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With good roles for black actors something of a rarity, Lou Gossett, 47, is being offered just about every part that isn't suitable for Richard Pryor, 42, or Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military...
...reason. Enter a triad of villains-Megamogul Ross Webster (Robert Vaughn), his ugly, scheming sister Vera (Annie Ross) and his "psychic nutritionist," the alluring Lorelei Ambrosia (Pamela Stephenson)-and one nebbishy computer genius gone astray. His name is Gus Gorman, and since he is played by Richard Pryor, two things are certain: Gus will be on Superman's side in time for the climax, and the film will turn a healthy profit before the summer is over. Screenwriters David Newman and Leslie Newman, who have worked on all three Superman movies, are canny enough to bring Pryor on early...
Nevertheless, he hopes someday to produce feature length films in the tradition of the Afro American storyteller or "griot" One of Hudlin's current inspirations is Richard Pryor, whom the senior calls a 'modern day griot. Hudlin says there could be an audience for Black films and not just the one third of the movie going population that is Black. "We can get people to come to our films," he says. "But before they're going to listen to any message they've got to be entertained That's why I use humor. The first step in the politics...
...better than my movies," Comedian Richard Pryor, 43, once said. All too often critics unhappily agreed. If Pryor's films do not live up to his potential in the future, however, he'll have no one but himself to blame. The star of such box office hits as Bustin' Loose and Stir Crazy has just signed a $40 million contract with Columbia Pictures that a studio spokesman describes as "one of the best deals in the industry today." The agreement gives Pryor the chance to write, produce and act in four films over the next five years...
...steel mesh so that the precious drips of melting coke are fully burned. A butane torch may be used, although a lighter or plain matches will do, to apply steady heat on the pipe's bowl and vaporize the free-base. (Accidents, not surprisingly, are common. Comedian Richard Pryor nearly died in 1980 in a mishap at the end of a free-basing binge: his rum spilled, ignited and set his clothes on fire...