When a jittery Richard Pryor emerges from underneath a desk in Uptown Saturday Night, playing a black private eye who is not a sex machine to anybody, a jolt of adrenaline shoots into this sluggish comedy that keeps it wired long after he’s gone. In a virtuoso sendup of Shaft-style cool, he agrees to find a missing wallet, but not [...]
Richard Pryor Celebrated in BAM Film Retrospective, ‘A Pryor Engagement’
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Richard Pryor’s Daughter, Rain, Does Solo Broadway Show
August 20, 2012 | Posted by
Make no mistake: Rain Pryor, the star of the autobiographical solo show “Fried Chicken and Latkes,” is not just defined by her father, the comedian Richard Pryor. She most definitely is her own woman. But she sure does one hell of an impersonation of her dad. There are many dimensions to this robust, ebullient performer, [...]
