{"id":14012,"date":"2015-12-10T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14012"},"modified":"2015-12-06T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T15:25:01","slug":"18-fun-facts-about-the-naked-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=14012","title":{"rendered":"18 Fun Facts About &#8220;The Naked Gun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z121015nakedgun_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Roger Cormier\u00a0<\/b>and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong><b>\u00a0<\/b>present <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/71895\/18-fun-facts-about-naked-gun\" target=\"_blank\">18 Fun Facts About <em>The Naked Gun<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my <span style=\"color: #000000;\">favorites<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">6. THEY DREW FROM SEVERAL OLDER MOVIES.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nThe Charlotte Rampling and Robert Mitchum movie <em>Farewell, My Lovely<\/em> (1975) was where the scene of Priscilla Presley gliding down the stairs came from (the falling part was the comedic twist). The assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle in <em>The Day of the Jackal<\/em> (1973) gave ZAZ the idea for the assassination plot against Queen Elizabeth II. <em>Mad<\/em> magazine, the <em>Dirty Harry<\/em> movies, and the cop series <em>M Squad<\/em> were other cited sources of satirization.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">8. IT WAS JOHN HOUSEMAN\u2019S FINAL FILM ROLE.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nHouseman played the middle finger-raising driving instructor. Houseman collaborated with Orson Welles on the infamous <em>The War of the Worlds<\/em> radio broadcast and on <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>. In 1974, he won a Best Supporting Acting Oscar for the his role in <em>The Paper Chase<\/em>. A week before <em>The Naked Gun<\/em> was released, Houseman also made a cameo in <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/71730\/22-fun-facts-about-scrooged\" target=\"_self\"><em>Scrooged<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">17. <em>THE NAKED GUN<\/em> THEME SONG PLAYED AT NIELSEN\u2019S FUNERAL.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nNielsen passed away on <span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">November 28, <\/span><span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\">2010<\/span> at the age of 84 and was laid to rest in Fort Lauderdale. Dominik Hauser\u2019s theme played as the Canadian Mounted Police carried his coffin.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 18 Fun Facts About The Naked Gun.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 6. 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