{"id":2374,"date":"2010-11-29T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2010-11-29T18:56:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T01:56:05","slug":"rip-leslie-nielsen-comedic-actor-extraordinaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Leslie Nielsen, comedic actor extraordinaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/naked-gun-570.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/naked-gun-570.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"naked-gun-570\" width=\"570\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/naked-gun-570.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/naked-gun-570-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was about a year and a half ago that I wrote about <strong>Ricardo Montalb\u00e1n<\/strong> as the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/\">best actor in LOUIE LOUIE tragic death category<\/a>&#8221; with his performance as the arch-villain in the  \u201c<strong>The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad<\/strong>!\u201d motion picture.  <\/p>\n<p> I am saddened to report that <strong>Leslie Nielsen<\/strong>, the star of this great comedy, has joined Mr. Montalb\u00e1n in the category of no-longer-living-entertainers.<\/p>\n<p>In my post on Mr.Montalb\u00e1n, I posted a YouTube clip that featured the LOUIE-specific scene where Montalb\u00e1n played an evil villain that died after being shot by <strong>Lt. Frank Drebin<\/strong>, Leslie Nielson&#8217;s character, falling from the bleachers of a sports arena, only to be flattened by a stream roller, then walked over by a marching band that performed  \u201cLOUIE LOUIE.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that clip has been removed, but I did find a cool YouTube compilation of other choice moments of Leslie Nielsen&#8217;s performances in the <strong>Naked Gun<\/strong> movies.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re going to miss you, Mr. Nielsen!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eJEmtLxkEoI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eJEmtLxkEoI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was about a year and a half ago that I wrote about Ricardo Montalb\u00e1n as the &#8220;best actor in LOUIE LOUIE tragic death category&#8221; with his performance as the arch-villain in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18,30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louie-universe","category-motion-pictures","category-obituaries","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}