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Before he was doubling over audience members with profanity-laced sketches and stories... igniting a comic revolution, Richard Pryor was a young joke man struggling with his identity. In the late 1960s and early 1970s Pryor transformed himself from a nonthreatening, middlebrow comic to a controversial, X-rated sensation, and in turn forever transformed the landscape of comedy in the process. For the first time, those contrasting worlds have been brought together on Evolution/Revolution: Early Years (1966-1974), a 2-CD set chronicling the groundbreaking metamorphosis that predated Pryor's 1974 breakthrough album, That Nigger's Crazy.
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Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, Roosevelt Grier and Robert Hooks are the members of an all-black WWII commando squad with no combat experience, a contemptuous white topkick (Stephen Boyd), and a suicide assignment deep behind German lines! AKA: "Carter's Army." 90 min.
Richard Pryor has multiple sclerosis, but he is so adamantly opposed to the use of animals in researching disease that he used his Christmas card last year to discourage donations to charities that still fund such tests. He's been honored by PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, for saving baby elephants in Botswana targeted for circuses. And last year, as the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was preparing to open at Madison Square Garden, Pryor gave the Big Top's first African-American ringmaster something to think about.
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The 17”x 13” black framed case holds the clap-board used on the movie set for Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, staring Richard Pryor, has the original handwritten message from Richard Pryor to his camera man on the clap-board. The clap-board ... comes with a photo of Richard Pryor directing that is suitable for framing and a Letter of Authenticity signed by Jennifer Lee Pryor. Don’t miss out on this chance to own an authentic piece of entertainment history!
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Plot Synopsis: Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union during one of their demonstrations. Afterwards he leaves his wife and family behind which ... includes Leroy's father (also played by Pryor) to go to Los Angeles. He ends up working for the same company that fired him back home. He is a manager at the company but he is now distant from his former pals. He meets and falls in love with Vanetta who is a labor organizer which leaves him splitting time between his wife back home and Vanetta.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Richard Pryor didn't tell jokes. He became them. Sometimes, the effect was pure hilarity, like the time he jumped off the stage in the middle of his Vegas act, took off his clothes, walked into the casino and hopped on a table yelling "Blackjack!" Most of the time -- and even in that casino joke, if you think about it -- Pryor's comedy came wrapped in barbed wire, write Senior Writer Marc Peyser and National Correspondent Allison Samuels in the December 19 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, December 12).After he nearly burned himself to death in a fire started by a crack pipe, he created a bit where he played the crack pipe, which taunted him on the joy of getting high. And then there was his indelible cast of characters: junkies, hustlers, winos. They were angry, proud, insecure, profane -- people no one found funny before.
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