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  Airplane! - Review (Flying High)
Debutant writer-directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker may since have surpassed this in the chortle stakes with 'Police Squad!' and the 'Naked Gun' flicks, but at the time this stuff was comedy's big new thing.
The story's not particularly important - Abrahams and the Zucker boys were putting rapid-fire gags and cinema send-ups ahead of plot development even a quarter of a century ago.
Frankly I think that David Zucker is really David Zuckerman from Family Guy but he just changed his name.
www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1410   (640 words)

  
  USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
David Zucker: That was the writer for Phone Booth and my producing partner and I found the script and sent it to our agents.
David Zucker: I'm not intersting in directing one but if we ever get a script that we like that's very original then I would be interested in doing it.
David Zucker: Anna Faris was in the first two movies so she came with the series as did Regina Hall.
cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20040513005/tscript.htm   (1499 words)

  
 David Zucker
David is a popular international performer in theatres, festivals, schools, libraries and museums.
David's one-man show synthesizes his more than 30 years of experience as an actor, director, playwright, teacher and mime, and packs it all into an old steamer trunk brimming with props, costumes, masks and puppets.
With these, David introduces his cast of characters drawn from the world's best children's poems.
www.yaconn.org /theatre/davidzuc.htm   (150 words)

  
 Massachusetts Performers & Programs Directory - David Zucker/ Young Audiences of Massachusetts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The skills that David brings to inspiring young people's interest and love of poetry in Poetry in Motion he also applies to Poems that Go Bump in the Night.
David Zucker's Poetry in Motion is an exhilarating tour de force, combining acting, mime, audience participation and an old steamer trunk brimming with props, costumes, masks,...
This innovative, interactive program, featuring Richard McElvain and David Zucker, the outrageous duo renowned for Mythmasters, is aimed to wake a hunger for the Bard in the classroom....
www.semls.org /performer/perfresults.asp?PerformerID=95   (213 words)

  
 David Zucker
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, David Zucker studied filmmaking at the University of Wisconsin before forming the improv group Kentucky Fried Theatre with his brother Jerry, and their friend Jim Abrahams.
Jerry and David played various roles in the film and their sister Susan and mother Charlotte also played small roles.
Zucker was the sole director and writer on H.U.D. (2000), a made-for-TV movie, but returned to the big screen to produce his first drama, Phone Booth (2003).
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=1938   (276 words)

  
 Sweeney Art Gallery | Exhibitions | Animate Objects
The Sweeney Art Gallery is delighted to present the interactive sculptural installations of artists David and Lizzie Zucker Saltz in their first collaborative West Coast exhibition.
Lizzie Zucker Saltz is an artist, critic, and curator who teaches in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Georgia, Athens, and presently writes for Art Papers Magazine.
She and David were featured in "Collaborating Couples" at the Georgia Museum of Art, 2000.
sweeney.ucr.edu /exhibitions/animate   (720 words)

  
 Business Wire: David F. Zucker Named Midway's Chief Executive ... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
David F. Zucker Named Midway's Chief Executive Officer and President; Neil D. Nicastro to Remain Chairman of the Board.
Zucker joins Midway from Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:PLA), where he was president and chief operating officer, overseeing all day-to-day operations.
Prior to joining Playboy in May, 2002, Zucker was a managing director at Walker Digital LLC and served as president and chief executive officer of DIVA Systems Corporation.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:101335797&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (518 words)

  
 Remembering David Dukes
David seems more present than ever — his films, like The Josephine Baker Story (for which he received an Emmy nomination) and A Little Romance (with Laurence Olivier) — even 79 Park Avenue (an old Harold Robbins made-for-TV movie) and Snowkill and Without a Trace all surface on HBO or TNT or other channels.
And there's more news about David's posthumuous "presence" — At the invitation of the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library in New York City, I have arranged to donate David's theater "archive" (all of his photographs, letters, annotated scripts and screenplays, notes, signed theater posters, and other memorabilia) to the library collection.
David would have been thrilled to know that this record of his life and profession would be available to theater scholars, actors, critics and the public.
www.carolmuskedukes.com /daviddukes.htm   (844 words)

  
 Mime David Zucker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
David Zucker's life in the theatre encompasses three decades of continued success in every aspect of the art: acting, directing, and, to the great benefit of YA Massachusetts, performing in the schools.
His five-year stint as Artistic Director of the chapter, and his many years of service led to his being awarded Artist of the Year at April's national conference in Dallas.
David is a truly "home grown" artist/educator, and provides a fresh perspective to program development.
www.youngaudiences.org /DZucker.html   (646 words)

  
 Straight Men - The comedy of Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker. By Bryan Curtis
David Zucker once told an interviewer, "Everything guys like Leslie Nielsen say and do onscreen is put in from backstage.
David Zucker is such a sharp, funny guy that it feels a bit unfair to blame the decline of the spoof on him, and I suspect it has more to do with the durability of the form itself.
David Zucker told an interviewer a few years back, "The whole idea of spoof, to me, is just so done and gone." So why, pray, does he insist on making more of them?
www.slate.com /id/2090376   (1184 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: A Blockbuster Director, Proud Of His 'Flop'
Director David Zucker is your basic Prius-driving, tree-hugging Hollywood type.
Zucker says he considers the Democratic nominee "brilliant," but tells us, "I just don't trust him to protect the country.
It depicts a groom at the altar ditching his bride in favor of a voluptuous bridesmaid, then lunging for an elderly organist.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A57469-2004Oct23?language=printer   (702 words)

  
 Professor Steve Zucker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Steven W. Zucker is the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Yale University.
Zucker obtained his education at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and at Drexel University in Philadelphia, and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Zucker has authored or co-authored papers on computational vision, biological perception, artificial intelligence, and robotics, and serves on the editorial boards of 8 journals.
www.cs.yale.edu /homes/vision/zucker/steve.html   (203 words)

  
 David Zucker @ Filmbug
David Zucker is one of Hollywood's most successful filmmakers, with such smash comic hits as Airplane!
Starting out after college with a few borrowed video tape decks and an old film camera, David convinced brother Jerry and family friend Jim Abrahams to join him in creating the Kentucky Fried Theater in the back of a bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin.
In 1988, David Zucker ventured on to his first film as solo director.
www.filmbug.com /db/35544   (430 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Scary Movie 3 -- David Zucker - DVD - Pan & Scan
Scary Movie 3 director David Zucker -- who, together with his brother Jerry and their partner Jim Abrahams, practically invented the spoof genre with 1980's Airplane -- worked here with writer Pat Proft, his collaborator from the Naked Gun movies.
Zucker tones down the sex-and-drug jokes and relies on tighter scripting, better pacing, and sharper parody to distinguish this entry.
The Zucker in question is David Zucker, and he's brought along his partner in movie-parody crime, Leslie Nielsen.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=786936241754&pwb=1   (794 words)

  
 Articles - Jerry Zucker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jerry Zucker (born March 11, 1950 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American movie director best known for his role in directing comedy spoof films.He graduated from Shorewood High School.
In 1990, he lent his directorial skills to the dramatic genre with Ghost, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Like his brother David Zucker, Jerry often casts his mother Charlotte Zucker in small roles in his films.
www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Jerry_Zucker   (137 words)

  
 Flash!! Steven Seagal and David Zucker Team for Comedy !! !! - Unofficial Steven Seagal Forums
Zucker and Netter are working with Steamroller Productions, the Seagal company run by Phil Goldfine, to find the right comic vehicle.
Zucker said Seagal reminded him of Leslie Nielsen (news), who had a long career in straight drama before his deadpan comic potential was put on display in the Zucker-directed "Airplane!" Zucker then put him in the short-lived TV series "Police Squad!", which led to the "Naked Gun" film series.
Zucker and Netter are working with Steamroller Prods., the Seagal shingle run by Phil Goldfine, to find the right comic vehicle.
www.steven-seagal.net /forum/showthread.php?t=3275   (1279 words)

  
 Next Generation - David Zucker
Two years after taking charge at woeful underperformer Midway, David Zucker says results are coming through.
Zucker’s main achievement seems to have been to bring a sense of purpose and direction to Midway, which had spent years slipping further from the market leaders.
Zucker says almost all games coming to market from now on will have been conceived during his tenure--Gauntlet is the last from the old days.
www.next-gen.biz /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=2   (528 words)

  
 David Zucker
Zucker and his brother Jerry make quite the comedy team.
They are partners in Zucker Brothers Productions and are known for their spoof comedies such as
Jerry Zucker - Jerry Zucker producer, writer, director, actor Born: 3/11/1950 Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0763382.html   (106 words)

  
 Producer David Zucker, a "Sept. 12 Republican", tells family to "leave it blank"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Write/Producer/Director/Actor David Zucker, who has produced movies such as Airplane, Police Squad, Naked Gun, and Phone Booth, was one of the panelists today at the Liberty Film Festival in West Hollywood.
One of the more memorable comments of the 3-day festival was made by Zucker during the panel discussion with other producers, writers, and actors.
Judging by David Zucker's year of birth (1947), his mother is one of the GIMME Generation (formerly known as the Greatest Generation or the World War 2 Generation).
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1234542/posts   (3179 words)

  
 JS Online: David Zucker 'Takes Five'
One of the masterminds behind the comedy "Airplane!", the "Scary Movie" films and "Kentucky Fried Movie," filmmaker and Wisconsin native David Zucker is a funny guy.
A 1966 Shorewood High School grad and a supporter of President Bush, Zucker created a television ad that pokes fun at what he calls John Kerry's indecisive nature.
But if you never commit to what you believe in, who will ever commit to you?" Zucker talked Wednesday with Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Jones about what it's like to be a Bush supporter in Hollywood (lonely, but not as lonely as you might think).
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/movies/oct04/270283.asp   (605 words)

  
 The Unofficial Website of Zucker, Abrahams & Zucker - David Zucker Bio
Born 16 October 1947, in Milwaukee, David Zucker studied film-making at the University of Wisconsin.
Many of the early sketches performed at the theatre would later be transferred to ZAZ's big screen debut KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE.
Away from the ZAZ team David has had varying degrees of success directing and producing such films as, HIGH SCHOOL HIGH and SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS.
uk.geocities.com /zaz_fan/zaz_web_pages/davidbios.htm   (103 words)

  
 David Zucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Zucker (born January 13th 1990 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian budding percussionist, attending the sydney conservatorium of music high school.
David Zucker has represented Australia overseas on numerous occasions and travelled to such places as Asia, Europe, etc.
This page was last modified 08:49, 15 March 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Zucker   (125 words)

  
 BASEketball . Newcity Chicago . 08-03-98
Zucker came up with an insanely dull and dumb driveway game among friends over a decade ago, and nourished the thought of doing a TV show or a game show based on this forgettable mix of basketball and baseball.
The most inspired moments in the resulting film takes on what's become of sports in that decade-a mass-merchandised scam for millions to be made, not a form of sporting excellence.
The Musical" and "Orgazmo" (both opening later this year), but Zucker took a chance on them as regular-guy stand-ins before the massive success of their Comedy Central brat-romp.
www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/b/baseketball1.html   (260 words)

  
 Director David Zucker reveals SCARY MOVIE 3's plotline!
Scary Movie 3: In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, David Zucker talked about the premise of the 3rd Scary Movie and the addition of the Matrix spoof which came into the prodcution a little late in the game:
The hapless Cindy (Anna Faris) is now working as a TV anchorwoman and is assigned to cover the discovery of a crop circle on Charlie Sheen's farm.
After Zucker and his crew saw ''The Matrix Reloaded'' in May, they were so inspired that they shut down production for two weeks to incorporate an elaborate parody of the Wachowski brothers' epic.
www.movieweb.com /news/59/1359.php   (1139 words)

  
 U.S. Newswire : Releases : "'Airplane' Director David Zucker Lampoons Kerry's Waffling with New Ad..."   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
"John Kerry's indecisiveness and flip-flopping are no laughing matter-that is until we teamed up with Hollywood hit maker David Zucker," said Club for Growth.Net president Stephen Moore.
"David, whose credits include the blockbuster comedies "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun," has found a way to work his movie magic to create the funniest and most devastating ad this year.
The ad was written and directed by David Zucker.
releases.usnewswire.com /GetRelease.asp?id=38567   (460 words)

  
 The Club For Growth - The Club for Growth Blog: David Zucker will be on The O'Reilly Factor tonight!
David Zucker will be on The O'Reilly Factor tonight!
Zucker and ClubforGrowth.net have teamed up to create the new “Indecision” ad (watch it here), which highlights John Kerry’s flip-flop-ness (that’s a new word that I’d like to submit into pop culture’s lexicon).
David Zucker, who directed the “Indecision” ad, is also the director of hit movies like “Airplane!”, “Naked Gun”, and “Top Secret”.
www.clubforgrowth.org /blog/archives/015020.php   (218 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - The Naked Gun -- David Zucker - DVD - Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Mono
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear - David Zucker, Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley
We can also pinpoint the year of production when hardnosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the head of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev.
Those wacky ZAZ boys -- David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker -- serve up a feature-length spinoff of their cult favorite TV show Police Squad!
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=97363210047   (395 words)

  
 David Zucker
The Wisconsin-born and educated David Zucker, with his brother, Jerry, and Jim Abrahams, worked with the improvisational Kentucky Fried Theater in Madison, WI, before coming to movies in 1977 with Kentucky Fried Movie, a dazzlingly funny satire of movies, television, and popular culture.
During the early '80s, the Zuckers were responsible for a short-lived cop show parody called Police Squad, starring Leslie Nielsen, a one-time dramatic film actor who had emerged as a comedy star in Airplane!
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad (1988) was borne from the Police Squad parody and proved a monster hit; this was followed by Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994).
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P118048   (195 words)

  
 E! Online - Features - Film School - "Comedy 101"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I'm delighted to introduce Jim Abrahams and David Zucker.
There's an illusion that they clue in the moviemakers as to when those things are coming out.
In fact, we would get together pretty much socially, and David had access to some videotape equipment.
www.eonline.com /Features/Live/Filmschool2000/Zucker   (400 words)

  
 David Zucker (I)
David Zucker (I) Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases IMDbTV Message Boards Showtimes and Tickets IMDbPro IMDb Resume
The March 16, 2001 draft of the screenplay for My Boss's Daughter (2003) lists David Zucker and Peter Tilden as writers.
Tilden is not credited in the final film and Zucker only received a directing credit.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0001878   (513 words)

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