(1980): This disaster movie spoof set the standard for the genre with its rapid-fire gags and deadpan delivery. ⦁ This Is Spinal Tap (1984): Rob Reiner’s mockumentary about a fictional heavy metal ...
Jim Abrahams, a film director and writer behind hit slapstick comedies like “Airplane!,” “Hot Shots!,” the “Naked Gun” series and more, died Tuesday, his son Joseph confirmed to Variety. He was 80.
Police were still working on identifying a vehicle and human remains found in a pond off U.S. 341 Wednesday. The 1979 Lincoln Continental was towed from the pond Tuesday night to the headquarters ...
The Naked Gun, and Police Squad, has died at the age of 80 ... who convinced Abrahams and the Zuckers to take their revue and turn it into a movie he would direct himself. The result, The Kentucky ...