Byline: Reuters
LOS ANGELES -- Comedy-film star Leslie Nielsen, deadpan star of the new Spy Hard spoof and such comic classics as Naked Gun and Airplane!, wants to will show audiences his serious side in the fall - the one where he doesn't drop his trousers or stumble over his own feet.
The 70-year-old Canadian-born veteran of more than 60 films will take to the stage in the fall when he takes to the stage in Darrow, a one-man drama about legendary `` attorney for the damned'' Clarence Darrow. ``It's something I have to do for myself,'' the white-haired, blued-eyed Nielsen said.
``I didn't want to go ahead and be pegged for doing only comedy, …
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