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Saul, Scott.
Subjects
Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005.
Comedians, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Actors and actresses, Black -- United States -- Biography
Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
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Saul, Scott.
Pryor, Richard, 1940-2005.
Comedians, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Actors and actresses, Black -- United States -- Biography
Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
MARC Display
Becoming
Richard
Pryor
/ Scott Saul.
by
Saul, Scott.
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]
Call #:
792.7028 P973s
Subjects
Pryor
,
Richard
, 1940-2005.
Comedians, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses, Black -- United States -- Biography.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Actors and actresses, Black -- United States -- Biography
Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
ISBN:
9780062123305 (hc.)
0062123300 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xvi, 586 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-563) and index.
Summary:
"There's no shortage of people who care intensely for
Richard
Pryor
(1940 - 2005), people to whom
Pryor
's comedy became a window through which to view the world around them, wherever they were in the 70s. Those who loved
Pryor
during his heyday formed an intimate bond with him as an artist. They felt as teenagers in the 60s felt about the Beatles, that they were coming of age with
Pryor
and through
Pryor
; that he was their guide into experiences they might not have the courage to explore on their own. And because he confessed so disarmingly to things that would have shamed them, they felt they knew him in spirit though not in fact. This biography gives us the chance to discover the overlooked particulars of his life and its deeper story -- that he was raised in a brothel in Peoria Illinois, by a mother who was a second generation madam. That he saw from an early age the pressures of race, and the frivolity of it. That he moved to Greenwich Village with barely the shirt on his back. While most comics of the 70s have either become mainstream Hollywood stars (Robin Williams, Steve Martin) or cultural footnotes (
Richard
Klein, Elayne Boosler),
Pryor
retains his aura as a fearless black entertainer who could take all the feelings of being an unlovable outsider and package them into the most magnetic act around. No doubt he savored the irony of being recognized by a government that had earlier, through the FBI, targeted him as a public threat.
Becoming
Richard
Pryor
is a very serious and very thorough account of what made him who he was"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
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