Movie mixes pain
and pleasure
By GUHA SHANKAR
Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip is a unique ex
perience which mixes pain and pleasure in equal doses.
Facial muscles take a beating from laughing to the point of
exhaustion. Then Pryor abruptly tosses in a sobering
thought in the middle of howlingly funny anecdotes forc
ing the audience to confront the reality behind the joke.
Few people have the courage to face their shortcomings,
and fewer still have the- heart to analyze their own
mistakes for the benefit of strangers. In this respect, the
one-man concert film from one of the most original and
startling performers of our time gives as honest and candid
an effort as the viewer is likely to see.
Sunset Strip is nothing less than a public confession, laced
with explicit language and raw, street dialogue, which are
Pryor's trademarks.
Even though Sunset Strip is a concert film, it contains
enough drama and tension to rival the best inventions of
Hollywood.
Pryor is an actor of some skill. He uses his body, his
voice and facial expressions to animate objects and imitate
animals. A story about a trip to Africa includes the follow
ing observations about animals in the wild. A lion ad
dresses a tourist and says: "Yeah, get your butt our of that
car, and bring that camera with ya. I'm gonna eat all that
s---."
And according to Pryor, buzzards have discovered an
alternative to flying, "They dove up in a truck talkin' about
'What it is?' "
But the best sequence concerns his addiction to cocaine
and his long, agonizing recovery from the near-fatal burn
ing. It is Pryor at his most introspective and at his best. It
closely parallels the monologue from his previous concert
film in which he re-enacted his heart-attack, another in
stance in which he came close to dying. To admit that he
was a cocaine junkie required much courage, but Pryor is
up to the task. His confession reveals a new-found maturity
and confidence born of near tragedy. It's the same old
Pryor but better.
Diving
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than academic prestige to draw divers
here. Ground breaking for the new Stu
dent Activities Center, which is to in
clude a pool, is scheduled for this
spring. The structure will take 26
months to complete if all goes well.
In the new pool, the divers will not
have to compete with swimming
.classes or the intramuraf department,
and the pool will be a minimum of 17
feet deep. Unfortunately, Perfater, a
(freshman, will be the only current
Carolina diver to enjoy the benefits of
this new facility.
"Give us a few years and we should
be making it to nationals," Dalrymple
said. "We'll have no excuse not to."S
Tracy Young is a staff writer for The
: Daily Tar Heel.
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