Richard Pryor : live in concert /...

Richard Pryor live in concert / produced by Del Jack and J. Mark Travis ; directed by Jeff Margolis.

Richard Pryor : the life and legacy of a "crazy" Black man / edited by Audrey Thomas McCluskey.

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- "He wasn't afraid to get naked in front of people": Michael Schultz remembers Richard Pryor / Audrey Thomas McCluskey -- Time warp movies: a review of Superman III (1985) / Pauline Kael -- Richard Pryor live on the Sunset Strip (1994) / Pauline Kael -- Richard Pryor: the real Slim Shady (2001) / Rob Sheffield -- The new comic style of Richard Pryor (1975) / James Alan McPherson -- Jive times: Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, and the theatre of the routine (1974) / David Felton -- Richard and me (1994) / Nelson George -- Hill street bullshit, Richard Pryor routines, and the Real Deal (1997) / Bob Avakian -- Now's the time: the Richard Pryor phenomenon and the triumph of black culture (1998) / Siva Vaidhyanathan -- A Pryor love: the life and times of America's comic prophet of race (1999) / Hilton Als -- Conclusion: we owe a debt to Richard Pryor / Audrey Thomas McCluskey.…”

Richard Pryor: Icon / PBS (Firm).

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That nigger's crazy / Richard Pryor. by Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005

Furious cool : Richard Pryor and the world that made him / David Henry and Joe Henry. by Henry, David, 1958-

Rethinking childhood / edited by Peter B. Pufall, Richard P. Unsworth.

Table of Contents: “…Advertising and marketing to children in the United States / Enola G. Aird ; Children's lives in and out of poverty / Karen A. Gray ; Children of divorce / Jan Pryor and Robert E. …”
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John Steinbeck's East of Eden / CBS Operations, Inc. ; Barney Rosenzweig Productions ; Mace Neufeld Productions ; Viacom Productions ; produced by Barney Rosenzweig ; written by Richard Shapiro ; directed by Harvey Hart.

The best of Chevy Chase / Broadway Home Video, inc.

The Routledge companion to African American theatre and performance / edited by Kathy A. Perkins, Sandra L. Richards, Renée Alexander Craft, and Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Table of Contents: “…Patrick Johnson -- Standing up : Black feminist comedy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Katelyn Hale Wood -- My name Mudbone : what i learned about playwriting from Richard Pryor / Howard L. Craft -- Ntozake Shange and the choreopoem / Nicole M. …”
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We killed : the rise of women in American comedy / Yael Kohen. by Kohen, Yael, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Headlining -- Lily Tomlin, Bette Midler, Richard Pryor, and more -- Prime time : headlining -- Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett, Marlo Thomas, Bea Arthur, Valerie Harper, and more -- In the spot : Carol Burnett -- Saturday night live : the boys' club. …”

Kiss me like a stranger : my search for love and art / Gene Wilder. by Wilder, Gene, 1933-2016

Brewster's millions / Universal ; a Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver production ; a Walter Hill film ; screenplay by Herschel Weingrod & Timothy Harris ; produced by Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver ; directed by Walter Hill.

Lost highway / CiBy 2000 présente ; a CiBy 2000/Asymmetrical production ; produced by Deepak Nayar, Tom Sternberg, Mary Sweeney ; written by David Lynch & Barry Gifford ; directed by David Lynch. by Badalamenti, Angelo

The age of movies : selected writings of Pauline Kael / edited by Sanford Schwartz. by Kael, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…or, The Numbers ; The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith ; The Man Who Made Howard Hughes Sing [Melvin and Howard] ; Used Cars ; Religious Pulp, or The Incredible Hulk [Raging Bull] ; Atlantic City ; Hey, Torquemada [History of the World, Part I] ; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer [Blow Out] ; Pennies from Heaven ; Shoot the Moon ; Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip ; E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial ; Up the River [Fitzcarraldo, Burden of Dreams] ; Tootsie ; Memory [The Night of the Shooting Stars] -- from State of the Art. …”

Taking it all in / Pauline Kael. by Kael, Pauline

Table of Contents: “…Flag Nag -- Four Friends -- My Dinner with André -- Absence of Malice -- Shoot the Moon -- Melted Ice Cream -- One from the Heart -- The Border -- The Man Who Understands Women -- Personal Best -- Carry Your Own Matches -- Quest for Fire -- Missing -- Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man -- Francesco Rosi -- Three Brothers -- Comedians -- Diner -- Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip -- Deathtrap -- Rhapsody in Blue -- Diva -- Audience Pleaser -- Victor/Victoria -- Cat People -- A Devil Wihout Fire -- Mephisto -- Fighters -- Smash Palace -- Annie -- Rocky III -- The Pure and the Impure -- E.T. …”

The Duke Ellington reader / edited by Mark Tucker.

Table of Contents: “…Carnegie revisited (1943/1944). 49. Richard O. Boyer : "The Hot Bach" (1944). 50. Ellington : "Certainly it's music!" …”