Hey! Have you heard the news that Mike Myers has pretty much signed up to star in a fourth Austin Powers film? We’re legally obliged to say ‘Groovy baby’ here or someone from a big Hollywood studio will leak our sex tape.
The Commie bastards.
Anyway, Myers isn’t the first person to rip-off Bond in the movies. Far from it! In fact, Bond is probably the most aped person in cinema history (don’t argue – we haven’t really thought about it and don’t rightly care). So what else is there? Well, let us just put it this way, in comparison to some Bond spoofs, Austin Powers almost looks like a documentary about spies.
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Sad news folks. Leslie Nielsen is no longer with us. The dead-pan comedy actor shrugged off his mortal coil at 84 years old after complications concerning pneumonia. Sadly, there’s no punchline to this.
Nielsen, of course, was the star of the brilliant ‘Airplane!’ and the ‘Police Squad’ TV show (unbelievably, only six episodes long!). He was also the man at the helm of the Naked Gun franchise (brilliantly awful in places) and spoof flicks like ‘Repossessed’.
After starting out as a serious actor who wasn’t very good, his fortunes turned when he gravitated toward comedy. His straight-faced dumbness and ability to completely not react to a joke won him fans all over the world. And so, we look at some of the highlights from his career. Read More >>>
Standing with one leg on the shoulders of comedy gods, his work is the stuff of legend; Naked Gun, Airplane, those frequent Due South cameos.
Now, talking to Hecklerspray, we get down to all things funny with the unflappable Leslie Nielsen.
Read it after the jump…
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