“Please don’t call me Shirley”… Peter Graves has died at age 83, apparently of a heart attack. He starred in the original “Mission Impossible” TV show, and the Airplane movies.
As a teenager, he worked at WMIN in Minneapolis. If you want to impress your friends, mention he was the brother of James Arness, who played Matt Dillon on the TV series Gunsmoke.
I just watched that movie Saturday! One of the all time classics!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIAUbPDgaAg
Very good movie…..Airplane…..
“What’s your clearance, Clarence?”
“Roger, Roger.”
“Over, Oveur.”
What’s your vector, Victor?
I especially enjoy the sight gags and the intentional continuity errors where things move or change between camera shots. Each time I see it, I notice things I had missed before- but I’m the weird kind of person who watches the background in a firm, not the star :)
Speaking of backgrounds, isn’t there a scene involving Robert Stack’s character being driven to the airport, and the background keeps changing?