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Crazy Eddie Antar, the man behind the Crazy Eddie retail chain, filed for bankruptcy in 1989 and fled the country with six passports (in five different names) and around $43 million in cash. He ...
Even the Crazy Eddie logo for then-copious print advertisements, of a spike-haired guy in a bow tie, was lifted from the cartoonist Robert Crumb (though his long nose also suggests Pinocchio).
DeVito planned to direct and produce Crazy Eddie, but he said the project could not be made because of a life rights deal he made with Antar. Rights wrangling is always tricky.
EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has set up Insane, a film based on the wild life of Eddie Antar, the late consumer electronics king who wound up serving six years in prison for perpetrating one of ...
In the mid-1980s, Crazy Eddie became entangled in one of the largest fraud scandals in United States history. The scheme persisted for 18 years. If you’ve never heard of Crazy Eddie, also known ...
The Crazy Eddie chain, which closed in 1989, didn’t just execute one big scam, it ran dozens of them at once. The company, for several years, pocketed sales taxes.
The Crazy Eddie chain was known for its ads featuring a maniacal pitchman who touted "Our prices are insane!" Antar started working in Brooklyn, and the chain eventually grew into 43 stores.
Crazy Eddie was a New York-based chain of more than 40 electronics retail stores, known for its bombastic television commercials (“His prices are insaaaane!”).
The Crazy Eddie chain was known for its ads featuring a maniacal pitchman who touted "Our prices are insane!" Antar started working in Brooklyn, and the chain eventually grew into 43 stores.
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