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A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago: Eddie Murphy Flops Twice but Wins With Studios - NYTimes.com
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Vulture: Why Does Hollywood Continue To Hire Eddie Murphy, Anyway?
Gawker: Eddie, Woody, & Michael: Do We Even Care About Geniuses Anymore? [Genius, Schmenius]
Eddie Murphy Flops Twice but Wins With Studios - NYTimes.com
A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago —
PORK BELLIES, WHICH IS USED TO MAKE BACON, WHICH YOU MIGHT FIND IN A BACON, LETTUCE AND TOMATO SANDWICH: The NYT explores the question of why movie studios keep paying Eddie Murphy $20M plus a share of the gross when so many of his films bomb: ...
Link Farm Boogaloo
Coosa Creek Cinema —
... Despite two flops in a row, and not having made a funny movie since 48 Hours, studios keep hiring Eddie Murphy. Brooks Barnes explains why in The Times. ...
Why Does Hollywood Continue To Hire Eddie Murphy, Anyway?
Vulture —
... as the sassy Donkey.
While we here at Vulture don't have a ton of experience casting movies, we will don our agent hat for a second and give Eddie Murphy a free piece of career advice that's guaranteed to help him win back the hearts of Americans everywhere: Find a script that allows you to play a donkey in a fat suit and watch the laughs — not to mention the money — start rolling in! A reboot of Au hasard Balthazar, perhaps?
Despite Flops, Studios Want Eddie Murphy [NYT]
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Eddie, Woody, & Michael: Do We Even Care About Geniuses Anymore? [Genius, Schmenius]
Gawker —
... For Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy, and Michael Jackson this was never an issue. No one ever calls into question their obvious excess of talent. But yet, reading the news and ...
Another Hack Attack On Eddie Murphy
The Hot Blog —
... Brooks Barnes' NYT piece commits the ultimate sin for a journalist. It seems to purposefully avoid the facts and instead throws around snarky opinion without backup, like "That harsh sentence...is as good an example as any of the prevailing sentiment about Mr. Murphy these days." Prevailing sentiment? Did they do a survey or did he just read a bunch of blogs? ...
