Anniversaries “And don’t call me Shirley”: “Airplane!” at 40 Four decades later, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker's pitch-perfect disaster spoof is the template for the absurdist movie parody.
Filmmaker of the Month Queerness and the Small Subversions of “Big Business” The Bette Midler/Lily Tomlin mistaken-identity comedy played a curiously strong role in one writer's journey to queerness and leftism.