I did my best on a write-up of Leslie Nielsen’s passing here last night, but for those interested, Roger Ebert the AP did an even longer, more thorough obit (correction: apparently Ebert just quoted the AP, the lazy ass). That’s where I found this awesome video, Nielsen’s screen test for the role of Messala in Ben Hur, a part which eventually went to Stephen Boyd. I don’t know why Nielsen didn’t get it. Clearly he was awesome.
“The lion and the jackal, do you still hunt them, or have you become too dignified?”
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t use that taunt myself on my married friends. “C’mon, pussy, chug your beer, we’re going jackal hunting.”
“You cling to a tree that is dead! You walk in a circle around your memory of the past, like a donkey plodding his way around a water wheel!”
ZING! Now THAT’S how you insult. I think that was the last thing Tila Tequila said before she got pelted with rocks and Juggalo poop.
(*pours out a little Four Loko on the jack-off couch*)
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The acting was passable but he needed to work on his walking.
Oh Leslie Nielsen, I should like to laugh again.
(*pours out a little Four Loko on the jack-off couch*)
Hey, take it easy, that’s valuable stuff! It’s like the hetero 21st century equivalent of Romulan Ale!
Nielsen did pretty well, but [insert anti-Semitic comment here].
Roger Ebert did an even longer, more thorough obit
I may have missed something, but wasn’t that just the AP write-up that’s been reprinted all over the place – albeit with added youtubage?
Where does this Stephen Boyd live? I need to talk to him about ruining any potential “Ben Hur Oveur” jokes.
I pray to you lord of destruction and internet bring me a new frotcast before thursday. Banish my enemies to their graves and release them from their mortal coils and from their insides I will feast and nurture the rage necessary to crush their bones into dust and snort said dust to give me high enough and erection enough to spread seed to all of their families and from their origins split their family tree into my design only to uproot and demolish said tree so no etymologists dare recover one word of their vernacular. Lord please smite anyone who delays the frotcast. Thankyou lord of destruction and internet.
You know if he would have just looked at the camera after trowing the staff and the boom mic man fell at the other edge of the screen staff stuck in his side … then he would have got the part :0p