gall and gumption

Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Richard Pryor

You know how from time to time you find yourself wondering why the wonderful people die young while the vicious and stupid just won't go away? I know I ask myself that.

Isn't it great, then, that Richard Pryor is still so very much among the living?

He can't talk. He can't walk. He has to listen to people talk about him in the past tense. It looks like he can handle it, though.

Jason Byrne: You talk about Muhammad Ali in your latest DVD and how frightening it was to be in the ring with him. But do you reckon you could beat him now that the two of you shake like maracas?
RP: That's your fuckin' question?