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...program opened with the jazz Band, featuring Bill Thompson, a Boston musician, as the guest soloist. The Concert Band and Baron followed with Arthur Pryor's "The Bluebells of Scotland...
MARRIED. Richard Pryor, 36, zany, biting, black comedian who has his own NBC weekly show and is about to star in the film version of the Broadway hit The Wiz; and Model Deboragh McGuire, 23; he for the fourth time, she for the first; at his home in Northridge, Calif...
Variety Sonny and Cher are gone, but Donny and Marie will be back on ABC. This year Sister Osmond will forsake her clean-teen look for boots, bobbed hair and slinky high fashion. Joining the song-and-skit brigade this season: Richard Pryor, who will bring his jive, streetwise humor to a new NBC variety series, and Redd Foxx, who will sanitize his stand-up act for his own weekly show...
While he has appeared on the tube numerous times, and had his own special last May, Pryor has always been uneasy before the television camera. TV is no stranger to vulgarity, but it cannot tolerate obscenity. When he does a TV stint, Pryor must censor himself as he did in the years before his Las Vegas awakening. His friends, who think he should concentrate on movies, advised him against committing himself to the NBC series. Last spring Pryor tried to break his contract, or at least reduce his projected schedule. NBC, however, refused to let him out. Though he makes...
...only thing that has not come naturally for Pryor has been living. For several years he was hooked on cocaine, a fact he now includes in his comedy routine. "I snorted up Peru," he says. "I could have bought Peru." Married and divorced three times, he has four children-three girls and a boy. A long-term relationship seems beyond his grasp, but his main companion right now is Pam Grier, who played his wife in Greased Lightning...