To many baseball fans, Leslie Nielsen, who died yesterday at the age of 84, is better known as “Enrico Palazzo”, the dysfunctional national anthem singer turned home plate umpire that he portrayed in a scene from The Naked Gun. Nielsen’s outrageous parody yielded one most memorable comedic depictions of the game in movie history. However, […]
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RIP Leslie Nielsen; Comedic Actor Was “Surely” Serious About Baseball
Posted in Baseball, Culture, MLB, Movies, tagged Leslie Nielsen on November 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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