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Considering his box office strength, one would think that Pryor could command the creation of vehicles to match his gift. Or perhaps he likes being the best thing about a picture, since he functioned as his own producer on Bustin' Loose, and it is, if anything, more inept -certainly more overtly sentimental -than his other films. In his new movie Pryor plays a sometime con, forced by his parole officer to drive a bus from Philadelphia to the State of Washington if he wishes to avoid a return to jail. The passengers are the lawman's fianc...
...this discontinuity between the image he desperately wants to project and a reality that is considerably less grand, Richard Pryor has created, in such otherwise indifferent movies as Silver Streak and Stir Crazy, what may be the current screen's most appealing comic persona. His style may come from the ghetto, but his screen character is an everyman offering a sometimes poignant, but always funny, commentary on male fantasies of knowledgeability and bravado...
...They do not spin whimsical stories of urban childhoods, like Bill Cosby and George Carlin. They do not deal in analysis and self-hatred, like Woody Allen and Rodney Dangerfield. They do not refract their rage in race-and-reefer jokes, like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. They do not tell topical or political jokes, like Johnny Carson. Indeed, they rarely tell jokes or stories at all. They do not talk about their mothers, their wives, their egos. Their past is a mystery; their presence is perplexing. They may be the first generation of comics to forgo the funnyman...
Other figures committee members said it was considering two weeks ago included Vernon Jordan, former Rep. Robert Drinan, Richard Pryor, Andrew Young, Alan Alda, Lily Tomlin, Garry Trudeau, and Gloria Steinem...
...reason for the lack of opposition, as was learned by the many Congressmen and Senators who spent the Lincoln's Birthday recess with their constituents, is that the home folk share Reagan's belief that the Government cannot keep piling up deficits. Democratic Senator David Pryor warned constituents in Arkansas to expect severe cuts in the budget for the Farmers Home Administration, which extends credit to rural people who have trouble borrowing elsewhere. Their answer, according to Pryor: "Inflation is our worst enemy. If that's what it takes, we'll support it even...