Word: bustin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They call the play "Veer A O Sucker," and it sure gave Brown a licking. "You false pull the guard and you get the fullback bustin up there," explained Restic. Don't worry, if you don't understand: the Bruins didn't either. When the guard pulled, the linebackers followed, the Brown sea parted and Ernst, now Harvard's leading rusher, raced off for the promised land...
...than my movies," Comedian Richard Pryor, 43, once said. All too often critics unhappily agreed. If Pryor's films do not live up to his potential in the future, however, he'll have no one but himself to blame. The star of such box office hits as Bustin' Loose and Stir Crazy has just signed a $40 million contract with Columbia Pictures that a studio spokesman describes as "one of the best deals in the industry today." The agreement gives Pryor the chance to write, produce and act in four films over the next five years, with...
...Crazy, the comedy in which he co-starred with Gene Wilder as a bumbling convict, was the No. 3 moneymaking movie of 1981 and, except for National Lampoon 's Animal House, the most successful comedy in industry history. Pryor's other 1981 film, the sugar-and-spice Bustin' Loose, was also a moneymaker, establishing him as the only star to have two films in the year's top 20. And so it goes and grows. His first monologue film, Richard Pryor Live in Concert-the one recorded in Long Beach in 1978-surprised everyone and earned...
MARRIED. Richard Pryor, 40, actor-comedian (Bustin' Loose, Stir Crazy), who only 15 months ago nearly perished in a fire; and Jennifer Lee, 29, songwriter and actress (The Sunshine Boys); he for the sixth time, she for the first; in Maui, Hawaii...
Considering his box office strength, one would think that Pryor could command the creation of vehicles to match his gift. Or perhaps he likes being the best thing about a picture, since he functioned as his own producer on Bustin' Loose, and it is, if anything, more inept -certainly more overtly sentimental -than his other films. In his new movie Pryor plays a sometime con, forced by his parole officer to drive a bus from Philadelphia to the State of Washington if he wishes to avoid a return to jail. The passengers are the lawman's fianc...