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?
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…
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…
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…
Original Publication: Newsweek, August 8, 1977 Last year’s “The Bad News Bears,” about a hapless Little League baseball team in California, directed by Michael Ritchie, was a new kind of…
Original Publication – Newsweek, August 8, 1977 The style of LA GRANDE BOURGEOISE is too elegantly overwrought for the story it tells. Beautifully crafted, the movie often plays like a…