Word: chris
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Start with the pain. 'Cause we all know pain is what makes things funny. So start with the hurt, back when comic-actor-author-ad pitchman Chris Rock was li'l Chris from Bed-Stuy, just another black kid from a poor black neighborhood bused to another poor section of New York City because the school there was mostly white. Go back to the white kids spitting on him, week after week, calling him n______ this, n______ that, picking fights. And poor white kids, he says, are tough. They're not like your suburbanized white kids; they got all this...
...Chris Rock isn't just getting the last laugh, he's getting the biggest laugh, the gettin'-paid laugh. Maybe he had to get whupped upside the head by some sixth-grader to get here, maybe he had to play a bellhop in Beverly Hills Ninja, but he has arrived and is on Hollywood's hot list...
...comedy-fantasy due out early next year called Dogma, which also stars buzzed-about actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and is directed by hot indie filmmaker Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy). On Aug. 21, Rock begins a new season of his critically lauded, superhip HBO talk show, The Chris Rock Show. And Rock recently finalized a deal with HBO to develop new specials and series for the cable channel. "HBO has been known for breaking top comedians, and Chris is the most important to come along in a long time," says Chris Albrecht, president of original programming...
...might hope Eddie Murphy's new comedy would have some of the coarse elan of The Nutty Professor--its parading of his gift for mimicry and disguise. But here he's a physician who not only can talk to the animals (voiced by Norm MacDonald, Albert Brooks, Chris Rock and other familiars) but also has to listen to every cocky word they say. So this very active actor must be mainly reactive. And there's not much humor in 85 minutes of Eddie going...
...imagine the anxious speculation when Chris Carter's terrific series, which has turned the paranormal and paranoidal into Sunday-night morality plays, becomes a theatrical movie. Will the canonical secrets (about, say, Mulder's lost sister Samantha, purportedly abducted by aliens when she was nine) be explained? Will the show's dense mythology, replayed in the feature film, confound those ignorant of the backstory? Will the film disappoint the X-philes, the most demanding fans around...