Becoming Richard Pryor - Saul Scott
Becoming Richard Pryor - Saul Scott A major biography--intimate, gripping, revelatory--of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood…
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Becoming Richard Pryor - Saul Scott
A major biography--intimate, gripping, revelatory--of an artist who revolutionized American comedy.Richard Pryor may have been the most unlikely star in Hollywood history. He took to the stage, originally, to escape the hard-bitten realities of his childhood, but later came to a reverberating discovery: that by plunging into the depths of his experience, he could make stand-up comedy as exhilarating and harrowing as the life he'd known. Raised in his family's brothels, he grew up an outsider to privilege.
The major studios considered him dangerous. He brought that trembling vitality to Hollywood, where his movie career--Blazing Saddles, the buddy comedies with Gene Wilder, Blue Collar--flowed directly out of his spirit of creative improvisation. Audiences felt plugged directly into the socket of life.Becoming Richard Pryor brings the man and