The legendary Leslie Nielsen of Police Squad, Airplane, Naked Gun and spoof movies in general fame has sadly died. Surely one of America's finest entertainers. And - it goes without saying: Don't call him Shirley...
Freakily enough, I just posted the promo video for "Tuckbar Fantasy" - of which the title actually came courtesy of Leslie Nielsen when he appeared on An Audience With Jimmy Tarbuck and called him "Mister Tuckbar" - possibly the only genuinely funny thing in the whole show...
Anyway, even though I planned on not doing any more RIP tribute posts (which you may have noticed) - as there seems to be so many great entertainers dying this year and I don't want to bog CosmoBells down with endless RIP posts - I thought Leslie deserved it because I'm such a huge fan of Police Squad (practically obsessively so) and am often quoting his lines from that show.
LESLIE NIELSEN
1926-2010
RIP
