Indianapolis Welcomes “Airplane! Live” With Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty

Dateline: Friday, May 15, 2026 -- Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover: my wife Anne and I do stuff for each other's birthdays! Usually it's a road trip somewhere outside our hometown of Indianapolis. This year for my birthday, we attended something completely different: the very same weekend, Indy would be the first stop on a repertory roadshow tour for Airplane!, that 1980 parody classic from the young directing team of Jerry and David Zucker and Jim Abrahams. I trust it needs no introduction regarding the incessant goofiness and wall-to-wall gags that cemented its legacy as a critical comedic ancestor to The Simpsons and all the works it influenced in turn, to say nothing of its mythic status as a touchstone to today's retro Dad-Joke culture. I rarely see old films in theaters -- as I recall, the only other time I've done so in this blog's 14-year existence was the 4K re-release of Die Hard -- but this event sweetened the pot: following the screening would be a Q&A with stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty, who so wondrously brought to life the roles of disgraced war pilot Ted Striker and sweet-natured stewardess Elaine Dickinson. We said to each other, "Surely they can't be serious." […]

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May 13 : Silly but Brilliant
#Bales2026FilmChallenge #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬
#Airplane (1980)
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
#RobertHays #JulieHagerty #LeslieNielsen
#KareemAbdulJabbar #LloydBridges #PeterGraves

David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker – „Die unglaubliche Reise in einem verrückten Flugzeug“ (1980)

Es gibt Filme, die haben einen Plot. Und es gibt „Airplane!“ Was David Zucker, Jim Abrahams und Jerry Zucker hier 1980 veranstaltet haben, war kein freundliches, harmloses Parodieren für ein Teenagerpublikum. Es war ein Frontalangriff auf Autorität, Pathos und die sakrale Aura eines Flugzeug-Cockpits. Spoiler: Absolut alles ist immer auch Bühne. Und niemand unter den Anwesenden verlässt den Film unversehrt. Mich hat er für ein ganzes Leben deformiert. Ich habe es genossen! (ARD, Wh.)

Zum Blog: https://nexxtpress.de/mediathekperlen/jim-abrahams-david-zucker-jerry-zucker-die-unglaubliche-reise-in-einem-verrueckten-flugzeug-1980/

Wow. Turns out there was a series sequel to the movie #Starman. It starred #RobertHays. Anybody remember it? Was it any good?