To celebrate the new(ish) book "Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!" and the 45th anniversary of film, co-creators David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, and original stars Robert Hays ("Ted Striker") and Julie Hagerty ("Elaine Dickinson") come together for a special live read of the screenplay with special surprise guests, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
The writing and directing team of Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers, David and Jerry, were also responsible for comedy classics "The Naked Gun," "Kentucky Fried Movie," "Top Secret" and "Police Squad!"
"Airplane!," one of the most beloved comedy films of all time, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, in 1980 and is number ten on AFI's "100 Years...100 Laughs" list. Fasten your seatbelts for the film that brought us Ted Striker's "drinking problem," Otto Pilot, jive-talking Barbara Billingsley, a feud over the uses of the red zone and the white zone, and the reinvention of the wonderful Leslie Nielsen as a comedy superstar. Surely you will have a great time. And don't call me Shirley.
To celebrate the new(ish) book "Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!" and the 45th anniversary of film, co-creators David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, and original stars Robert Hays ("Ted Striker") and Julie Hagerty ("Elaine Dickinson") come together for a special live read of the screenplay with special surprise guests, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
The writing and directing team of Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers, David and Jerry, were also responsible for comedy classics "The Naked Gun," "Kentucky Fried Movie," "Top Secret" and "Police Squad!"
"Airplane!," one of the most beloved comedy films of all time, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, in 1980 and is number ten on AFI's "100 Years...100 Laughs" list. Fasten your seatbelts for the film that brought us Ted Striker's "drinking problem," Otto Pilot, jive-talking Barbara Billingsley, a feud over the uses of the red zone and the white zone, and the reinvention of the wonderful Leslie Nielsen as a comedy superstar. Surely you will have a great time. And don't call me Shirley.
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