David Zucker has been in the entertainment industry since the early 1970s, directing films like "Airplane!" and films from the "Scary Movie" franchise, but he is currently disappointed with cancel ...

Widely regarded as one of the funniest movies of all time, 1980’s Airplane! was the first in a long line of “Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker” (ZAZ) projects (though, of course, the trio wrote ...

1980 was the year of “The Empire Strikes Back,” but flying under the radar was a $3 million gag-fest called “Airplane ... their first major studio movie. It was a sleeper hit at the ...

Beyond “Airplane!,” ZAZ collectively made one TV show (the short-lived but brilliant “Police Squad!” that later begat the hit “Naked Gun” movies) and two more hilarious films ...

Picking the perfect airplane movie is no easy task, but the hosts of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour are here to help. Here's what they recommend watching on your next flight – and what they look ...

The actors’ deadpan deliveries and the movie’s over-the-top slapstick gags contributed to what Jim Abrahams calls the “endearing legacy” of Airplane! “All those guys [the actors] … had spent their ...

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 ...