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. ...
In the dismal 1989 Harlem Nights (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.) Eddie Murphy, who also wrote and directed, eases himself into a stiff, waxy persona as a 1930s ladykiller, club host, gambler and gunman extraordinaire. The kids get to play dress-up in the 1992 Far and Away (ABC Sunday at ...
Apollo aired here at 10 PM on Saturday nights; in contrast, Showtime would air at 1 AM on Sunday (technically Monday) mornings. It never stood a chance and only lasted one year. After that, the show moved to California and went through a heavy revamp as Live in Hollywood, keeping only...
People inside and outside IHIH stress that its goal isn’t about building good hockey players. It’s about building good people. Levy’s voice filled with pride recently when he talked aboutMalik Garvin,who he use to coach on cold Harlem nights at Lasker. ...
A Look Back at Tommy Ford’s Career: from Harlem Nights to Hit ’90s Sitcom Martin //players.brightcove.net/416418724/default_default/index.min.jsFans said goodbye to Tommy Ford on Wednesday when the actor died at the young age of 52.Born Thomas Mykal Ford, the actor was hospitalized ...
I have a bit of an issue with ‘Jesus’, which may say far more about me than Queen. I remember feeling very embarrassed about the song’s religiousness and I used to always turn it right down every time I played it, lest my hippy parents heard it and got concerned over my spiritual...
else she’d talked to. She had an epiphany: “You know what? I could do a better job selling this.” Suggs got her real-estate sales license by the end of the year, turned part of the parlor floor of her new building into an office, and started selling houses on nights and ...