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Richard Pryor’s Essential Albums Released as Box Set. The LPs, reissued by Rhino, span 1974 to 1983 and include some of the late comic's most iconic routines.
She recorded the soundtrack to the 1981 Richard Pryor film “Bustin’ Loose.” During a tour of South Africa in 1999, Flack performed “Killing Me Softly” for President Nelson Mandela at his ...
With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.
Bergen County Sheriff’s Office Richard Cottingham, a.k.a. the Times Square Killer, terrorized victims in New York and New Jersey from 1967 until his arrest in 1980. Known as the “Times Square Ripper” ...
Shoulder to Shoulder, the TV classic about the suffragettes, is 50 years old – we speak to Dame Siân Phillips, Waris Hussein and Moira Armstrong ...
19th May 1979: American comedian and actor Richard Pryor and Jennifer Lee, wearing cowboy hats and bolo ties, smile while at the annual SHARE party, held at the Hollywood Palladium, Hollywood ...
Netflix’s ‘Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer’ and A&E’s ‘The Torso Killer Confessions’ are two documentary series’ that explore the horrific crimes committed by serial killer Richard Cottingham.
The legendary stand-up’s five-minute bit is a master class in vulnerability, physicality, and reckoning with death. Analyzing Richard Pryor’s ‘Heart Attacks’ from his 1979 special ‘Live ...
Richard Cottingham, 75, confessed to the brutal murders of five women on Monday, but previously struck a plea deal to only be punished for one. Cottingham, also known as the 'Torso Killer' says he ...
The Richard Pryor Show wound up ranking 86th (out of 104 shows) in the 1977-78 network TV season, an unsurprising fate considering both the content and NBC’s unwillingness to go to bat for Pryor ...