On July 2, 1980, Paramount unveiled a film that would eventually become known as one of the great movie comedy satires. By Ron Pennington On July 2, 1980, Paramount unveiled in theaters Airplane!, ...
The iconic 1980 film “Airplane!” from the ZAZ directing team, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker parodies the plot and characters from the 1957 disaster flick “Zero Hour!” The iconic 1980 ...
Forty years ago this month, three guys from Shorewood released a movie that helped reshape funny in America. When "Airplane!" debuted in July 1980, it put Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and David Zucker ...
“Airplane” is a movie that feeds off other movies and it begins, as did “1941,” by borrowing that ominous-sounding music that heralded each public appearance of the shark in “Jaws.” This time, as the ...
“Can you fly this plane and land it?” asks a physician named Dr. Rumack after food poisoning fells the flight crew of a jet heading from Los Angeles to Chicago. “Surely you can’t be serious,” says Ted ...
I'm about to ask three guys how they made a funny movie 43 years ago that still gets quoted today. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "AIRPLANE!") KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: (As Roger) We have clearance, Clarence. PETER ...