By Carly Thomas Associate Editor “They were talking about doing Malcolm X,” Murphy recalled. “Norman Jewison was putting it together. They were gonna use The Autobiography of Malcolm X by ...

Washington [US], April 2 (ANI): Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy opened up about some advice Sidney Poitier once gave him that left him surprised. In Apple TV 's new documentary, 'Number One on the ...

Taking advice from the late Sidney Potier, Eddie Murphy was told to avoid starring in a 1992 Spike Lee classic that starred ...

"They were talking about doing Malcolm X," the Coming to America star explained. "Norman Jewison was putting it together. They were gonna use The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley.

The film was first directed by Norman Jewison, the director of Poitier's In the Heat of the Night, who cast Denzel Washington in the starring role before Spike Lee took over as director.

“They were talking about doing Malcolm X [and] Norman Jewison (who directed Fiddler on the Roof and Moonstruck) was putting it together,” he recalled. “They were gonna use The ...

he jokes. Figures spanning decades and a mix of backgrounds come to mind when he thinks about Black dandies: Louis Armstrong, Frank Lucas, his father, Malcolm X, the members of Dipset. Even his ...

"It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and they were gonna use The Autobiography of Malcolm X by [Roots author] Alex Haley. And they ...

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