVD's free, so can afford to be dismissive of every film they have to watch. Who cant like films with lines like .."Is this some kind o bust?"...."Yeah its very impressive ,but we need to ask some questions!"

6 comments:

john said...

Great caricature.....he was one of a kind!

monkey said...

i loved naked gun they just got better with each one....its always sad to see a funny man go.

Thud said...

I loved police squad as it seemed such a change from other crap at the time..R.I.P.

Tim Leatherbarrow said...

Thanks one n' all, i've been a bit quiet ,now i'm a mature student ,of which i will bore the arse of you with all the sordid details presently......But i'm trying to learn to paint n' draw proper so you'll probably see a few more painted attempts....Same shit ,just painted shit!

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