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Monday, November 29, 2010

Actor Leslie Nielsen has died at age 84.  The cause was complications from pneumonia, a spokesman said.

Here’s an appreciation of Leslie Nielsen’s comic style from NPR. He was a formerly straight actor who found gold with silly deadpan comedy in Airplane in 1980.  After that he became both straight man and punchline for a generation of moviegoers, nearly always in spoofs, parodies, and gag films of all kinds.

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