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Yesterday's phenom, today's ho-hum. A few years ago, Richard Pryor was the comic everyman of movies and the top black box-office draw. But the pictures he made at machine-gun pace were too ordinary to sustain his eminence. He was still a star, but in spite of his work, not because of it. Worse, a new black phenom, with just as much on the ball and a better batting average, stole Pryor's thunder. Now he works in the shadows, a batting practice pitcher for All-Star Eddie Murphy...
Brewster's Millions shows Pryor borrowing bits of the Murphy magic. Walter Hill directed Murphy's first hit, 48 HRS. Harris and Weingrod wrote Murphy's funniest movie, Trading Places. Their plot, based on the old George Barr McCutcheon wheeze, has an aging minor-league pitcher bequeathed $300 million on the condition that he spend $30 million in the next 30 days...
...long time ago (1979) in a mythical land (Hollywood), a producer named Robert Evans had a dream: to make a $20 million spectacle about Prohibition-era gangsters operating out of a legendary Harlem nightclub, to cast Al Pacino and Richard Pryor as the stars, and to direct it himself from a screenplay by Mario Puzo. But Evans wanted financial as well as creative control of the film. So he snubbed the studios and went elsewhere for money. He made a deal with an Arab arms merchant but returned the dough. He wooed a bunch of Texas oilmen, but that deal...
StateCandidates Raw Vote % of Vote % of Precincts Alabama (D) 706,298 63 85 Albert Lee Smith (R) 409,981 36 Alaska John Havelock (D) 253 496 58 56 Ted Stevens (R) 185 913 42 Arkansas E--David Pryor (D) 253,195 58 56 Ed Bethune 185,913 42 Colorado Nancy Dick (D) 195 396 37 47 E-Pill Armatrong (R) 333 917 62 Delaware E-Joseph Biden (D) 147 056 60 100 John Burns (R) 97 903 40 Georgia F-Sam Nunn (D) 871 023 82 75 Mike Hicks (R) 189 668 18 Idaho Pete Busch...
...Bird, move over. Rose Bird has come, for one show at least, to children's TV. The chief justice of California's Supreme Court makes her television acting debut next week on Richard Pryor's Pryor's Place. Well, she didn't have to act too much. Justice Bird, 47, plays-what else?-a judge in a segment that deals with the fears of children whose parents are divorcing. "I think any program that helps make the courts less frightening to children whose parents are getting a divorce is worthwhile," said Bird. She was invited...