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...tension between the negative messages of his comedy and his desire to play a positive role in the world is surprisingly plausible. Although the movie is, according to the press notes, inspired by “Wattstax,” a legendary concert film starring Isaac Hayes, Richard Pryor, the Staple Singers, it also vividly recalls “The Last Waltz,” Martin Scorsese’s record of The Band’s last performance. Like “Waltz”, “Block Party” is filled with amazing musicians linked...
When he broke into TV in the mid-1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley...
...unknown MAMMAL; after being photographed by remote cameras installed by the World Wildlife Fund; in a rain forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. If confirmed as a new species, the bushy-tailed, civet-like creature would be the first new carnivorous mammal discovered in Southeast Asia since 1930. DIED. RICHARD PRYOR, 65, celebrated American comic revolutionary; of a heart attack, in Encino, California. Pryor's comedy re-created the street characters?winos, pimps, junkies?he had grown up with. His no-holds-barred acts were matched by a private life that seemed an unending soap opera?outbursts of violence...
...filibuster--nuclear-option scenario during the battles over federal appeals-court nominees earlier this year, and they met last week to affirm their belief that only "extraordinary circumstances" would justify a judicial filibuster. If at least five Senators from relatively conservative so-called red states--like Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska--can be convinced that Alito is not outside the mainstream, the thinking goes, then any chance of a filibuster would be off the table...
...Tribute” in the middle of the album. A shining example of the difference a good producer can make (DJ Noize in this case), the track mixes samples of the best of Dirt Dog with Ghostface, Nas, schoolchildren shouting “ODB!”, Richard Pryor, and “Four Weddings And A Funeral.” It has to be heard to be believed. Dreddy Kruger, the Wu satellite member behind the whole venture, fails to really understand that classic Wu-Tang is the true source of the “indie culture?...