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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...