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12-11-05, 01:34
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Scottwax is online now Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 25,234 | RIP Richard Pryor
1940-2005. 
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12-11-05, 03:32
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Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Layton, UT Posts: 4,266 | Heard about it this morning, the guy had me in tears many a time, RIP.
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12-11-05, 05:46
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Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 7,438 | His concert recollection of his freebasing days, when his pipe would talk to him, was a really humanizing view of that kind of addiction. So many great movie, concert, SNL, etc. memories.
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12-11-05, 06:08
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Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Southern Cali Posts: 6,664 | He opened so many doors for so many people. When a comedian can make him/herself the center of the joke the material almost HAS to be funny.
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12-11-05, 06:34
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Scottwax is online now Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Arlington, TX Posts: 25,234 | My favorite work of his was Blazing Saddles, which he co-wrote. That has to be in the top 3 of funny movies of all time. 
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12-12-05, 03:38
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Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 7,438 | Hmm...I never realized he had any writing credit in Blazing Saddles. Apparently, he was supposed to have the Cleavon Little role, but he was so controversial at the time that they couldn't get the movie financed...and he was supposed to have the Gregory Hines role in "History of the World, Part 1", but that's when he set himself on fire and couldn't do it.
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12-12-05, 06:54
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Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Gilbert, AZ Posts: 5,793 | I am a huge fan of his work and he was looked to as an inspiration for some of the modern comedians of today. We will miss King Richard.
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12-12-05, 02:17
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Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Philadelphia, P.A. Posts: 2,231 | I'm also a huge fan. He will be missed.
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