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The sequel to Eddie Murphy's smash hit family comedy, DR DOLITTLE, will certainly not disappoint fans of the first film. Murphy returns as the doctor, who has now garnered some measure of fame for his communication abilities, at least among the animal kingdom.
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Long before Murphy did any writing for Coming to America, Art Buchwald had approached Paramount Pictures with the idea for a similar film. His material was rejected, but the information was retained by Paramount. They liked Buchwald's idea but did not see fit to pay him and saved it for use later down the road. Some years later, Paramount presented the idea of Coming to America to Eddie and gave him the contract. Murphy wrote a screenplay that came to light exactly as it aired on the silver screen. In 1988, Buchwald sued Murphy and Paramount Pictures, but Murphy was not found liable because Paramount had received the material and plagiarized it before giving it to Eddie.
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[F]unnyman Murphy’s display of solidarity did not end there. He ... asked the WGA strike captains to picket outside the set of his 2002 film THE ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH so he could refuse to cross that picket line as well. “You guys have a time machine, right?” Eddie kept asking. “You writers are smart. One of you has to have figured out the space-time continuum thing. Like David E. Kelley.
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