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Home / Blog / Remembering Leslie Neilsen (and Enrico Pollatzo)

Remembering Leslie Neilsen (and Enrico Pollatzo)

By: Dr. Chris Stankovich | @DrStankovich | Nov 30, 2010

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Leslie Neilsen passed away on Sunday, leaving sports fans with many great memories from his comedic brilliance on the big screen.  His scenes in Airplane! with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were hilarious, but perhaps his funniest scene was while playing Enrico Pollatzo the baseball umpire in The Naked Gun. You can read the rest of my article in The Examiner today, as well as enjoy the original umpire clip here:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-S-eeInJVk[/youtube]

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