Word: pryor
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...with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made a couple of its disarmingly nasty contributions: sleaze (as in, "There was a lot of sleaze at the party," meaning much...
Variety hews more closely to accepted journalistic standards than the Reporter. When Variety moved offices in 1972, outspoken Editor Thomas Pryor literally had a wall constructed between the business and editorial areas to discourage advertising salesmen from trying to influence coverage of their clients. "If you print something worthwhile, you get respected," says Pryor, 70, editor since 1959. "If you don't, you become a house organ." In fact, while both papers yearn to be taken seriously as tough, independent journalistic enterprises (and both have shown grit and knowledge in covering events like the ouster in July of embattled...
Just to make sure that Superman III will have legs of steel at the box office, the film's producer has come up with a co-Caped Crusader: Richard Pryor, 41. In a part the folks at DC Comics never dreamed of, Pryor plays Gus Gorman, a computer wizard who dons tablecloth and skis for a lame demonstration of his own superpowers. Sm3 takes mild-mannered Clark Kent back to his high school reunion and a rekindled romance with Lana Lang, played by Annette O'Toole, 30, (Cat People). O'Toole may be beautiful...
...change this man is getting the credit he is due. It is pleasant to find someone who can be entertaining during these Reaganomic times. Richard Pryor speaks the truth onstage and is amusing...
...truly glorious that a dark man like Pryor can make a dark world seem so bright. Let's hear it for the miracles of modern medicine...