a fine memorial from Digby.
I'm not quite old enough to have appreciated Pryor's revolutionary qualities.
My Richard Pryor was Gene Wilder's touchy but adorable and essentially harmless sidekick in Silver Streak. I have dim memories of what made him great, but that's it- he was the guy the hip grownups had on LPs they wouldn't let me listen to, the guy the television execs were scared of (even as they longed to steal some of his credibility and popularity for themselves).
One of a kind, and so influential you take him for granted until you stop and think about it.
RIP.
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