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Ffccia c&ur&sy Cct'j Flclurti ,
Richard Prycr la & eecne firezi "litre And New."
Eerier fcy 7erd T7. Triplstt III
; The years have taken their toll on Richard Pryor.
The comedian who set a new standard for black,
es well as most white comedians, in language, char
acter development and delivery, told a Lcs Angles
audience at the end of his 1C33 tour that this was it.
No more stand-up comedy. The magic and the inter
est were gone. Instead, he said, he would concen
trate on the movies. That makes perfect sense eir.ee
Pryor recently signed a C40 millicn deal with Ccksm
bia Pictures exclusively for motion pictures.
The worst part about that fa that the best Richard
Pryor movies have been the three where Richard
Pryor could be Richard Pryor, without having to
deal with a weak character trying to save a weak
film. Case in point is "Here and Now" which opened
last weekend at the Cinema 1 & 2. ...
The fJm begins with a supposedly random sam
pling of people waiting to get inside the New Orleans
Saen"er Theater, where Pryor was performing m
three" so! J-out performances in August Between
their praises of Fryer, the man himself fa shown
going through dress rehearsal, then tsMr.g about
hfa career and himself.
Then the show begins. Pryor curses at a late
comer trying to'get a seat down front. The audience,
both that at the Saenger and in the mob theater
crack up. By simply cursing, Pryor has his first
laugh. When he's actually trying, he gets plenty
more.
The film, though, is not es joke-lIed or memora
ble as "Sunset Strip" or "Richard Pryor Live". In some
cases, Pryor even repeats material from these sets.
A new routine about his 1C31 trip to Africa threads
close to the same exact words the Sunset routine
had. But this fant some struggling comedian trip
ping over himself Pryor telb the same stories, but
once he's inside a character, such as in Mudbone, it
all seems fresh and new. And of course, everyone
lauJhs.
That ability to make a character live end to make
us laugh at our own problems in regard to racism,
drugs and sex, is what makes Pryor so strong and
the film so worthwhile. Eddie Murphy, who has a
fine feature Elm showing on Heme Box QIZzz,
couldnt haw carried a Cm this wide-ranging so
well, simply because he lacks that ability. With
llurphy, you laugh at what he says and does. With
Pryor, it's that, plus you laugh at what he means.
And, Here and Now" is fZIed with meaning. Pryor
goes back to an old favorite, the wino, for a charac
terization of why he quit drinking. Only this time,
there is a sense of sorrow and hopelessness in the
poor schmuck, who wakes up underneath his car,
getting the once over from a dog, and has hi3 mouth
revolt on him when a policeman pulls him over for
drunken driving. This despite the fact that his mind
has a polite and intelligent answer prepared for the
cop.
The deepest character, however, fa another Pryor
stable, the neighborhood junkie while he was grow
ing up in Peoria, III The latest character, who tock
"about 10 minutes to answer you," fa a junkie who
wants the youthful Fryer to hold some hot watches
for him. Afterwards, he shoots up up in a dramatic
presentation that hinges cn the very funny to the
extreme scary. ' .,.
Although the routine struck me as a lecture, as
well as come of the ether warnings about alcohol
end drugs, the only dampening cLectit has cn the
fillip 1-3 it C$23 iQ lu3 CtC3T -Ut0l CCHlwdy
routines Fryer has dcveleped over the years. Bt in
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the messages, which cbyisua!y mean a let to Fryer,
Sow so well between tiie paa-stcp humsr end the
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Two mini-series highlight to
night's programming. Channel 3 fa
showing the conclusion cf the dramat
ization of Judith lirants's be-:t-seling
novel "Princess Daisy.". Newcomer
llerste Van Kamp stars as Dairy, with
such veteran performers o Dsrbara
Bach, Paul i .w&i..-'wl u.wer and Xcbert
ITrfH rf,''""'f t'l'
FD3 b alrfcg the third in its szvtn
part dramatisation . of the life of
' renowned opera composer Giuseppe
Verdi The life cf Verdi" can be seen at
0, p.m. cn Channel 12. fhh epede
examines the creative period cf VeraTs
life, when he composed three cf his
letto" and "II Trovatere."
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den Film Theatre ct 7 and 0:15 p.rx
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