Jerry Zucker began his career in collaboration with his brother, David Zucker, and Jim Abrahams. The team wrote and produced KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, wrote and directed the comedies AIRPLANE! and TOP SECRET!, and the television series POLICE SQUAD! They also directed the comedy RUTHLESS PEOPLE and wrote and produced THE NAKED GUN. Jerry also directed GHOST, FIRST KNIGHT and RAT RACE. As a producer, his work includes: MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING, A WALK IN THE CLOUDS, MY LIFE, FAIR GAME, FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS, MENTAL, and DEAR DUMB DIARY. Jerry’s currently working on, MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING 2 and RAT RACE 2, with his wife Janet, INTERMISSION!, a stage musical, and a children’s book based on the holographic dual of anti-desitter black hole superhorizon locality in conformal field theories. In 2004, he and Janet started Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative that raised three billion dollars for stem cell research in California. In 2008, Jerry and Janet launched The Science and Entertainment Exchange in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. and still serve as co-chairs. Jerry and Janet Zucker are co-founders of “Eyes Up”, a new initiative using the power of the entertainment industry to broaden public understanding of the rising threat media addiction poses to young minds.