Writer-director Jim Abrahams, who co-wrote and co-directed some of the most iconic comedy films of the 1980s including “The Naked Gun” and “Airplane!” (aka. “Flying High”), has died. He was 80. Abrahams died of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica according to his son Joseph in a statement issued to THR. Together with […]

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Let me know as soon as there’s any change in his condition.

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I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

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RIP to a legend.

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Surely I will remember him fondly.

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Of course you will, but don’t call me Shirley.

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Thank you. We had to do it.

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The man has given me a lot of great laughs. A life well lived and not soon to be forgotten.

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