Word: vulgarizer
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...hours before he had to backtrack, admitting that perhaps the movie was too violent for children under 13 or 14, after which attention faded. We may finally be entering a period when flogging values issues creates less and less of a stir. Yes, people are disgusted with vulgar entertainment and its impact on society, and yearn for a simpler time. But to look to government to allay those concerns is to divert it from the things it can do. While the religious right was busy with prayer in classrooms, enforced motherhood for pregnant teenagers and a boycott of Disney, Americans...
Levy conducted a series of interviews with his profane and grandiloquent subject (favorite quote: John F. Kennedy was "one of the great [extremely vulgar synonym for ladies' man] of all time. Except for me") until the famously volatile comedian blew up at a semitough question about The Day the Clown Cried, his unfinished 1972 film drama about the Holocaust. (Disclosure: Levy's chapter on the making of The Day the Clown Cried relies heavily--and with due credit--on a magazine article I wrote on the subject for Spy.) Levy certainly doesn't shy away from psychobiography: Lewis' demanding though...
Eddie Murphy is dead. Long live Eddie Murphy. In his latest movie, the erst-while superstar delivers a captivating, many-sided performance that ironically succeeds most when Murphy exaggerates and demonizes the very character that launched him to stardom--the brash, vulgar fast-talker able to one-up anyone. But returning constantly to the lower end of the roller coaster -- bathroom humor and insipid romance -- the movie acquires a wearying, frustrating rhythm of unbearable idiocy alternating with high-quality hilarity...
...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 in the form of the unrepentant, vaguely evil Buddy Love...
...afflicted with a full range of noisy mental and digestive disturbances--gather for dinner, they (Or should we say he, since Murphy is playing all but one of them?) constitute the funniest comedy ensemble in recent memory. This is an American family with only one value: tell the vulgar truth about everything, be it sex, talk shows or the price of airline tickets. They are particularly choleric about our obsession with calories. Nothing green and leafy is permitted at their groaning board, and exercise consists largely of lurching for seconds...