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Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. Airplane! Top Secret! Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (abbreviated to ZAZ) were an American comedy filmmaking trio consisting of Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker who specialised in writing slapstick comedy films during the 1980s. Members of the team have often collaborated with writer Pat Proft .
Jul 2, 1980 · Airplane!: Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker. With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty. After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Sep 29, 2023 · And don't call me Shirley. MARTÍNEZ: "Surely You Can't Be Serious" is the name of a new book by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. It tells the true story of "Airplane!," the film they ...
Jul 22, 2020 · When Bruce Rubin first heard that Jerry Zucker, co-director of Airplane! and Top Secret!, was going to direct his beautiful, spiritual love story, he cried. But to Bruce’s credit, he called me ...
Apr 18, 2008 · Jerry Zucker, a self-made billionaire who turned a small holding company into an empire that eventually bought the Hudson’s Bay Company of Canada, died Saturday at his home in Charleston, S.C ...
English. Budget. $3.5 million [3] Box office. $171 million [4] Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) [5] is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debuts, [6] and produced by Jon Davison.
Jerry Zucker was born 24 August 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel, one of three children born to Leon Zucker and Zipora Zucker (née Shlifkovitz), the other two being his brother Jacob and his sister Rochelle. His parents were both Holocaust survivors. Zucker immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island in 1952. [5]
