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Previous inductees include Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Spike Lee, Ray Charles and Sidney Poitier. Credit: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP In this Jan. 12, 2020, file photo, Eddie Murphy accepts the lifetime achievement award at the 25th annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File) Author: JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer Published: 11:40 AM EST March 11, 2021 Updated: 11:40 AM EST March 11, 2021 LOS ANGELES — Eddie Murphy will be inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame this month. T...

Coming 2 America. hide caption Eddie Murphy returns as Prince Akeem in Coming 2 America. Quantrell D. Colbert/Amazon Studios "Okay ... great gowns – beautiful gowns." Those were the words thrown out by the one and only Aretha Franklin several years ago, when pressed by a journalist to say the first thing that came to mind at the mention of Taylor Swift's name. Think "If you can't say anything nice ..." pragmatically applied to a real-world situation. A shade that will live in infamy and memes. Craig Brewer's Coming 2 America, the sequel to the enduring Eddie Murphy hit Comi...

A lot has happened in the 33 years since Coming to America hit theaters in 1988, just a few weeks before NWA’s single “Straight Outta Compton” became a phenomenon. Eddie Murphy is no longer the box office star that he was, and the America of today has a different kind of racial awareness than America in 1988. Murphy was then one of the biggest movie stars in America, with a string of hits under his belt, including the Trading Places and the Delirious and Raw. And while the mostly white critical establishment seemed baffled by Coming to America, a slapstick film about an African p...

The Stay Home and Read a Book Ball The Library Foundation of Los Angeles holds the 33rd edition of its "nonevent" that asks guests to stay home, read a book and have a ball any way they see fit. Join chair Claudia Rankine and honorary chairs Misty Copeland, Valeria Luiselli, Michelle Tea and Charles Yu in raising funds for the LAPL's free virtual programming, which has expanded during the pandemic. Eddie Murphy stars as King Akeem in 'Coming 2 America,' the long-awaited sequel to his 1988 comedy, 'Coming to America.' (Quantrell D. Colbert/Amazon Studios) Streaming Pick Coming 2 America All h...

Eddie Murphy is back, and back up to speed, in ‘Coming 2 America’ By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated March 4, 2021, 3:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Released in 1988, “Coming to America” is probably the most congenial comedy in Eddie Murphy’s filmography. The story of a royal prince from the fictional African country of Zamunda who looks for a queen in — where else? — Queens, N.Y., the movie is as broad as a barn and twice as sweet-natured. You’d have every expectation that a sequel arriving 33 years late to the party would be a bust. It’s a pleasure to rep...