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...Wertmuller's original notion of a weak character disintegrating under economic pressures gets lost in all the commotion. It may be worth mentioning, however, that Pryor's characterizations have nothing to do with the cool black humor of such modern comics as Bill Cosby and the late Godfrey Cambridge. He plays eye-rolling, foot-shuffling, minstrel-show darkies, with a bit of ghetto fast-mouth thrown in. On the other hand, the audience in which this reviewer sat was 90% black, and everyone seemed to be having a great time...
...push out Cosby, or any of the other black comedians-Redd Foxx, Dick Gregory, Flip Wilson, Godfrey Cambridge-who achieved fame in the '60s. But Pryor did find room in the spotlight, and by the middle of the decade he was appearing on the TV talk shows and pulling golden gigs in Las Vegas...
...Godfrey. Through Tuesday, at 6:24 and 9:45, with Midnight...
...houselights dimmed in Detroits Cobo Hall last week, the concertmaster signaled for the oboist's A, and the strings and woodwinds went about the squeaky business of tuning up. Then like something out of an old Esther Williams spectacular, Conductor Godfrey Salmon rose 14 feet in the air atop a hydraulic podium. Silence reigned for a good second or two before the cries came from the audience: "Rock 'n' roll!" "Get it on!" "It's boogie time...
...likes to play with 16 hooded falcons, which go for $3,000 a throw. Sheikh Zayed of Abu Dhabi, President of the United Arab Emirates, has "a palace or two" in Pakistan, where he hunts for two months every year, and London digs with four-figure faucets designed by Godfrey Bonsack of May fair. Then there is the ruler of Dubai, who likes to hoist up his skirts-all the way-and then see which courtier will be the first to mention the royal flash. Linda of Arabia deals in crashing generalities. "Arabs are hypochondriacs," she offers en passant. Bahrain...