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'Airplane!' Director Eyes Michael Moore - (new conservative comedy blasting Michael Moore)
politico.com ^ | July 23, 2008 | JEFFREY RESSNER

Posted on 07/23/2008 11:36:33 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The comedy director who gave us such immortal movie lines as “Oh stewardess, I speak jive” and “Don’t call me Shirley” is now leveling his sights at documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.

David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” franchise has called on Hollywood’s tiny but tightly knit Republican A-list crowd to help him make a broad yet unusually right-leaning political satire titled “An American Carol.”

The low-budget indie co-stars Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer with Oscar-winner Jon Voight, cinema icon Dennis Hopper, model-heiress Paris Hilton and frequent Zucker stooge Leslie Nielsen in minor roles. Release is planned sometime by year’s end; the director suggested Friday, Sept. 12, to coincide with the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Zucker and his associates have been keeping the film under fairly tight wraps for months. When hyping the usual casting updates to showbiz trades, those associated with the production would only describe the movie as “a spoof of ‘A Christmas Carol’ and contemporary American culture,” avoiding any mention of its political perspective.

Zucker had, however, mentioned the project to a handful of reporters and talk radio hosts, telling one columnist at the Wisconsin State Journal, “It outdoes any movie I have ever done in tasteless, offensive, un-PC humor.”

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KEYWORDS: anamericancarol; comedy; davidzucker; dennishopper; hollywood; jonvoight; kelseygrammer; leslienielsen; michaelmoore; parishilton; zucker
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Note the "A" list cast. Given the miniscule budget, they have to be doing this for the pure joy of giving Mike Al-Moor (aka Lumpy Riefenstahl) the Airplane! treatment.
21 posted on 07/23/2008 11:51:41 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: TNCMAXQ
paris doesn't know which way is up. she just wants movie roles with known actors. maybe her dad is though. he seems to be.

james woods is another one i believe.

22 posted on 07/23/2008 11:51:56 AM PDT by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I haven’t been to a movie in many years but that may change now....

... me too, the last movie i went to was some Bat Man movie about some Joker.

23 posted on 07/23/2008 11:52:00 AM PDT by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: raygunfan
where do i get tix!!!!

Need you ask?


24 posted on 07/23/2008 11:52:15 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Free ThinkerNY


I'm goin' down to the river jordan I'm goin' down to the river jordan I'm goin' down to the river jordan I'm goin' down to the river jordan....
25 posted on 07/23/2008 11:53:28 AM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m there.


26 posted on 07/23/2008 11:55:04 AM PDT by Vision (The light of the body is the eye, if your eye is true all your body will be full of light. Matt 6:22)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Where can I obtain advance tickets?


27 posted on 07/23/2008 11:55:29 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Who would McQueeg rather have mad at him: You or the liberals?)
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To: thefactor

Oh yes James is another favorite of the right though he might not be much of a social conservative. Dennis Miller also.

Bruce Willis is a Republican though I don’t think he advertises it much lately. Drew Carey is another libertarian conservative type. Then there are the “GOP babes” whose pictures someone compiled on the web. Besides Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and the talking heads, that list included actresses like Janine Turner and Bo Derek.


28 posted on 07/23/2008 11:56:30 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: jimfree

The whole movie was awesome. I laughed till I cried at the scene where the people land on the giant pigeon statue and piss on it, and it takes a huge dump after they take off.


29 posted on 07/23/2008 11:56:30 AM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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To: thefactor

james woods is another one i believe.....

Yes....Along with Tom Selleck.

We need to post the “short list “ of all conservative actors.....


30 posted on 07/23/2008 11:57:08 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Free ThinkerNY
David Zucker, the director and writer who helped create “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” franchise ...

And who can forget:


Take him to DETROIT!

31 posted on 07/23/2008 11:57:18 AM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: Vision

Excellent. It’s about time.

Timed to come out prior to the election too, lol.

Isn’t there a law against that.

Breaking News: NYTimes will not publish ads for tickets.


32 posted on 07/23/2008 11:59:50 AM PDT by rbmillerjr ("bigger government means constricting freedom"....................RWR)
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To: TNCMAXQ

Some conservative musicians who are not afraid to let people know...Ted Nugent and Charlie Daniels.


33 posted on 07/23/2008 12:00:16 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Free ThinkerNY
With very special cameo appearances by Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky:

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34 posted on 07/23/2008 12:01:23 PM PDT by WrightOnTarget
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To: Deb

The only movie worth seeing in the last three months is “Mongol”. As soon it gets nearby I’ll see it. Nothing from Hollywood sucks me in any more. No surprises anymore. I can predict most of the plot twists and many of the plots are re-dos. The actors are boring and don’t become the characters

Christian Bale was great in “Shaft” but I refuse to be bored by a Batman movie. I’m too old for that garbage


35 posted on 07/23/2008 12:01:36 PM PDT by dennisw (That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Good news!


36 posted on 07/23/2008 12:06:06 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“It outdoes any movie I have ever done in tasteless, offensive, un-PC humor.”

Go for it Mr. Zucker!

I hope your movie is good and funnny enough to become known as: The “Blazing Saddles” of the 21st Century.


37 posted on 07/23/2008 12:06:07 PM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: WrightOnTarget
I gotta get out of here!
38 posted on 07/23/2008 12:07:55 PM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears..."/s)
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To: uglybiker

NO!!!! Not that!!!!Anything but detroit!!!!!


39 posted on 07/23/2008 12:09:09 PM PDT by joe fonebone (The Second Amendment is the Constitutions reset button)
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To: lesser_satan
sounds like a must-see ONCE.

There, I fixed it...my husband wants to watch Airplane every time it comes on TV, LOL! Fortunately, I designed our house with a living room with a TV and what we refer to as the "ball room"...a 14 X 27 room where the guys hang out, play video games and watch sports that has 3 TVs...so we don't argue any more about what to watch.

40 posted on 07/23/2008 12:09:13 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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