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Eddie Murphy: Nutty Professor
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One of the most successful comic film stars of the 1980s with films that have grossed more than $1 billion, Eddie Murphy began his stand-up career at age 15, Funny, they say, is hard. Funny floats in the ether and only the chosen can snatch it down. So, to be the funniest of them all is a challenge few can rise to. Steve Martin did it, Robin Williams too. On a more underground tip, there were the late greats Sam Kinison and Bill Hicks. And, of course, there was Eddie Murphy, king of early-Eighties comedy and, amazingly, with the sequels to the enormous popular Dr Dolittle and Nutty Professor, still a major contender today.
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Synopsis: Eddie Murphy gives one of Jerry Lewis' best-remembered vehicles a 1990s overhaul in this hit comedy. Sherman Klump (Murphy) is a college professor and respected biochemistry researcher who is kind, considerate, and a genuinely nice guy. Sherman is ... appallingly overweight; coupled with the factRead More
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In July 2000, Jackson returned to the big screen, with her second film, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, opposite Eddie Murphy. She ... contributed to the film's soundtrack with the track, "Doesn't Really Matter", which became Jackson's ninth number one pop hit. In March 2001, Jackson was awarded a top honor American Music Award 'Award of Merit,' and became the first honoree of MTV's Icon celebration, which resulted in performances featuring Destiny's Child, N'Sync, Pink, Mýa, Usher, Macy Gray, Britney Spears and others.[22] Jackson's seventh album, All for You, was released on April 24, 2001. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 selling 605,128 copies making All For You the biggest first-week sales total of Janet's career and would go on to sell more than three million copies in America. The album's title track debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at #14, the highest debut ever for a single that wasn't commercially available.[23] and topped the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for seven weeks. "All For You" also made radio and chart history when it was added to every pop, rhythmic and urban radio station that reports to the national trade magazine Radio & Records.
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Eddie Murphy stars as a grossly overweight chemistry professor in this update of the classic 1963 Jerry Lewis comedy. Eager to reinvent himself and ease his loneliness, the professor develops a potion that magically transforms him into a lean mean sex machine, capable of seducing any woman in sight....
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Murphy's work as a voice actor includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek series and the dragon Mushu in Disney's Mulan. In some of his films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character, which he calls a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers (who is famous for playing multiple roles in one film), films which Murphy has played multiple roles include Coming to America, Wes Craven's Vampire In Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films, where he played much of the Klumps clan, Bowfinger and 2007's Norbit. Another trademark of Murphy is his deep, infectious, and considerably goofy laugh. One other trademark of his is his catchphrase "how you doin'!"
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Everything is coming up roses for Professor Sherman Klump (Eddie Murphy). His fiancee, the equally brilliant Denise Gaines (pop music star Janet Jackson), loves him for his prodigious mind. Sherman's university has just been offered $150,000,000 for the radical new youth serum Sherman has developed....
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