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12-10-2005, 03:28 PM
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Richard Pryor passes away
Not sure which area of the HTF this belongs to, so I'll try here. According to his website, Mr. Pryor has passed on.
http://www.richardpryor.com/
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Iconic comic genius, Richard Pryor is dead today at 8:35 after a 19 year battle with multiple sclerosis.
Born Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, on December 1, 1940 the multi-talented star was pronounced dead of a cardiac arrest at 8:00 am at a hospital near his home.
He is survived by his wife Jennifer Lee Pryor and his six children; Richard Junior, Elizabeth Storder, Rain Kindlin, Kelsey, Steven and Franklin Mason, and his three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be private with a memorial service by invitation.
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12-10-2005, 03:43 PM
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That is too sad. Richard was a true original.
RIP Mr. Pryor
The shape I\'m in you could donate my body to science fiction! - Rodney Dangerfield, \"Back to School\"
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12-10-2005, 03:49 PM
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Not sure which area of the HTF this belongs to, so I'll try here.
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I'm moving it to Movies instead of AHL, because the bulk of Pryor's surviving work was in that medium. Even his amazing stand-up work survives in various concert films.
M.
"Most people never have to face the fact that, at the right time and the right place, they're capable of anything." -- Chinatown
"What kind of movies would there be if everyone in them had to do what we thought they should do?" -- Roger Ebert
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12-10-2005, 03:55 PM
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Thomas
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Rest in peace, Mr. Pryor.
The man I loved - the man who vanished - he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.
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12-10-2005, 04:24 PM
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Yeah, an Academy award nominee deserves to be here in movies. God, this man was funny. All those laughs from so much tragedy. I'd call Pryor the first African American comedian to bring racial topics into comedy. He was, indeed by his own admission, raw and real but brilliantly capable of making the most sensitive topics hilarious. I don't know anyone who thought he'd survive his crack accident when he suffered third degree burns over much of his upper body, much less perform again, but he came back and took the horror of his experience and turned it into one of his funniest routines without relying on pity to get applause.
Thanks Richard!
For beauty is only a step removed from a burning terror we barely sustain, and we worship it for the graceful sublimity with which it disdains to consume us. - Rainer Maria Rilke
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12-10-2005, 04:25 PM
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Richard Pryor is on a pretty short list that I keep in my head. It includes Bill Hicks,
George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Lenny Bruce and on his better days, Chris Rock.
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12-10-2005, 05:08 PM
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Oh no. Sad news indeed. Pryor was a comedy genius, a legend.
RIP Richard. 
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12-10-2005, 05:18 PM
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I heard about this on the radio while walking home and it just seemed to knock the wind out of me. Very few incite this sort of reaction from me, but Richard Pryor was so damn brilliant... RIP.
And you believe, at heart, everyone's a killer...
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12-10-2005, 05:20 PM
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John Williamson
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This is devistating news, he was one of the great one's indeed, i'm very saddened by this.
RIP Richard Pryor.
"There was that time I wanted to be an astronaut.
I wanted to be the first one to kill somebody on the moon."
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