Monday, June 28, 2010

Film - Surely It’s 30 (Don’t Call Me Shirley!)

Film - Surely It’s 30 (Don’t Call Me Shirley!): "WHEN the creators of “Airplane!” were lining up actors for their rollicking parody three decades ago, some of the straight-arrow character actors that ended up in the cast worried about the harm it might do to their careers. One of the most skittish participants: Peter Graves, the taciturn “Mission: Impossible” star who played the movie’s pilot, a kindly veteran who welcomes a little boy named Billy into the cockpit and asks questions like “Ever seen a grown man naked?”"