firstshowing.net - 7/1/2008
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It looks like the life support is running out on Eddie Murphy's movie career. Presumably, the near 50-year-old and recent bachelor is set to please audiences nationwide - something he hasn't done in years - by going back to his comedy nightclub roots and staying out of the theater. Murphy recently told Extra , "I have close to fifty movies and it's like, why am I in the movies? I've done ...
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Eddie Murphy Retiring? Dismisses Beverly Hills Cop 4
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... comedy, Meet Dave (above), opens and possibly flops on July 11th, and he’s currently filming A Thousand Words with Brian Robbins, who directed Meet Dave and Norbit and, uh, Good Burger and The Show concert film with Biggie Smalls. Yeah, it’s probably hopeless, unless there’s a Rosetta Stone for the F-word. Oh yeah, it’s called Eddie Murphy Raw. Hopeless.
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... remember the last time we actually liked an Eddie Murphy movie (Bowfinger maybe?), but wouldn't it sort of be a bummer if he really did quit making them? Wouldn't it be better if he just stopped wearing fat suits and farting? Now that he apparently realizes he's been acting in stinkers for the past two decades, couldn't he just throw his weight behind a decent script for once? Of course he could — he's Gumby, dammit!
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