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Stucker was born in Des Moines, Iowa.His family moved to Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he distinguished himself in school as a pianist and class clown.. He made his screen debut co-starring in the 1975 comedic sexploitation film Carnal Madness as Bruce Wilson, a gay fashion designer who escapes from an insane asylum with two fellow inmates, fleeing to an all-girls school.
David Zucker said "it was the first time we had ever been on a movie set. We learned a lot. We learned that if you really wanted a movie to come out the way you wanted it to, you had to direct. So on the next movie, Airplane!, we insisted on directing". [18] Eventually the Airplane! script found its way to Paramount through Michael Eisner.
The pages also are peppered with fun facts about David Letterman's audition for the Ted Striker role (Robert Hays got the part) and Nielsen's use of a fart machine to keep things light on the set.
David Samuel Zucker (born October 16, 1947) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Associated mostly with parody comedies, Zucker is recognized for collaborating with Jim Abrahams and his brother Jerry as part of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker, with whom he wrote and directed the 1980 film Airplane! and created The Naked Gun franchise.
If you love those wisecracks and funny movie quotes in general, you've come ... "I am serious. And don't call me 'Shirley.' – Dr. Rumack, "Airplane" (1980) ... White help Celtics pull away to ...
It stars Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Sterling Hayden and features Peggy King, Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch, Geoffrey Toone, and Jerry Paris in supporting roles. It was released by Paramount Pictures. [3] Zero Hour! was a remake of the Canadian television play Flight into Danger, and was in turn used as the basis for the 1980 parody film Airplane!
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Airplane II opened in the United States the same weekend as The Toy and 48 Hrs. and finished second for the weekend behind The Toy with a gross of $5,329,208 from 1,150 screens. [ 2 ] [ 8 ] Grosses dropped 45% [ 9 ] the following week and the film went on to earn only $27.2 million in the United States and Canada, [ 2 ] compared to the original ...