Eddie Murphy‘s “Harlem Nights” is an uninspired cross between “The Cotton Club” and the characters of Damon Runyon, told in cliches so broad you keep waiting for it to poke fun at itself, but it never does. The movie starsRichard Pryoras a Harlem speakeasy owner and Murphy as his ...
“Harlem Nights” (citywide) opens with something shocking for an Eddie Murphy movie: unintentional humor. In glamorous script, the credits announce that this is a Paramount presentation, in association with Eddie Murphy Productions . . . of an Eddie Murphy film, starring . . . Eddie Murphy. ...
“What I saw was amazing,” Diaz told me in 2014. “To see 75 black and Latino kids in the centers enthusiastic about coming in after school; to see them with their big duffel bags full of equipment that, by the way, was donated and readily-available to them free of charge; to see...