Once upon a time, “Crazy Eddie” Antar was your basic borderline psychotic consumer electronics salesman who insisted on being in his own commercials (I’ve included one below). His empire eventually grew to 43 stores and he even took his company public, becoming a brief “Wall Street sensation.” But then, *cue Behind the Music music*…
“He’d been skimming money and falsifying inventory to inflate stock value. Losing control of his company in a hostile takeover, Antar went on the lam after the new owners uncovered his financial shenanigans and the SEC charged him with stock fraud. He fled to Israel — where he’d deposited millions of dollars — only to be extradited three years later. He ultimately served a prison term that ended in 1999 and was ordered to pay $150 million in fines.” [Variety via /Film]
And now Danny DeVito is directing a movie about his life. From a script by 21‘s Peter Steinfeld. Wait, what? Peter Steinfeld who’s also written Be Cool and Analyze That? I realize it’s pretty easy for a studio and/or director to ruin a script, but even for cheesy Hollywood crap this guy’s movies seemed especially shittily written. How do they decide this stuff, do they just play pin the tail on the hack?
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Settle down, big guy. I wasn’t done looking at Matt McC.
I once lost control of my company in a hostile takeover. I was really pissed off, because I had to walk back home through the projects alone.
*floor hatch opens, chodin crawls up and into thread*
Oh man, it’s bad down there…I’m talking about my diaper, of course.
The role of a Wall Street Sensation? Cast Mark Wahlberg. He can feel it, feel it. Plus he can piss on it.
Somewhere Nic Cage just got a boner thinking about this film. HOW’D IT GET SOLD! HOW’D IT GET SOLD!
Aw fuck this Crazy Eddie guy. Devito should do a movie about this dude from my high school we called Crazy Fredrick. Fredrick spent most of his days trying to get flexible enough to suck his own dick and shitting in his parents coffee mate coffee maker. Now that was a crazy motherfucker.
“Crazy Eddie” is what my friends and I used to call my next door neighbor. In his defense though, the kid did have autism.
Peter Steinfeld copyrights his scripts with a juice box stain on the front cover.
You can usually spot a Peter Steinfeld script from miles away. His screenplays are the ones written on goddamn construction paper and bound together with purple shoelace.
SEC charged him with stock fraud
Meanwhile, Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas is being charged with cock fraud.
A Peter Steinfeld script is the prize you find inside a Grape Nuts cereal box.
Why is there macaroni and sparkles glued to all of his scripts?
Peter Steinfeld: “Oh man, I just stepped in some ink!”
Chodin: “Pete, that’s dog shit dude.”
Danny Devito needs a booster seat for his director’s chair.
Maybe it’ll be a short film
I’ll be saving my $9.50 for the Tom Carvel biopic.
FYI, the actual Eddie who owned the stores was not in the commercials. The guy portray Crazy Eddie in the commercials was a local radio DJ.
Note to self: When committing stock fraud and fleeing from the American government, don’t go to a country that’s only ally is the American government.
Why Israel? I mean… I just don’t see any significance whatsoever.
The film will be financed with taxpayer money.
BANNER PIC: Looks like Crazy Eddie is in the middle of a Crazy Prostate exam.
Peter Steinfeld does things for Danny DeVito that should best be kept from the prying eyes of man. Scripts included.
Enron’s Ken Lay calls this the feel good movie of the year.
Isn’t that rich. Israel extraditing a guy for monetarily fucking people over.
He should have changed his last name to Antarstein.
Tickets for this movie will start at $9.50 but will drop to $2 by the fifth day.
In the bedroom, Rhea Perlman refers to her husband as the Mayor of Munchkinland.
I bet he went to Israel cause the Plane ticket was $1.18 cheaper than going to a country with a non-extradition treaty. Typical Israeli.
Isreal wasn’t planning on extraditing him until he invited the parliament over for dinner and served them pork flavored ramen noodles.
CNBC’s Jim Cramer thinks you’re insane if you don’t hold on to your Crazy Eddie’s stock. IT WILL REBOUND!!!
Lince is just steamed because he hasn’t had a tail pinned on him yet!
Satan: “Now Pete, are you absolutely sure this is worth it? I mean, sure you’ll be rich, but you’ll have to work for FOX?”
Peter Steinfeld: “Just let me sign the fucking contract.”
*Satan leans over to Hitler*
Satan: “That’s one fucked up dude.”
Burnsy, everything is funded with taxpayer money. Hope and change, motherfuckers!
The Mighty Feklhar cannot see the vid, does he “club a baby seal to make a better deal”???
He ultimately served a prison term that ended in 1999
He then went to Best Buy and shit himself due to the overwhelming lack of cassette players on display.
Since prison, he now goes by the much more humble nickname, Rapee Eddie.
File this one under price-slasher flicks.
The warning sign should have been Crazy Eddie describing his products as “like Sony” and having “Sony guts.”
Disco, DEESCO, Disco, DEESCO…
Crazy Eddie currently resides on the curve of the road in an old tar-paper shack.
Call him crazy, but Eddie totally knew that Kevin Spacey was gay before anybody else… and really was an alien in K-PAX.
that’s not him in the commercials, the guy playing crazy eddie was a new yourk dj named Jerry Carroll – I used to listen to him I think he was on wnew