Richard Pryor is in movies, on records and on television. Nonetheless, the question remains: can the hottest black comic around remain true to his angry self and make it as a superstar in mostly white America?
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Original Publication: Newsweek – September 12, 1977 By Maureen Orth with Paul Brinkley-Rogers in Los Angeles When Jean-Luc Ponty was 3 and growing up in the small Normandy town of…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, September 5, 1977. Maureen Orth with Peter S. Greenberg in San Francisco How could it miss? The star is Liza Minnelli. The director is Hollywood’s wunderkind, Martin Scorsese…
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Original Publication: Newsweek, August 22, 1977 Maureen Orth with Martin Kasindorf in Los Angeles Twice a year – at the beginning of summer and just before Christmas – Hollywood goes…
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It was the legend of Elvis that mattered to the fans who came to Memphis to say
goodbye.
For over a year, one of Hollywood’s most successful directors, Francis Ford Coppola, had been shooting “Apocalypse Now,” a film about the “untouchable” subject of the Vietnam war. Life on the set – four different locations in the Philippines – also escalated quickly to apocalyptic dimensions.
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