{"id":35971,"date":"2021-10-10T19:12:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=35971"},"modified":"2021-10-10T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:49:31","slug":"the-ultimate-richard-pryor-collection-uncensored-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/10\/the-ultimate-richard-pryor-collection-uncensored-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Richard Pryor Collection: Uncensored [DVD]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping for the Richard Pryor fans on your gift list, this 13-disc DVD collection should certainly bring plenty of pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, most of the material has been available before, including all four of Pryor&#8217;s concert films plus his forays into television and his feature &#8220;Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, there is some interesting new material, most notably an interview with Penelope Spheeris on the making of the now-lost 1968 &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8217;s Fairy Tales&#8221; plus never-before-seen outtakes and alternate takes from that bizarre production. The comic&#8217;s widow Jennifer Lee Pryor also gives an original interview on her tumultuous relationship with the iconic performer and shares rare footage of his final comedy performance while he was battling a valiant fight against multiple sclerosis. There are are also two different documentaries on Pryor&#8217;s groundbreaking career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe the ability to think is blessed,&#8221; Pryor once observed. &#8220;If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping for the Richard Pryor fans on your gift list, this 13-disc DVD collection should certainly bring plenty of pleasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":35972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[219,308,2600],"class_list":["post-35971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-comedy","tag-dvd","tag-richard-pryor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35981,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35971\/revisions\/35981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}