See No Evil, Hear No Evil
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Cast & Crew
Arthur Hiller
Gene Wilder
Keith Langsdale
George Bartenieff
Gerald A Detitta
Doug Yasuda
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A man is murdered outside a newsstand owned by a blind man and a deaf man who are the only witnesses.
Cast
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Gene Wilder
Keith Langsdale
George Bartenieff
Gerald A Detitta
Doug Yasuda
Hardy Rawls
James Pyduck
Harry Madsen
Alice Spivak
Zach Grenier
Lauren Tom
Tonya Pinkins
Michael John Mcgann
Manuel Santiago
Jamie Deroy
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Kevin Spacey
Joe Viviani
Bernie Mcinerney
Kirsten Childs
Rico Elias
John Ring
Thom Curley
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Richard Pryor
Louis Giambalvo
Lisby Larson
Phil Goodbody
Bill Luhrs
Alexandra Neil
Alan Pottinger
Shiek Mahmud-bey
Mark Smaltz
George Flower
John Capodice
Pirie Macdonald
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Anthony Zerbe
Tom Kubiak
Alan North
Edward James Hyland
Mary Kay Adams
Audrie Neenan
George Harris
Joan Severance
Joel Swetow
Cynthia Lopez
Jane Connell
Crew
G. A. Aguilar
Danny Aiello Iii
Bill Anagnos
J H Arrufat
Earl Barret
Earl Barret
Earl Barret
Earl Barret
Ken Bates
Gary Baxley
Dana Bertolette
James T Best
Mary Bialey
Julie A. Bloom
Gary Blufer
Raul Bonilla
Michael Boonstra
Bob Bradshaw
Conrad F Brink
Bob Brown
Jack Brown
Paul Bucossi
Pete Bucossi
Mark Burchard
Joseph M Caracciolo
Arlene B Coffey
Marius Constant
Stewart Copeland
Annie M Demille
George Detitta Jr.
Michael Dittrick
James E Dolan
James P. Dolan
Norman Douglass
Gordon Ecker
Gregg Elam
John Michael Fanaris
Roy Farfel
Sylvia Fay
Glory Fioramonti
Wayne Fitzgerald
John R Ford
Debra Mendel Freedman
Viola Frey
Dean Garvin
Steven Gerrior
K. Scott Gertsen
Tom Gilligan
Michael Ginsburg
Louis Goldman
Robert Griffon
Al Griswold
Marguerite Guardino
Robert Gundlach
Wendi Haas
Michael Haley
Dick Hancock
Barbara Harris
Burtt Harris
Burtt Harris
Liza J Harris
Megan Harris
Kristie Hart
John J Healey
Jery Hewitt
Erica Hiller
Mike Hoskinson
James J Isaacs
Jennie Johnson
Leslie Jones
Robert C. Jones
Rashon Kahn
Ed Kelly
Victor J Kemper
Victor J Kemper
John D Kennedy
Patti L Kleinman
Andrew Kurtzman
John Leveque
Tony Lloyd
Wilson Lyle
Dennis Maitland
Mark Mcgann
David Mcmurray
Roberta Mineo
Ruth Morley
Edward Mourino
Richard P Murray
Phil Neilson
Edward O'donnell
Paul Staveley O'duffy
Greg Orloff
Conrad Palmisano
Lillian Pan
Gary M Parker
Steve Pederson
Bernadette Penotti
Robert Perrone
W Wister Pilling
Paul Porelli
Richard Portman
Tom Priestley
Tom Priestley
Ed Quinn
Thomas Reilly
Phd Ronald S Reiter
Sandy Richman
Ruben R Rodriguez
John Roesch
Todd Rosken
Mike Russo
Joseph Sabella
Rick Seaman
Jeff Seitz
James T Singelis
Ellen J Smith
Mark Smith
Lynn Stalmaster
Bruce Stambler
Annie Stewart
Michael L Stone
Becky Sullivan
Arne Sultan
Arne Sultan
Arne Sultan
Arne Sultan
Shawn Sykora
Gary Tacon
Carolyn Tapp
Roy Thomas
William Traynor
Glen Trotiner
Lori M Van Der Veer
Toy Van Lierop
Suzanne Vaucher
Eliot Wald
Robert P Walzer
Don Warner
David Was
Don Was
Deborah Watkins
Karen Webb
James Welch
Monty Westmore
Brenda White
Gene Wilder
Tim Williams
Jody Worth
Marvin Worth
Marvin Worth
Marvin Worth
Harry Wowchuk
Tom Wright
Elizabeth Yanoska
Richard E Yawn
Aaron Zigman
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Articles
Richard Pryor (1940-2005)
He was born Richard Thomas Pryor III on December 1, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois. By all accounts, his childhood was a difficult one. His mother was a prostitute and his grandmother ran a brothel. His father was rarely around and when he was, he would physically abuse him. From a young age, Pryor knew that humor was his weapon of choice to cut through all the swath he came across and would confront in his life.
After high school, he enlisted in the Army for a two-year stint (1958-60). When he was discharged (honorably!) he concentrated on stand-up comedy and worked in a series of nightclubs before relocating to New York City in 1963. In 1964, he made his television debut when he was given a slot on the variety program On Broadway Tonight. His routine, though hardly the groundbreaking material we would witness in later years, was very well received, and in the late '60s Pryor found more television work: Toast of the Town, The Wild Wild West, The Mod Squad ; and was cast in a two movies: The Busy Body (1967) with Sid Caesar; and Wild in the Streets (1968) a cartoonish political fantasy about the internment of all American citizens over 30.
Pryor's career really didn't ignite until the '70s. His stand up act became raunchier and more politically motivated as he touched on issued of race, failed relationships, drug addiction, and street crimes. His movie roles became far more captivating in the process: the piano man in Lady Sings the Blues (1972); as a wise-talking hustler in a pair of slick urban thrillers: The Mack (1973) and Uptown Saturday Night (1974); the gregarious Daddy Rich in Car Wash; his first pairing with Gene Wilder as Grover, the car thief who helps stops a runaway train in his first real box office smash Silver Streak (both 1976); and for many critics, his finest dramatic performance as a factory worker on the edge of depression in Paul Schrader's excellent working class drama Blue Collar (1978).
On a personal level, his drug dependency problem worsened, and on June 9, 1980, near tragedy struck when he caught fire while free-basing cocaine. Pryor later admitted that the incident, was, in fact, a suicide attempt, and that his management company created the lie for the press in hopes of protecting him. Fortunately, Pryor had three films in the can that all achieved some level of financial success soon after his setback: another pairing with Gene Wilder in the prison comedy Stir Crazy (1980); a blisteringly funny cameo as God who flips off Andy Kaufman in the warped religious satire In God We Tru$t (1980); an a ex-con helping a social worker (Cicely Tyson) with her foster charges in Bustin' Loose (1981). He capped his recovery with Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), a first-rate documentation of the comic's genius performed in front of a raucous live audience.
In 1983, Pryor signed a $40 million, five-year contract with Columbia Pictures. For many fans and critics, this was the beginning of his downslide. His next few films: The Toy, Superman III (both 1983), and Brewster's Millions (1985) were just tiresome, mediocre comedies. Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling (1986), was his only attempt at producing, directing, and acting, and the film, which was an ambitious autobiographical account of a his life and career, was a box-office disappointment. He spent the remainder of the '80s in middling fare: Condition Critical (1987), Moving; a third pairing with Gene Wilder in See No Evil, Hear No Evil; and his only teaming with Eddie Murphy in Harlem Nights (1989).
In 1986, Pryor was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the nervous system that curtailed both his personal appearances and his gift for physical comedy in his latter films. By the '90s, little was seen of Pryor, but in 1995, he made a courageous comeback on television when he guest starred on Chicago Hope as an embittered multiple sclerosis patient. His performance earned him an Emmy nomination and he was cast in a few more films: Mad Dog Time (1996), Lost Highway (1997), but his physical ailments prohibited him from performing on a regular basis. In 1998, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington gave Pryor the first Mark Twain Prize for humor. It was fitting tribute for a man who had given so much honesty and innovation in the field of comedy. Pryor is survived by his wife, Jennifer Lee; his sons Richard and Steven; and daughters Elizabeth, Rain and Renee.
by Michael T. Toole
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Richard Pryor (1940-2005)
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Released in United States Spring May 12, 1989
Released in United States on Video December 7, 1989
Re-released in United States on Video June 2, 1993
Released in United States August 1989
Shown at Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (market) August 19-25, 1989.
Originally released by RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (video-USA)
Began shooting Fall 1988.
Released in United States Spring May 12, 1989
Released in United States on Video December 7, 1989
Re-released in United States on Video June 2, 1993
Released in United States August 1989 (Shown at Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund (market) August 19-25, 1989.)