The world is a little less funny today. Shorewood High School graduate Jim Abrahams, a co-creator of the zany "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies, has died at age 80. His death was confirmed in an ...
Nothing demonstrated this better than Airplane! (1980 ... Part Deux, Abrahams and Proft poked fun at the Rambo movies. In addition to his son Joseph, survivors include his wife, Nancy Cocuzzo ...
Abrahams and his cohort got everyone from Nielsen to Priscilla Presley, his co-star in the “Naked Gun” movies, to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, an “Airplane!” standout, to submit to their wackiness.
(The memoir’s title is a riff on the famous “Airplane ... for a year before making their film debut with the indie sketch comedy “The Kentucky Fried Movie” in 1977.