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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     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     Browse Catalog     by author:      Saul, Scott.       by title:      Becoming Richard Pry...       by call number:      792.7028 P973s     Search the Web     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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 792.7028 P973s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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