Danny DeVito is set to direct “Crazy Eddie,” a pic based on the life of consumer electronics king Eddie Antar. Peter Steinfeld (“21”) is penning the script, about the man who launched the successful ...

Anyone who grew up in the New York/New Jersey area in the ’70s and ’80s remembers Crazy Eddie. It was an electronics retail store chain that had the most memorable and obnoxious commercials ever. So ...

Three decades after it collapsed under the immense weight of a historic securities fraud, the true-life legend of consumer-electronics king "Crazy Eddie" Antar is still embedded in the popular culture ...

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 ...

Founded by Eddie Antar, Crazy Eddie was a chain of consumer electronic stores in the Northeast. After going public in the 1980s, the stock became nearly a 10-bagger before investigators found it to be ...

Note: Before a 33-year career in journalism, reporter William Westhoven spent seven years working for Crazy Eddie, finishing as a store manager in 1987. He previously broke the news of Eddie Antar's ...