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Becoming Richard Pryor

Becoming Richard Pryor

Saul, Scott

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies General

ISBN10: 0062123327
ISBN13: 9780062123329
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Dec 8 2015
Pages: 608
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Becoming Richard Pryor is a book that breaks new ground. . . . Saul details the amazing way that Richard found his way out of the life for which he seemed destined and into the world of the performing arts. --New York Times

Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. Raised in his family's brothels, in Peoria, Illinois, by a grandmother who often threatened to kick him upstairs with her size-twelve shoes, he always considered himself a bottom dog. He took to the stage originally to escape the tough realities of his childhood but later discovered he could alchemize his stand-up by delving fully, even painfully, into the off-color life he'd known. He brought that vitality to a movie career whose best moments--Blazing Saddles, Blue Collar, the buddy comedies with Gene Wilder--flowed directly out of his spirit of creative improvisation. The major studios considered him dangerous. Audiences felt plugged directly into the socket of life.

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