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UPI Almanac for Wednesday, April 28, 2021 On April 28, 2001, California businessman Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space. He reportedly paid Russia's space agency $20 million to give him a ride to the International Space Station. By United Press International Supported by a Russian Space Agency officer, American multimillionaire Dennis Tito (R) walks during a ceremony in Star City, outside Moscow, on May 6, 2001. On April 28, 2001, Tito became the first tourist in space. File Photo by Michael Levkin/UPI | License Photo Members of the Iraqi Transitional National Assembly raise their ...

CinemaBlend Within days of its exclusive premiere on Amazon Prime Video, Coming 2 America became the most popular movie on the streaming platform that weekend. It is likely that many of the viewers who checked out the comedy sequel also made time to catch up on the original 1988 film, Saturday Night Live veteran actually first brought his talent for playing multiple characters to the big screen in the original royal rom-com, which he does once again in the follow-up. Of course, part of the fun of Coming 2 America is also seeing the return of supporting players like Arsenio Hall as Semmi, S...

CinemaBlend Like any long-awaited follow-up to a beloved comedy, Coming 2 America boasts a fair number of appearances by some of the original film’s funniest fan-favorite characters, many of them played, once again, by Eddie Murphy. However, more glaringly recognizable is the absence of actors such as Samuel L. Jackson and several others from 1988’s Director Craig Brewer’s Amazon Prime original sequel introduces a slew of new characters, such as the long lost son of Eddie Murphy's King Akeem Joffer (played by Jermaine Fowler), his boisterous mother (Leslie Jones) and uncle (T...

I ’m definitely not in the crowd that feels that Eddie Murphy has diminished a classic by making a cash-grab sequel with Coming 2 America. However, a big part of my reason for feeling that way is that I think that the original Coming to America is a self-indulgent and stupid vanity piece that had a few mildly memorable moments, but it was never a good film. And it has aged about as well an open can of spam. In the imaginatively titled Coming 2 America, Prince Akeem of Zamunda (Murphy) is summoned before his dying father ( James Earl Jones) to discuss the issue of the passing of the crown...

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the Laker Girl-turned-pop star listed her Coming to America scene as one of the top moments of her choreography career. “This was one of my moments of having to really prove myself, because I was still pretty new in my career as a choreographer,” Abdul said. “John Landis, the director, wanted the person that choreographed Janet Jackson. I was still a Laker Girl. I went in and he looked at me and said, 'What are you, a teenager?' And I said, 'Yes, I am!' He basically was telling me, 'What do you know about African dancing?' And this is my whole thing...