An curved arrow pointing right. NBA legend and "Mycroft Holmes" author Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks about why the movie "Airplane" is still so popular today, and a crazy thing that happened to him ...

director Jim Abrahams died at the age of 80. The writer ... A third user posted: "Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane!, Police Squad, Top Secret, etc. I mean, come on! Not just laughs, but huge ...

Abrahams was 80 years old ... Paramount that finally decided to gamble on ZAZ and Airplane! and they were rewarded with a huge hit. The movie was based on an obscure 1950s thriller called Zero ...

the blockbuster disaster movie spoof “Airplane!” Their anything-for-a-laugh approach had roots in vaudeville, the Catskills and MAD magazine, although Abrahams wasn’t convinced it was ...