Among the extras on the Criterion release is a full episode of “The Dick Cavett Show” from 1985 ... “Becoming Richard Pryor,” Scott Saul explains how, despite the city being used in ...

As a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker, Hilton Als's essays and profiles of figures like Toni Morrison, Joan Didion, and Richard Pryor have ... embrace silence. The show asked a powerful ...