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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: anamericancarol; comedy; davidzucker; dennishopper; hollywood; jonvoight; kelseygrammer; leslienielsen; michaelmoore; parishilton; zucker
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To: uglybiker

I OWN THAT MOVIE!


61 posted on 07/23/2008 12:32:34 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Axis of Evil = Iran , North Korea , Rob and Amber)
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To: joe fonebone
This...is not...a chawade!

We need toto...concentwation!

62 posted on 07/23/2008 12:32:36 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: uglybiker
You mean it will be a Samuel L. Bronkowitz production?

Sort of a Catholic High School Girls in Trouble/Thats Armageddon combination?

63 posted on 07/23/2008 12:35:12 PM PDT by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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To: RichInOC

Farley at his best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppN-Q4fCpoQ


64 posted on 07/23/2008 12:35:37 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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To: uglybiker
We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude! We honor the traditions of our ancestors! ...
65 posted on 07/23/2008 12:35:38 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Axis of Evil = Iran , North Korea , Rob and Amber)
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To: PzLdr

You definitely are more well read than me. I cannot name drop with you!

Ever read “Warriors of the Steppe”? That one opened my eyes. Mongolian cavalry was the mechanized divisions of that era

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS269US271&q=%22Warriors+of+the+Steppe%22


66 posted on 07/23/2008 12:37:33 PM PDT by dennisw (That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
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To: cmsgop

It is a force of extwordinawy magnitude!


67 posted on 07/23/2008 12:38:25 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: Deb

Jon Voight


68 posted on 07/23/2008 12:38:36 PM PDT by DFG
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To: PzLdr

Yes it is a trilogy and judging by box office the other two will get made


69 posted on 07/23/2008 12:38:40 PM PDT by dennisw (That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
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To: DFG

Jon Voight.... all you need to know about him is “Heat”


70 posted on 07/23/2008 12:39:25 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

“Joey, have you ever been to Abu Ghraib Prison? Have you ever seen Michael Moore naked?”


71 posted on 07/23/2008 12:40:20 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Well, Michael Moore’s about as big as an airplane.”

Blimp!


72 posted on 07/23/2008 12:42:45 PM PDT by billhilly (I was republican when republican wasn't cool. (With an apology to Barbara Mandrell.))
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To: RichInOC

Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu3vqGw8lCs


73 posted on 07/23/2008 12:45:45 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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To: avacado
:-D )))

Nice.

74 posted on 07/23/2008 12:52:15 PM PDT by RichInOC (Michael Moore read "A Modest Proposal" and was disappointed to find out Swift was joking.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Awesome. If it’s a tenth as funny as Airplane! or the Naked Gun series, I’ll be laughing for days. And I’m sure it will be; skewering liberals makes for great humor. Team America had me cackling the whole time followed by days of randomly yelling “America! F*** Yeah!” : D


75 posted on 07/23/2008 12:53:15 PM PDT by According2RecentPollsAirIsGood
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To: Free ThinkerNY
For anyone who missed it....

The David Zucker Albright Ad

76 posted on 07/23/2008 12:57:40 PM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: RichInOC

And Bill O’Reilly has a small part in which he beats the crap out of Michael Moore. LOL!


77 posted on 07/23/2008 12:57:43 PM PDT by avacado
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To: dennisw

Check out my movie with Jon, “The Fixer.”


78 posted on 07/23/2008 12:59:42 PM PDT by karnage
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I hear the movie is hilarious, and pulls no punches.


79 posted on 07/23/2008 1:00:40 PM PDT by karnage
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To: TNCMAXQ
It'd be wrong to assume that there is a litmus test for every person appearing in this film. If it is like the other films he's made, it'll have a number of "name" cameos (including real life people who aren't actors).

Paris Hilton would fit that type of role. Topical guest spot.

Now if OJ comes running through the airport...


80 posted on 07/23/2008 1:02:50 PM PDT by weegee (Obama loves America like Bill loves Hillary.)
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