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...Radcliffe, which also finished fourth a year ago, Captain and skipper Jamie Jenkins and crew member Beth Pryor finished third in the 'A' division...
...might think that the debate had already been settled by the box office performance of last year's films. Black actors starred in three of 1983's six biggest hits: Eddie Murphy in Trading Places, Richard Pryor in Superman III and Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. This summer's two out-of-nowhere hits, the rap musical Breakin' and Prince's Purple Rain, suggest that movies with black themes can attract large mixed audiences. And yet these are a few glittering tokens; for most black actors and audiences, roles and role models are scarce. Though blacks...
Compare Rollins with Eddie Murphy or Richard Pryor, and the new ghettoizing of black stars is immediately apparent. Murphy and Pryor have parlayed their popularity into lucrative deals with the major studios, but they are basically comics: hip new models of the vaudeville Negro. "I don't think the country is ready for black leading men," Murphy declares. "White guys won't accept their ladies' going nuts over a black actor." Notes Playwright Fuller: "Americans trust black people when we sing, dance or tell jokes. It's when we stop laughing that people get itchy...
...long ago he might have had a sticker plastered over his mouth that read PARENTAL GUIDANCE REQUIRED, but Richard Pryor, 43, the incendiary comic who in 1980 turned himself into a human torch while free-basing cocaine, is now host of a children's show called Pryor's Place, which debuts on CBS this Saturday morning. In a fantasy urban setting, the comedian will cavort with the Krofft puppets, tell stories about his own childhood, and impersonate several characters, including Chills, a hip saxophone player, and Carlotta, a savvy fortuneteller. The weekly half-hour may be a long...
...feels, he deserves the signed photograph of Hemingway that decorates his study. Says he: "I learned to write from For Whom the Bell Tolls." But, he concedes, "my attitude's different. I see humor everywhere. The fact is, I'm probably closer to Richard Pryor." The accuracy of his work comes from dogged research. Glitz, the novel in progress, is set in Atlantic City. Before he went there himself, Leonard's assistant, Detroit Film Writer Gregg Sutter, had collected interviews with dealers and policemen and delivered 180 sequential photographs of the entire town. The American speech that...