Word: talentless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer is much better and much more appropriate for Murphy. He does play a single character who assumes an additional role or two during the course of the film. But he also appears in a variety of sly cameos throughout the film: a garrulous old barber, a schmaltzy, talentless R&B singer and even (thanks to renowned make-up wizard Rick Baker) an old Jewish New Yorker...
With such a collection of heavy-trendy names involved, one would hope that high quality production values would compensate for an insipid script and talentless acting. But if any money was spent on Blue City, it's tough to see where it went. The outtakes from Miami Vice have got to look better than this...
Richard W. Larson's Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger simply rehearses all that coverage again. It is less a book than a 303 page True Detective article--with none of the cheap thrills. Larson seems a dogged but uninspired or talentless young reporter responding to a hard-boiled chief detective's "Gimme all you've got"; he has lots of facts and is obviously a tireless reporter, but it all just sits there. The Deliberate Stranger isn't a book; it's the murder file on Bundy, a shapeless compilation of everything Larson knows about Bundy, which isn't that much...
...Black female celebrity is pretty, or sexy, or married to a White man, she is called a talentless whore. If she's elegant or highbrow or intellectual, she's pronounced funny-looking, uptight, or in need of a good brutal fuck. If she happens to appeal to a White audience, she is despised. If she's independent, physical, or aggressive, she's called a dyke...