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Joey, Do You Like Movies About Airplanes?
Film Society of Lincoln Center screens Airplane!, hosts Q&A session with Jim Abrahams and Zucker Brothers
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“Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.”
It’s been 30 years ago since Rex Kramer (played by Robert Stack) gave that bit of advice to Ted Striker (Robert Hays) in (possibly) cinema’s greatest slapstick film, Airplane! Written and directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker, the movie about a former pilot…eh, who cares about the plot? What makes Airplane! so great are lines like:
“What was it we had for dinner tonight?”
“Well, we had a choice of steak or fish.”
“Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna.”
Tonight at 7 p.m., the Film Society of Lincoln Center presents a screening Airplane!, followed by a Q&A with Abrahams and the Zucker brothers at the Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th St). It might be your only chance to ask the writers how they came up with something like, “Boy trapped in refrigerator eats own foot.” Surely, you wouldn’t miss an opportunity like that.
You know the rest.
Tickets cost $12 ($8 students and seniors/$7 members), and can be purchased here.