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Blacks, whites, men and women: all fall before Pryor's humor, which can sometimes be, Cohen notwithstanding, about as compassionate as a firing squad. As the Rev. James L. White, dressed in silver sequins and high-heeled silver boots, he takes on all black TV and radio preachers. The Rev. White disdains little black dollars from little black folk. Says he: "We're looking for the Billy Graham dollars." Changing into a medal-encrusted uniform, Pryor is Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada, the man of the mad, murderous giggle. "I love American people," says the field marshal...
...feels guilty, something of a crosspatch, for raising even a minor caveat about this engaging, low-key, low-budget movie, full of nice people, bouncy car chases, vroomy racing sequences. Scott is played with a sort of quizzical intelligence by Richard Pryor in a performance very different from his equally effective role as the jivey thief in Silver Streak. There is about Pryor, and the picture as a whole, both earnestness and the sense to throw it away; though if you stop to think, Scott's career-even if it was not precisely as set forth in the film...
Neither the author nor her fictional women find that backstage role wholly satisfying. Bitsy Pryor, the efficient wife of a Democratic Senator, is appalled at the prospect that he may run for President in 1976; it would kill her budding career as a radio and TV advocate of women's rights. After 40 years in Washington, Miss Emily, wife of a retiring Senate chairman, is terrified at having to return to a home she no longer knows. Reporter Tiana Briggs, who turned her society column into solid news, aches for the son she lost in a broken marriage...
...DeMarco, Dartmouth 3-2 35 35 2.57 Backus, Columbia 4-1 27 2/3 25 2.93 Thomas, Navy 4-2 39 1/3 40 3.20 Leonard, Penn 2-1 25 24 3.24 Scully, Army 1-3 27 26 4.00 Dutkowsky, Cornell 3-2 35 1/3 46 4.33 Pryor, Yale...
Somehow, the old kitsch was missing. Oh, Chevy Chase took a dive-and i a giant envelope from a hairy Kongian hand. Marty Feldman smashed a statuette to smithereens. Richard Pryor yelled, "Hey, everybody in Peoria, it's me." But basically, to the chagrin of camp followers everywhere, they played it straight, even to the point of inviting Norman Mailer and Lillian Hellman to give awards. Missing were Bob Hope, John Wayne and most of Old Hollywood; New Hollywood (whose spokesperson increasingly seems to be Jane Fonda) was so in evidence that even onetime McGovernite Warren Beatty observed that...