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We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the head of Soviet president Mikhail .. Read more

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  Presley pays tribute to prankster Nielsen

  • 18 Dec 2010

  Priscilla Presley has paid tribute to her late Naked Gun co-star Leslie Nielsen in a heartfelt magazine essay. The funnyman died of complications from pneumonia, aged 84, last month (Nov10) and Presley decided to put her thoughts about him into words for a new Entertainment Weekly magazine article. The actress recalls how Nielsen helped to calm her nerves on the set of the 1988 movie and she'll always remember his sense of fun. She reveals he greeted her for the first time with a fart machine. Read more

  

  Comedy legend Nielsen dies

  • 29 Nov 2010

  Comic actor Leslie Nielsen has died of complications from pneumonia. He was 84. The Canadian star passed away surrounded by his family at a hospital near his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on Sunday (28Nov10). A statement from the star's relatives reads, "We are saddened by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun series of pictures, but who enjoyed a more than 60-year career in motion pictures and television." Nielsen trained... Read more

  

  Ghost still holds Swayze over Brit lovers

  • 13 Feb 2008

  Ghost, the 1990 tear-jerker starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, has topped a Valentine's poll of the nation's favourite love films. The film, which sees Swayze's character's, well, ghost attempt to contact his girlfriend after his death during a botched mugging, was a box office smash and the scene featuring the pottery wheel and Unchained Melody is among the most famous in recent cinema. Such is Ghost's cultural impact that it has been spoofed by everyone from Leslie... Read more

  

  This Sporting Life: What Happens When Sports Heroes Act Up?

  • 10 Jun 2009

  This Sporting Life: What Happens When Sports Heroes Act Up? Eric Cantona and Ken Loach. These are not names you would immediately put together. One is a multi-millionaire (surely?) ex footballer, revered by millons of fans; and French. The other is a proud socialist from middle-England (Nuneaton), who has rejected the big money offers; his films are admired but by a relatively small number of committed film buffs. What's more, Ken Loach is a dedicated supporter of Bath FC. I'm guessing there... Read more

  

  The Pink Panther

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  • 01 Jan 2000

  What is it about Inspector Clouseau that we just can’t let him go? Most iconic comic characters are really extensions of the clowns who played them – in the slapstick era it was always just another Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin or Harold Lloyd picture, regardless of the story. In modern times there aren’t many funny men who inspire that kind of loyalty. We’ll stay tuned to TV sit-coms for years, but on the big screen it’s rare to find a comedy role strong enough... Read more

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