{"id":14720,"date":"2010-11-29T14:50:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T20:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14720"},"modified":"2010-11-29T15:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T21:01:54","slug":"actor-leslie-nielsen-1926-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/actor-leslie-nielsen-1926-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor, Leslie Nielsen (1926 &#8211; 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His work brought smiles to the world when smiles were needed most.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a great scene from <em>Dracula: Dead and Loving It<\/em>(thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bekka_black\/statuses\/9317823100755968\" class=\"external external_icon\">@bekka_black<\/a>) and a masterful montage of his work over the years.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/5E0972CC188A9E8D?hl=en_US&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/p\/5E0972CC188A9E8D?hl=en_US&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/film-obituaries\/8168071\/Leslie-Nielsen.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">He said of his work that &#8220;I have no interest in doing anything important.&#8221;<\/a> He perhaps stretched the joke by publishing an autobiography in 1993, The Naked Truth, which included comic fabrications such as two Academy Awards and an affair with Elizabeth Taylor. He actually did attract two Emmy nominations, however, but failed to win on either occasion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cllctr.com\/media\/image\/3\/c\/3c2d43ddb9e40a12cbdd0a015ae06004.jpg\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/3c2d43ddb9e40a12cbdd0a015ae06004-e1291061632404.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"RIP Leslie Nielsen. Thanks for all the laughs.\" width=\"600\" height=\"759\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14721\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/themercurymen\/status\/9078144191438849\" class=\"external external_icon\">@themercurymen<\/a>, for pointing us to this awesome photo of Nielsen wielding a ray gun in Forbidden Planet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Nielsen\" class=\"external external_icon\">Leslie Nielsen wiki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/culture-obituaries\/film-obituaries\/8168071\/Leslie-Nielsen.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Telegraph Obit: Leslie Nielsen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/articles\/4d5d3dbc37\/remembering-leslie-nielsen-his-best-quotes\" class=\"external external_icon\">Remembering Leslie Nielsen: His Best Quotes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His work brought smiles to the world when smiles were needed most. Below is a great scene from Dracula: Dead and Loving It(thanks to @bekka_black) and a masterful montage of his work over the years. He said of his work that &#8220;I have no interest in doing anything important.&#8221; He perhaps stretched the joke by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,29,72],"tags":[3638,538,3633,108,3637,3635,3632,1392,3634,36,259,3636],"class_list":["post-14720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-people-who-died","category-tee-vee","tag-and-dont-call-me-shirley","tag-actor","tag-canadian","tag-comedy","tag-deadpan","tag-dracula-dead-and-loving-it","tag-leslie-nielsen","tag-montage","tag-police-squad","tag-quotables","tag-sad-now","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14726,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720\/revisions\/14726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}