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...outlines of "The Nutty Professor" go back to our old pal(s) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and, more specifically, the Jerry Lewis classic by the same name. In this version, however, the professor, Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy, thanks to seamless makeup) consumes a formula that cures both the excessive frumpiness and (in a twist on the original film) lumpiness that he believes might hamper his success with an attractive young grad student (Jada Pinkett). The new Klump, under the alias Buddy Love, proves devious and reckless in his pursuits, threatening the research money sought so assiduously by the unctuously...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Murphy as Jeckyll, Hyde, and Their Randy Grandma | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

Klump's new identity consists of a smaller waistline and an enormous ego--in truth, a highly concentrated version of early Eddie Murphy himself. Klump/Love is literally a pivotal role for Murphy. At one moment, he is playing Sherman Klump as a full and sympathetic character, a performance where others might have relied on the novelty of girth. A splitsecond later he turns around and goes back to his old tricks until they self-destruct. The now-tired, brazen "Beverly Hills Cop"-type character of old--outrageous and obnoxious arrogance, hilarious, often vulgar one-liners--is exaggerated and mocked...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Murphy as Jeckyll, Hyde, and Their Randy Grandma | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...character before our eyes and demonstrating other abilities through Klump, he isn't helped by the generally low-grade comedy that pervades much of the film. Boring flatulence jokes gradually steam roll over the otherwise superbly sick Klump family portrait (a lewd grandmother talking forever of "relations"; Sherman's babying mother who believes a baby's first step unimportant compared to his first roof-rumbling belch). Soon Klump's post-transformation celebration turns idiotic and offensive; it's as if "Eddie Murphy Raw" took over and started telling stand-up jokes about women's exercise...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Murphy as Jeckyll, Hyde, and Their Randy Grandma | 7/16/1996 | See Source »

...chronic illness. I have been able to turn a lengthy medical treatment with severe side effects into a time of spiritual growth. My dream is for my health insurance to pay for a one-week stay at Chopra's new healing center in La Jolla, California. JOSEFINA RUIZ Sherman Oaks, California Via E-mail

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1996 | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

Once upon a more recent time, a 400-lb. biochemist named Sherman Klump confronted the opposite problem. He wanted to shrink and have sculpted pecs, or anyway be hot and hip--sort of like, well, Eddie Murphy on speed--and after a little genetic engineering, he realized that somewhat less woeful wish. Thus was a remake, central to the hope of restoring Murphy to the core of our comic consciousness, born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE FUNNY PROFESSOR | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

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