H-wood Conservatives Coming Out Of The Closet: David Zucker To Take On Michael Moore

An “awakening“? Life in the stagnant, sludge-stained pond that is Hollywood? ‘Airplane!’ director eyes Michael Moore by JEFFREY RESSNER - (Politico) 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... [read full story]