EXCLUSIVE: Pulling together life rights deals to make fact-based feature films can be insaaaaaaaaaaane. In fact, rights problems have essentially killed Danny DeVito’s feature film about the ...

Author Gary Weiss joins the podcast to talk about this colorful stock scam. Founded by Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie was a chain of consumer electronic stores in the Northeast. After going public in the ...

The Crazy Eddie electronics chain, at its peak, numbered a respectable 43 stores from Philadelphia to Boston, but in the mid-1980s the discount retailer enjoyed an astonishing 99% name recognition ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) - Eddie Antar, the founder of the Crazy Eddie electronics retail chain known for its hugely popular TV commercials in the 1970s and 1980s, and later brought down by a massive fraud ...

Sure, his prices were insane, but for a generation of TV and radio fans, Crazy Eddie's commercials in the New York City market in the '70s and '80s were outrageous and outrageously fun. "Crazy Eddie" ...

If you lived in New York during the ’70s and ‘80s, the “Crazy Eddie” commercials were as ubiquitous as they were annoying. Plugging a chain of discount electronics stores by the same name, the spots ...

Sam A. Antar, nephew of the crook behind the epic Crazy Eddie scam, last week settled a federal securities-fraud case from his New Jersey prison cell. Antar, a former Upper East Side resident, agreed ...