December 2, 1988 –
Paramount Pictures’ very silly film, (based on the short lived TV series)The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalbán, and George Kennedy, opened on this date.
Several years later, Queen Elizabeth II attended a Oakland A’s versus Baltimore Orioles game in Baltimore, Maryland, and met both teams in their respective dugouts. Reggie Jackson, then an Oakland A’s coach, was the first person in the receiving line in the Oakland dugout. Some news channels showed gag footage from this movie of the Queen’s impersonator throwing out the first pitch. Leslie Nielsen met the real Queen Elizabeth II in 2005.
