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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For example: "14 Duvall, Robert $0 $1,000 Conservative 8"
Nick: Hillary. What does it mean?
Hillary: She whose bosoms defy gravity.
Hillary: What does Nick mean?
Nick: Nothing. My dad just thought of it while he was shaving.
I can't tell you how many times I have watched that flick. At one time I knew all of the words to Skeet Surfin'.
The scene where they’re in the cow costume...priceless.
Du Quois: Nigel made me go back to the meter shed. He ordered me to set off the alarms.
Deja Vu: And what does he want us to do now?
Du Quois: Nothing you numbskull, Nigel's the traitor!
I drank beer with Leslie Nielsen in a Myrtle Beach bar one night reciting lines with him from the Police Squad TV series (right before the first film came out). Luckily for me he was indulgent of a fan and hung out with us for about 1/2 hour. Probably helped that he was drinking a little more than moderately that night. ;-)
Ultimate anti-PC plot point, if they have the balls to do it, is have OJ playing “President Obama” in the movie.
MONK get in here this too funny of material if he get this done
Thanks. Check out Witless Protection on DVD - it is funny and very politically-incorrect. Larry is a blast.
I didn’t mean What became of her later? I meant Why isn’t she in that photo?
Jack Germond will play Michael Moore? I thought he died.
“Coincide” doesn’t mean it has to fall on the very day.
Ebert co-wrote a couple of movies for Russ Meyer. He used a pseudonym on some.
They were: Beyond the Valley of The Dolls, Up!, Beneath The Valley Of The Ultrvixens and the unfinished Sex Pistols’ movie Who Killed Bambi which was co-written with Russ Meyer and Malcom McClaren.
I think Roger’s wife was an actress in BTVOTUV. Russ got Roger a number of women.
Rex Reed made a movie once too. He was in Myra Breckenridge.
Funny how when these critics got a chance to work on the set they went blue.
I thought Harry Knowles and the geeks at Aintitcoolnews.com were on top of all genre movies in production.
Somehow this one is flying underneath their radar.
I believe Gerald McRaney (Simon & Simon, Major Dad, etc.) and his wife, Delta Burke, are also pretty conservative, pro-troop, and registered republicans.
I’m afraid Voight is a little too drug-addled to be counted on, but I appreciate him speaking out for the war. That was a total surprise.
Movies open on Fridays (except for big, studio event movies that open on Wednesdays). It’s as close as he could get.
I HIGHLY recommend “Vantage Point”. The critics hated it which should tell you something.
My favorite comedy...ever. I love “Airplane!”
Chris Farley’s brother will be playing the Michael Moore character. Check out this week’s Weekly Standard for pictures.
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