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I just want to tell you good luck. We’re all counting on you.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross. From WHYY. Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues. Tumblr curated by associate producer Nell Boeschenstein with contributions by associate producer Heidi Saman.
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Audio for Terry’s 1993 interview with Leslie Nielsen is now up. Enjoy!
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Surely, Fresh Air Remembers Leslie Nielsen
Lt. Frank Drebin: That's the red-light district. I wonder why Savage is hanging around down there.
Captain Ed Hocken: Sex, Frank?
Lt. Frank Drebin: Uh, no, not right now, Ed.
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![Today, we remember Leslie Nielsen. Here he is, in a 1993 interview on Fresh Air, talking about the film that catapulted him into comedy: “When I read the [Airplane!] script I knew exactly what they were after. It was the greatest break of my life, in a sense, that I ended up working with people who spotted me for being the closet comedian that I was.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcno30Z8Eb1qd9dz2o1_500.jpg "Today, we remember Leslie Nielsen. Here he is, in a 1993 interview on Fresh Air, talking about the film that catapulted him into comedy: “When I read the [Airplane!] script I knew exactly what they were after. It was the greatest break of my life, in a sense, that I ended up working with people who spotted me for being the closet comedian that I was.”")
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Today, we remember Leslie Nielsen. Here he is, in a 1993 interview on Fresh Air, talking about the film that catapulted him into comedy: “When I read the [Airplane!] script I knew exactly what they were after. It was the greatest break of my life, in a sense, that I ended up working with people who spotted me for being the closet comedian that I was.”
