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Eddie Murphy to play Richard Pryor’s Father

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So Eddie Murphy is going to play Richard Pryor’s father in Lee Daniel’s movie about Richard Pryor – if this movie isn’t Rated R and perhaps NC17 it’s a sacrilege to everything Richard Pryor was about. Is Oprah really powerful enough somehow to make a PG13 movie about him? It’s impossible, right? Just the N word alone gets it an R and that has to be said about 100 times.