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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

STARTING OUT Weiss got his start at the Hartford Courant, covering small-town Connecticut. He later moved to a wire service in Washington, D.C., where his role was “business editor of some kind.” That ...

If you lived in New Jersey or New York in the 1980s, it would be hard to forget “Crazy Eddie.” The retail electronics chain was famous for its loud and goofy commercials featuring radio ...

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 ...