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This foreign born former A- list singer turned mainly reality judge/coke abuser seems to be revising her past. She thinks an old relationship was a fairy tale gone wrong. She threatened to kill her permanent A list ex multiple times and when she got pregnant had said before she feared for her own life.
Mel B
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DeleteOn the topic of Eddie, isn't it interesting what touchstone "Coming to America" has become? Every teenager I know has seen it multiple times and can often quote lines from it.
ReplyDeleteEddie's other movies don't seem to have made it to the new millennium as well. It's been a long time since I've heard anyone mention "Beverly Hills Cop", or even "The Nutty Professor".
"Coming to America" wasn't a hit when it came out in 1988, but it seems to be slowly becoming a classic.
Coming to America was Awesome!!
ReplyDeleteHow is he the love of her life and denied paternity of their kid. Smh. I love Coming to America and probably have seen it over 20 times. It’s a classic for me. Also love Trading Places.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Eddie Murphy movie was Doctor Doolittle but I was also a big Wild Thornberries fan so I don't think it had much to do with Murphy lmfao
ReplyDeleteNot sure where you get that "Coming To America" wasn't a hit - it grossed over $128 Million in the US, another $125 Million worldwide, and was the #3 grossing movie of 1988 (and Paramount's #1 movie of the year).
ReplyDelete@MD exactly .I think the drugs has her delusional, lol. He barely acknowledged Mel B!
ReplyDeleteThe soundtrack to Beverly hills cop is iconic 80's music, Axel F alone defines the decade.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, Moose - I don't know where I got the idea that it wasn't a hit, either. I guess it wasn't as big as the "Beverly Hills Cop" movies, so it was seen as a disappointment. Eddie Murphy was HUGE at the time.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, @MDAnderson - "Trading Places" has also aged very well. Frozen concentrated orange juice futures! I can still happily recall a lot of scenes from that movie. I may watch it tonight.
@Nutty_Flavor
ReplyDeleteMaybe you're confusing Coming To America with The Golden Child, which was still good, but maybe not as big of a hit.
Could be! Wasn't The Golden Child" was Eddie's first big flop?
ReplyDeleteMaybe I was thinking that "Coming to America" wasn't a critical hit. It still has only a 47% review on Metacritic, which proves that critics are often idiots.
The LA Times, Sheila Benson, 1988: "James Earl Jones proves that he is probably the only actor in America who can wear the skin of a full-grown lion-jewels in its eyes, its tail in its mouth-over street clothes and not look like a damn fool. But there's not a thing he can do with this flaccid, foolish film."
Toronto Globe and Mail, 1988
"In past celluloid lives Eddie Murphy has been responsible for a handful of the most popular movies ever made, which explains why he has been able to bring Coming to America to your neighborhood theatre with its misogyny, technical ineptitude and witlessness intact."
Time Magazine, 1988
"Coming to America seems to be more career move than movie. After the raucousness of Beverly Hills Cop II and the raunchiness of Eddie Murphy Raw, the star apparently wants to assert his claim on the currently vacant title of America's Sweetheart. His aspirations must be bigger and badder than that. We want -- may actually need -- something more from this gifted man."
But those are the 1988 reviews on Metacritic. The more recent reviews, ones from contemporary viewers, are much more positive.
ReplyDeleteI loved "Coming To America" from the first time I saw it. I thought it gave an air of decency to Murphy, whose characters up to that point had mostly been a bit on the crude side. John Amos's Cleo McDowell was fantastic as well ("They've got the Big Mac, I've got the Big Mick"). And i always had a thing for Madge Sinclair.
ReplyDeleteI did not realize until I just checked IMDB that Shari Headley, the girl who played Akeem's love interest/Amos' daughter is the same woman who played the DA (that was shot and killed by Katherine) on Tyler Perry's cheesefest "The Haves and the Have Nots".
Id rather watch any 1980s comedy over any of the dreck the studios are putting out now. Id also go farther back in time and watch me some blaxploitation films too like Shaft, Dolomite and any Pam Grier film.
ReplyDeleteHow has no one mentioned 48 Hours yet?
ReplyDeleteThats was a fantastic film. Eddie exploded out of that movie. I think it might be my favourite movie of the 80s.
I know they used to endlessly play Coming To America on all the basic cable channels, censored/edited down to family friendly fare.
ReplyDelete@sandybrook - Pam Grier is the phatnastyshit! Ever read her autobiography? It is outstanding.
ReplyDeleteI also am a huge fan of Tamara Dobson's "Cleopatra Jones". And who doesn't love "Blacula"?
John Landis was at the top of his game for Coming to America,recovering from the Twilight Zone deaths. After him and Eddie clashed on Beverly Hills Cop 3, did Eddie blackball him?
ReplyDeleteMy reaction to Mel's recent comments about Eddie were that they must be sarcasm. She said that he is really classy. Eddie is hugely talented, but classy is a big stretch. Picking up trannies on Sunset Boulevard is not exactly highbrow, imho.
ReplyDeleteTrading Places is my all time favorite though
ReplyDeleteComing to America totally ruined Black Panther for me. I kept hearing Eddie Murphy's african accent!
ReplyDeleteEddie should make a Black Panther parody, along the lines of Austin Powers mocking James Bond movies.
No I never read Pams bio, maybe Ill try to find it. She was a really interesting person.
ReplyDeleteI love Trading Places, with its all-star cast.
ReplyDeleteI must confess to loving Holy Man. Mel B is really an atrocious individual. Yesterday she accused Geri H of lying about her age and having terrible breath.
ReplyDeleteI am sure this tour will derail sooner than later!
I thought Eddie was into dudes that dress up as chicks? Surely Mel would know about that if he was the 'love of her life?'
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