Tag: ‘Airplane’

• Cancel culture killjoys killing comedy

  

  Cancel culture is killing comedy — now the classic movie spoof ‘Airplane!’ is at risk of being shelved because of ‘offensive’ scenes.

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  October 16, 2021

  CANCEL CULTURE

  ‘Airplane’, Barbara Billingsley, Black jive, Comedy, David and Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Movie classics, Robert Hays

• The Laurence Olivier of spoofs

  

  REMEMBERING LESLIE NIELSEN Died on this day, November 28, 2010. “I’ve been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. That would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.” Leslie Nielsen, the son of a Mountie, was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and raised in Tulita (formerly Fort Norman), Northwest Territories. One of his two brothers, Erik, became…

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  November 28, 2019

  COMIC ACTORS

  ‘Airplane’, ‘Naked Gun’, ’Forbidden Planet’, ”Don’t call me Shirley.”, Canada, FAMOUS DEATHS, Leslie Nielsen