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...year's top 20. And so it goes and grows. His first monologue film, Richard Pryor Live in Concert-the one recorded in Long Beach in 1978-surprised everyone and earned $20 million. The success of that film's current sequel, Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip, is no surprise at all. Since its release on March 12, it has demolished the more expensive competition, pulling in $8 million its first weekend. Next week moviegoers will be able to see yet another facet of Pryor when Some Kind of Hero opens. In it he plays the seriocomic...
...Richard Pryors, kamikaze comic and sensitive actor, are overlapping parts of the same intricate talent. If the fates are colorblind, they will start engraving his name on next year's Oscar for his performance as that most exasperating, charming, contradictory of humans-Richard Pryor-in Live on the Sunset Strip. In craft as well as celebrity, Pryor is not merely hot; he is, as Variety has characterized him, "incendiary...
...with third-degree burns over much of his body. Even so, fire images would be in consummate bad taste if 1) Pryor thought there were such a thing as bad taste, and 2) he had not used a recitation of the event and its aftermath as the climax of Sunset Strip. In the days after Pryor was found in shock a few blocks from his Northridge, Calif., home, his attorney declared that he had accidentally ignited a glass of rum with a butane lighter. Few believed it. Stories from the rumor mill are darker and more credible...
Pryor's jokes, however, go somewhat deeper than the language he uses to tell them. During Live on the Sunset Strip, Pryor takes the opportunity to talk about sex, drugs and the condition of Blacks in America. And, he lends credibility to his jokes by drawing them from his personal experience...
...which he rather graphically simulates--and about picking up Playboy bunnies. It is standard Pryor material: offbeat, offensive and riotously funny. It does not scale the heights of his first movie. Richard Pryor in Concert, but it doesn't miss by much. Live on the Sunset Strip is the sort of movie one would want Jerry Falwell. Anita Bryant and perhaps Nancy Reagan to be chained to the front row of the theater and forced to watch with eyes propped open Clockwork Orange style. It's that rude...