Word: pryor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harder They Come and Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones--Friday and Saturday at 12:10 a.m.; with Richard Pryor Live in Concert at 12:15 a.m.; Orson Welles Cinemas
...thinks Bruce Lee is a cool dude, but "Richard Pryor is the Man," says Baby Love. "He got power." The violence Baby Love sees on the screen is not much different from what he faces on the street. He was 13 when he first saw a man blown away-with a shotgun. He has faced down a few gunslingers himself. He sometimes carries a .25 automatic. "All my friends got guns," he says. "We go and try and shoot birds in the park." Trees are beaten to death in ghetto parks. Youngsters, too, get killed on summer evenings when there...
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...
...deeper ecstatic "rush" that comes from "freebasing," smoking a chemically treated form of the powder. The large, concentrated doses used in freebasing require even more money than the straight powder, which is one reason why the practice has been more prevalent among highly paid celebrities such as Comedian Richard Pryor and former Dallas Cowboys Linebacker Thomas ("Hollywood") Henderson (see box page...
Still, there is Pryor. Whether he is trying to keep up his nerve while holding up a television store, getting the Ku Klux Klan to help push the bus out of the mud, or merely riding a horse for the first time, he has an indestructible charm. Another comedian might grow desperate in such unpromising circumstances. Not Pryor. The easy subtlety of his glances and gestures, never too big, always wonderfully readable, almost convinces one that something worthwhile is happening here-or is about to. One remains alert to his possibilities. And wishes that the people who make his pictures...