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Jerry Zucker
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Songwriter Born: March 11, 1950 in Milwaukee, WI Biography:Milwaukee-born filmmaker "Jerry Zucker" attended Shorewood High School with his older brother, "David". It was there, in student variety shows, that the Zuckers began displaying the lampoonish Mad Magazine-style humor that would distinguish their later work. While attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the Zuckers' longtime family friend "Jim Abrahams" founded the Kentucky Fried Theater comedy troupe, which by 1978 had gained enough industry prestige to bankroll the zany sketch film "Kentucky Fried Movie" (1978), directed by "John Landis". The film set the future Zucker standard: wild parodies of movie genres played out by an utterly straight-faced cast, looney non-sequitur jokes and running gags filling each frame, hilarious celebrity cameos, and outrageous (and endearingly childish) visual puns. On the strength of "Kentucky Fried Movie"'s 20-million-dollar take, the Zucker/Abrahams team... Full Biography
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