Airplane? Surely, there were better ways to promote Wisconsin
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Wisconsin has reached back 34 years to promote its tourism industry.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Robert Hays -- two stars of the movie, "Airplane" -- reunited for a parody to promote Wisconsin:
David Zucker, the director of the film, graduated from UW Madison.
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This isn't his first crack at promoting Wisconsin. Two years ago, he produced this:
There were other possibilities that Minnesotans might have come up with.
Robert Hays, for example, could have been depicted extolling the virtues of Wisconsin while a passenger doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire...
Your move, Minnesota.
