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...Ford or some equivalent purgatorial rehab. At last, fallen angel reascends to the upper air, finds new life (often new mate as well, or else peace with the truth that, hey, it's O.K. to be alone). The rebirth is celebrated on the cover of PEOPLE: Drew Barrymore, Richard Pryor, Kitty Dukakis, Roseanne Arnold, all the newly clear-eyed. After the exorcism of devils, resurrection and hugs. "I've got my life together now, Barbara. I'm more centered...
Supporters of this theory speculate that antioxidants may one day revolutionize health care. Biochemist William Pryor, director of the Biodynamics Institute at Louisiana State University, foresees screening people through a simple urine, blood or breath test to assess how much damage free radicals have done to tissue, much as patients today are screened for high cholesterol. "If you can predict who is most susceptible to oxidative stress," notes Pryor, "you can treat them with antioxidants more effectively." Ultimately, says biochemist Bruce Ames at the University of California, Berkeley, "we're going to be able to get people to live...
Leno cites all kinds of comedic models -- Alan King, Robert Klein, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor -- but his mentor in the pursuit of popularity was not a comedian but a President. "L.B.J. claimed that every handshake was worth 250 votes," Leno says, in his familiar high-pitched, nasal voice, "because each person then goes and tells someone else you're a good guy and then they go and tell more people...
...satisfy all these constituencies would seem an impossible task. At various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing a screenplay. Actors Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor expressed interest in playing Malcolm, and Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison considered directing. But nobody wanted to do the film more than...
Ironically, in Movin', an awful Richard Pryor movie some years back, Carvey played a schizophrenic who haunted Pryor. There are probably a couple of reasons for the unique pattern in Carvey's career...