* Eddie Antar, founder of Crazy Eddie, who has about $ 1 billion worth of judgments against him stemming from fraudulent accounting practices at that company.

In early 1973, Gambino's nephew Emmanuel " Manny " Gambino was kidnapped by Thomas Genovese ( a distant relative of Vito Genovese ), James McBratney, " Crazy " Eddie Maloney, Warren " Chief " Schurman and Richie Chaisson.

" Crazy Eddie " is the name of a consumer electronics retailer conducting business through the Internet and by telephone.

The venture is the most recent to be doing business under the Crazy Eddie name, with the most well known ( and later infamous ) being a chain of retail stores that operated throughout New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut for nearly twenty years.

Crazy Eddie was started in 1971 in Brooklyn, New York by businessmen Eddie and Sam M. Antar as ERS Electronics, named after Eddie, his cousin Ronnie ( Ronnie Gindi, a partner ), and his father Sam.

At its peak, Crazy Eddie had 43 stores in the chain, and earned more than $ 300 million in sales.

In February 1987, the U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey commenced a federal grand jury investigation into the warranty billing practices of Crazy Eddie.

In September of that year, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission initiated an investigation into alleged violations of federal securities laws by certain Crazy Eddie officers and employees.

A Crazy Eddie T-shirt with artwork by Robert Crumb.

The predecessor to Crazy Eddie was a consumer electronics store called Sight and Sound.

Due to his extremely aggressive sales techniques, Eddie quickly became known as " Crazy Eddie.

In 1971, the Sight and Sound store on Kings Highway was renamed Crazy Eddie.

Eddie continued his high-pressure sales tactics with the renamed Crazy Eddie store, but this time met with success.

In 1973, Antar opened the second Crazy Eddie location in Syosset, New York.

Crazy Eddie was known for its humorous advertising campaign, featuring Jerry Carroll.

In 1972, WPIX-FM late-night disc jockey Jerry " Dr. Jerry " Carroll ended a live commercial with the now-famous slogan, " Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE!

Among the more memorable promotions featured by Crazy Eddie was the annual " Christmas in August " sale.

Carroll's acting was so convincing, and he became so identified with the company that many people thought he was actually Crazy Eddie.

One commercial spoofing Superman implied that Carroll really was Crazy Eddie ; this drew the ire of Warner Communications, the parent company of the distributor of the Superman film series, who sued the chain over the commercial.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

Steamboat Willie became an instant success, and Plane Crazy, The Galloping Gaucho, and all future Mickey cartoons were released with soundtracks.

Like its counterpart Montmartre, Montparnasse became famous at the beginning of the 20th century, referred to as les Années Folles ( the Crazy Years ), when it was the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris.

In 1928 Plane Crazy became the first entry into the Mickey Mouse series, however it was not released because of a poor reaction from test screenings and failed to gain a distributor.

Reception to Crazy Taxi has been mostly positive and it became one of the few Sega All Stars.

During the 1930s became the regular home for The Crazy Gang.

As the company's fraud became harder to cover up, the public perception of Crazy Eddie as a commercial success began to change.

The Antars ' bid was dropped, and Zinn became the new owner of Crazy Eddie on November 6, 1987.

In mid-1995, Morrison released his debut single, Crazy, which became a Top 20 hit in the UK.

This use of the term crunk became synonymous with the meaning " Crazy Drunk ".

He was the voice of Pete Puma in the 1952 cartoon Rabbit's Kin, in which he did an impression of an early Frank Fontaine characterization ( which later became Fontaine's " Crazy Guggenheim " character ).

Parts 1 – 5 of " Shine On You Crazy Diamond " became a staple of Pink Floyd's live performances from 1987 until 1994.

The first draft of the show was called Crazy Week, which became Hard to Get, and finally Anything Goes.

Legend ( 1978 ), the Cotton-Young album with cover art by graphic artist ( and later comedy actor ) Phil Hartman, subsequently became the group's most commercially successful album, containing two Top Twenty hits, " Crazy Love " written and sung by Rusty Young ( which also had a seven-week run at Number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart in early 1979, the biggest hit on the AC chart that year ) and Cotton's " Heart of the Night ".

Pat Boone became the first rock and roll teen idol in 1955 with heavily Pop-influenced " covers " of R & B hits like " Two Hearts, Two Kisses ( Make One Love )," " Ain't That a Shame, and " At My Front Door ( Crazy Little Mama ).

However, the band eventually began recording again and released Get a Grip in 1993, which became their most successful album worldwide, selling over 15 million copies and producing a series of hit singles (" Livin ' on the Edge ", " Cryin '", " Eat the Rich ", " Amazing ", " Crazy ").

Earl V. Shaffer ( November 8, 1918 – May 5, 2002 ), was an American outdoorsman and author known from 1948 as The Crazy One ( and eventually as The Original Crazy One ) for attempting what became the first documented hiking trip over the entire length of the Appalachian Trail ( AT ).

As a result of his Crazy Eddie commercials, Carroll became a significant 80s icon, even appearing in the film Splash.

Although their first hit, " Crazy ' Bout You, Baby ," was written by Maugeri and Barrett themselves, they quickly became specialists in cover recordings of originally-R & B songs.

Their first album, simply titled Laid Back, was released in 1981, and the single " Maybe I'm Crazy " became a number-one hit in Denmark.

", an attempt to make the programme palatable to BBC officials by connecting it with the popular group of theatre comedians known as The Crazy Gang.

Throughout the 1850s, Judah was known as " Crazy Judah " for his idea to build a railroad through and over the wall of mountains known as the Sierra Nevada, a project which many people at the time considered impossible.

* January 11 – William Gentles, US army private, known for killing Crazy Horse ( d. 1932 )

He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father in the Coneheads family ; with Steve Martin, Georg Festrunk, one of the " Two Wild and Crazy Guys " Czech brothers ; sleazy late-night cable TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway ( who extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the " Bag-o-Glass " toy, perhaps the retail leader of the " Bag-o " series of toys ); Fred Garvin – male prostitute ; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

He and Iwerks would go on to develop a new cartoon in secret, which would later be known as Plane Crazy, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Gun Crazy was selected for the National Film Registry, and is also known as Deadly Is the Female.

For the show's final season ( 1972 – 1973 ), Rowan and Martin assumed the executive producer roles from George Schlatter ( known on-air as " CFG ", which stood for " Crazy Fucking George ") and Ed Friendly.

Console versions of the game also feature a mode known as Crazy Box, a set of minigames that feature challenges such as picking up and dropping off a number of customers within a time limit, bowling using the taxi as a ball, and popping giant balloons in a field.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Shellshock said that the track known as " Starry Eyed Surprise " was created after the pair met at a Crazy Town show.

Crazy Town ( also known as CxT ) is a rap rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1995 by Bret Mazur and Seth Binzer.

Spoons, also known as Pig or Tongue, is a fast-paced game of matching and bluffing family of card games of the Crazy Eights group, closely related to Craits played with an ordinary pack of playing cards and several ordinary kitchen spoons or various other objects.

Their best known hit songs are Tomorrow Nation, Paradise and Love Crazy.

Crazy Eddie's board of directors lost control of the company in November 1987 after a proxy battle with a group led by Elias Zinn and Victor Palmieri, known as the Oppenheimer-Palmieri Group.

The commercials were so memorable that HBO's news parody series Not Necessarily the News created a parody TV commercial featuring a caricature of Oliver North ( from the then-infamous Iran-Contra affair ), known as " Crazy Ollie ", selling used weapons at bargain prices.

On February 23, he faced fellow Mexican Super Crazy on the debut show of Ring of Honor known as The Era of Honor Begins to crown the first-ever IWA Intercontinental Champion.

Crazy Chief's lead guitarist and bassist are well known as the owners of Cowtown Guitars, a vintage guitar store in downtown las vegas, and their singer also fronts a Doors cover band in Las Vegas.

Joseph Edgar Foreman ( born July 28, 1974 ), better known by his stage name Afroman, is an American rapper who came to prominence with his singles " Because I Got High " and " Crazy Rap ".

* Tadashi Masumoto, known by the stage name " Crazy Cool Joe " ( bassist of Dead End )

He was best known as the organist for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster.

* Black Jack ( card game ), also known as Switch, a name given to some variations of Crazy Eights in United Kingdom