Pryor talked about about having sucked a dick and “fucked some good ass-hole” back in ’52 (when Pryor was 11 or 12). And yet, angered by some racist behavior he’d witnessed backstage, Pryor also shared some harsh thoughts about his perceptions of racism (by way of indifference and whatnot) in the gay community.
Please read this excerpt from from Scott Saul‘s “Becoming Richard Pryor”, posted in the Guardian on 1.11.15.
By Pryor standards, Chappelle’s Closer material was a day at the beach.
The best part is the I Love Lucy theme at the end, played over the credits.
This is a situational set-up teaser. Wildly successful couple with a hit TV show, running their own production company, dealing with the attendant pressures. There’s one brief allusion to Desi’s adultery in a magazine headline. Nicole’s narration implies that director-writer Aaron Sorkin sees this as Lucy’s story with cheating Desi as the bad guy.
Boardner’s is not opposite the old Desilu Studios (846 No. Cahuenga) — why do filmmakers insist on trying to sell this bullshit?
I thought the chocolate assembly-line factory routine was the big classic I Love Lucy bit, rather than the grape-stomping thing.
Friendo: “Nicole’s speaking voice is a problem. That is not Lucy’s very identifiable tonality.”
HE: “Totally Nicole’s voice — no attempt to even vaguely simulate Lucy’s braying tone. Then again 97% of the audience has no idea what Lucy sounded like. Many if not most of those who watched the ’50s show are dead.”
Amazon will release Ricardos theatrically on Friday, 12.10.21. The film will begin streaming on Prime Video on Tuesday, 12.21.21.
Dune‘s Denis Villeneuve is a true film nerd….a believer, a devotional, a monk in robes. As Lawrence of Arabia‘s Dryden (Claude Rains) says to General Murray (Donald Wolfit), “He knows his stuff.”
But projection-wise, 70mm is not the best way to see Lawrence any more. Digital projection has surpassed it. There’s no question about this. I saw it digitally projected at the Salle du Soixantieme in Cannes so don’t tell me. In this respect Villeneuve is wrong.
Friendo #1: “For what it’s worth, I couldn’t get past page 50 of Frank Herbert’s Dune and thought the Lynch version dismal. But I have to say that the new Dune put me in The Zone in a way that I’m not accustomed to — I just locked into what Villeneuve was doing and more or less stayed that way to the end, quite admiring it all the way.”
Friendo #2: “Seeing Dune in a theatre is agony, an endurance test. Don’t do it. Choose the HBO Max option.”
Please listen to Joe Rogan‘s impressions of what’s going on right now. It cuts right through. The awfuls won’t listen, of course, because they’re hysterical, defensive and blind to anything but their own agenda.
Now Shiloh is thinking she might be…well, who knows what she’s thinking? But “John” seems to be history.
Friendo: “Looks like little Shiloh is a female after all.”
HE: “Aided and abetted by insane parents, many kids these days decide their gender and sexual identity at very tender ages. Shiloh can always switch back in a year or two.”
Friendo: “I think she’s just outgrown it, as a lot of them do. Which is why parents should wait until after puberty to embrace or approve their children’s gender and sexual identity matters. This, of course, is totally verboten to say in woke circles.”
