Word: earls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signed him to a three-year contract for shows he will direct, produce or appear in. Coming to America is the first in a lucrative five-film deal with Paramount Pictures. Murphy also hopes to direct The Butterscotch Kid (a comedy starring Arsenio Hall) and co-star with James Earl Jones in a film version of August Wilson's drama Fences. Says Jerry Bruckheimer, who co-produced both Cop movies: "He's such a wanna-see guy -- you wanna see what he'll do next. If he was available, there'd be a wild melee of people trying...
...seems to be browsing through the scenes rather than gobbling them down. As a result, a cast of excellent black actors -- about whom Murphy in his role as producer has been making justifiably proud noises -- is rather let down. John Amos as the upwardly mobile hamburger mogul and James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair as Zamunda's reigning monarchs are all obviously eager to cut loose, yet have almost no opportunities...
...James Earl Jones shows an unexpected comic side as Akeem's royally out-of-touch father, who delivers such lines to his pampered son as, "I tied my own shoes once. It is an overrated experience." Shari Headley, as Akeem's dream queen, is pleasant, but her character is as upright as Akeem, which means that she is funny only because she is ignorant of Akeem's true identity...
Last month, on the same day he was fired as Baltimore manager, Cal Ripken Sr. pleaded guilty to drunken driving, a familiar Oriole road that Earl Weaver had swerved down before him. A manager is scarcely a manager if his nose has never required batteries. Tommy Lasorda, who for insurance reasons has removed the beer keg from his Dodger Stadium office, tells some funny stories about the huge consumers he has managed -- not including the ones who had to take time to dry out, like the young pitcher Bob Welch. Interestingly, Newcombe had approved of Lasorda's office...
Comfortable with crime, prisoners become viciously suspicious of what they view as an unjust society. "The system is collapsed. There's a breakdown," explains Earl Williams, one of the few prisoners who has attended college...