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...Beth Pryor...
...Kerns) goes off to work and his children attack him with lines like "You can't hit me, you're a liberal humanist." The only comedy to venture out of the house this season is CBS's hourlong Stir Crazy, based on the phenomenally successful 1980 movie starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. The pilot episode is cluttered with subplots and juvenile slapstick. But the show has a pair of appealing stars (Larry Riley and Joseph Guzaldo), brisk direction and more laughs than at least half of the teen films released last summer. Stir Crazy's challenge, like that...
...uninvited guests at a meager meal. Many believe the newcomers' gains come at the expense of blacks and that a "racist" system benefits the immigrants. Adding to the bitterness is the black perception that America's newest citizens are embracing one of its oldest traits, racial prejudice. Comedian Richard Pryor does a routine depicting a group of Indochinese boat people taking part in their first citizenship class. Lesson No. 1: the correct pronunciation of the word nigger...
...students. All told, they speak 38 different languages. Throughout the New York public school system, there are 113,000 such children, most of them helped along by 2,100 bilingual teachers. But P.S. 89 is singular. There, just before the end of the school year, Ann Pryor was guiding her second-grade English-language class through the basics. She asked each child the salient question, and in a dozen different accents, they answered. "I come from Japan," said Kazuko Hiraga. "I come from Afghanistan," said Omar Norzyai. "I come from China," said Thomas Chuang. "They try so hard," Pryor says...
...that having too much money is just about as bad as having too little -- could suit both the comic's style and his very public private life. Alas, autobiography and farce refuse to jell. Though John Candy (as an overweight catcher who is suggested for the position of Pryor's "designated eater") and especially Stephen Collins (as a smug, conniving wimp of a lawyer) are funny enough, the picture seems intent on drawing morals instead of laughs. Viewers may feel like demanding their own investment in the film back, and sending it to USA for Africa...