Nov. 21 (UPI) --Comedy legend Eddie Murphy is set to receive the 51st American Film Institute Award. "Eddie Murphy is an American icon," Kathleen Kennedy, chair of the AFI Board of Trustees, said in a ...
Eddie Murphy attends the premiere of Netflix's biographical documentary "Being Eddie" at the Tudum Theater Los Angeles on November 12. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI Nov. 21 (UPI) --Comedy legend Eddie ...
The film captures his electrifying early years in vivid detail, though like Murphy himself it grows less satisfying as he loses his edge. In “Being Eddie,” the engaging if also relentlessly upbeat and ...
About a decade into Murphy’s post-“SNL” blockbuster movie career, he experienced a box office flop with the Wes Craven-directed horror movie “Vampire in Brooklyn.” Spade joked about the movie’s poor ...
Eddie Murphy, as he has always been the first to acknowledge, is the rare comedian who set out to model himself on rock ‘n’ roll superstardom. He wanted to be Richard Pryor, but he also wanted to be ...
Eddie Murphy will be honored with a lifetime award from the American Film Institute. Murphy, 64, will receive the 51st AFI Life Achievement Award at a gala Hollywood dinner on April 18, the film ...
Eddie Murphy skips award shows for the same reason he avoids funerals. His tendency to absorb the vibes of a space leaves him susceptible to others’ emotions. He's always been able to “read a room,” ...
Eddie Murphy was still a teenager when he leapt from the stand-up comedy stages of New York City to star on Saturday Night Live, and by the age of 21, was starring alongside Nick Nolte in 48 Hrs. By ...
From an entertainment standpoint, there’s a lot we know about Eddie Murphy. He’s an actor with incredible range, and his comedy is truly one of a kind. From The Nutty Professor to Dr. Dolittle to his ...
Eddie Murphy opens up in his Netflix documentary “Being Eddie” about his decision to stay away from “Saturday Night Live” for decades. It all stemmed from a joke David Spade made on “SNL” in 1995 ...
Eddie Murphy opens up just enough to make things interesting in this fully authorized look at his life. The most interesting thing about the sanitized, fully authorized celebrity biodocs that have ...