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Odd, Jafo...I was going to post the exact same quote from "Airplane". Very good actor and comedian gone at 84, yesterday. RIP.
RIP Leslie Nielson. I remember his first movie. A scifi classic called Forbidden Planet. He was the captain of a flying saucer.
Strange they should change the name in an English speaking country...frequently films got really odd names in Israel when translated into Hebrew.
(CNN) -- Leslie Nielsen, whose longtime career as a square-jawed dramatic actor took a sudden turn into comedy with gut-busting spoofs like "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun," has died at age 84, his family said Sunday.
The Canadian-born Nielsen's career reached back into the early days of television, when he made frequent appearances on live drama series like "Goodyear Playhouse."
He played the earnest starship captain in the 1956 science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and made regular appearances on a wide range of TV dramas into the 1970s, including "Hawaii Five-O."
He also played the captain of an overturned ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie, "The Poseidon Adventure."
Much of that changed in 1980, when he was cast as a doctor aboard an endangered jetliner in the gag-a-minute disaster-movie parody "Airplane!"
Remembering Leslie Nielsen
Nielsen's deadpan response to the question "Surely, you can't be serious?" with "I am serious -- and don't call me Shirley" helped launch a second career.
Quoting Uvah, reply 6
RIP Leslie Nielson. I remember his first movie. A scifi classic called Forbidden Planet. He was the captain of a flying saucer.
End of Uvah's quote
"Nielsen first performed as the King of France in the Paramount operetta "The Vagabond King" with Kathryn Grayson.
The film — he called it "The Vagabond Turkey" — flopped, but MGM signed him to a seven-year contract.
His first film for that studio was auspicious — as the space ship commander in the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet." He found his best dramatic role as the captain of an overturned ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie, "The Poseidon Adventure."
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Doc...the suggestion was that the US was a little too 'conservative' to accept the drug reference in the title.
A bit like the 'Sorcerer's stone' and 'Mad Max'...both were also changed for the US ....;)
Holy cow! I missed that one completely....the thought never crossed my mind. 
Like most airplanes, that one went over my head. 
Awww..... he was great. Very funny man, with fabulous comedic timing....... B[]
Watched Forbidden Planet just yesterday in hidef...awesome. RIP Neilsen.
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