The world is a little less funny today. Shorewood High School graduate Jim Abrahams, a co-creator of the zany "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies, has died at age 80. His death was confirmed in an ...
The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker movies took their extreme silliness ... When my parents sat me down at a young age to watch “Airplane!,” I had never seen any of the flicks it was riffing on ...
He and boyhood friends Jerry and David Zucker got their start with 'The Kentucky Fried Movie,' and they also ... on its ear with such zany efforts as Airplane!, Police Squad!
You turn on a movie, and just as someone on screen peels their clothes off or starts spewing blood, a flight attendant comes by to offer you peanuts or pretzels, and you realize that you've made a ...