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The next Richard Pryor?Who can play Richard Pryor? People say that only Eddie Murphy can mimic the late comedian. Others have pointed a finger at Mike Epps. But don't sleep on Marlon Wayans, the youngest of the Wayans family clan. He certainly has the potential and the self-determination. With the film "Richard Pryor: Is It Something I Said?" expected to go into production in late 2011, Marlon will play the lead and is already on the road, doing the work before the work begins, so to speak. More » |
'Memphis' on Broadway recaptures 1950s soulNew York - Last year, the late pioneer D.J. Dewey Phillips (who died of heart failure in 1968 at the age of 42) was rewarded with a brass note on famed Beale Street in Memphis. A white disc jockey who loved all music, Phillips - also known as "Daddy-O-Dewey" - played an eclectic mix of blues, R&B, country and dance records on WHBQ radio and WHBQ-TV/13 that helped to integrate American radio and television music in the late 1940s and all through the 1950s. More » |
