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"Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who with brothers Jerry and David Zucker
turned the comedy genre on its ear with such zany efforts as
Airplane!,
Police Squad! and the
Naked Gun films, died Tuesday. He was 80.
Abrahams died of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, his son Joseph
told
The Hollywood Reporter.
The trio made their first mainstream impression by writing the sketch-filled
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), directed by John Landis in his prelude to
Animal House, and they also combined for
Top Secret! (1984), starring a
young Val Kilmer, and
Ruthless People (1986), featuring Bette Midler and
Danny DeVito.
Without his childhood buddies from Wisconsin, Abrahams directed
Big Business
(1988), starring Midler and Lily Tomlin, and co-wrote and helmed
Hot Shots!
(1991) and its 1993 sequel, both starring Charlie Sheen.
Joke-filled and laden with sight gags and puns, the humor of Zucker, Abrahams
and Zucker, or ZAZ as they came to be known, was fast, frenetic and just
downright silly. Parody was their specialty. Everything was ripe for ridicule —
the more absurd, the better."
Via Esther Schindler.
RIP,
*** Xanni ***
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