According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lee Daniels has dropped out of directing The Weinstein Company’s long-in-the-works Richard Pryor biopic. Daniels is an executive producer on Empire and is ...

Paul Mooney, the comedian, actor and writer for Richard Pryor, died on Wednesday morning, his representative Cassandra Williams confirmed to Variety. He was 79. He died at his home in Oakland, Calif., ...

The law's reach never stretched this far.

The audience was left staring at an empty stage. He didn't tone things down after he became famous. In his 1977 NBC television series "The Richard Pryor Show," he threatened to cancel his contract ...