Retail king Crazy Eddie was a high school dropout who once got stabbed outside a nightclub, a new book reveals.

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).

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 ...

Closely-held Crazy Eddie restarted operations in March. The newly formed Crazy Eddie bought the rights to the name, trademarks, copyrights, logos and operations from closely held DJR Holdings.

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.

(JTA) — Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics empire built on hype. Entrepreneur Eddie Antar grew his chain of discounts stores in the New York of the 1970s with unforgettably loud TV ...

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 ...

Eddie Antar was an entrepreneur who realized the highs of business success as well as the lows of fraud and running from authorities. You might not recognize his name, but if you were alive in the ...

The Crazy Eddie chain started as a single family-owned store in Brooklyn and eventually collapsed in 1987 amid federal investigations and family infighting.

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Giz has some great videos from Crazy Eddie, the guy who went nuts in New York and New England back in the 70s and 80s, selling home appliances and CE to a ...

Many people bought their first stereos at Crazy Eddie’s, which was located in the Richmond Avenue Shopping Center.