Nobody wants waffles anymore Read the full article on AICN Eddie Murphy has inked a deal with streaming powerhouse Netflix to star as the legendary Rudy Ray Moore in a biopic titled, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME. The film will be helmed by Craig Brewer (HUSTLE & FLOW) with a script by the writing team behind ED WOOD and THE PEOPLE VS LARRY FLINT! Moore began his career as spoken word artist/comedian before transitioning his earnings from that career in the self-financed blacksploitation classic DOLEMITE.
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- Motion model for Shrek's Donkey character dies at 30
The miniature donkey that was the motion model for Eddie Murphy's character Donkey in the Shrek franchise has died.
01/6/2025 - 6:10 am | View Link - Donkey who inspired Eddie Murphy’s ‘Shrek’ character dies at 30
Pericles, affectionately known as Perry, was a Jerusalem miniature donkey from New York City who achieved fame after helping animators perfect Shrek’s sidekick Donkey in the Oscar-winning ...
01/5/2025 - 4:34 pm | View Link - Donkey who served as a model for Eddie Murphy's Shrek character dies
Perry, the donkey who served as a live-action model for the character Eddie Murphy voices in the 'Shrek' franchise, has died at 30 after a protracted battle with laminitis, a hoof disease.
01/5/2025 - 11:54 am | View Link - Fans Mourn Death Of Real-Life Donkey That Inspired Eddie Murphy's 'Shrek' Character
Perry, a miniature donkey who lived in Palo Alto, California, was euthanized Thursday after suffering from a painful and debilitating hoof disease.
01/5/2025 - 9:22 am | View Link - Donkey, Who Served as the Model for Eddie Murphy’s “Shrek” Character, Dies at 30: 'He Was So Much More Than the“ Shrek” Donkey'
"I can attest that many of Donkey’s classic head tilts, eye rolls and bouncy trots were straight from Perry," the animal's handler, Jenny Kiratli, tells PEOPLE ...
01/5/2025 - 5:30 am | View Link - More
- Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy. Actor: The Nutty Professor. Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor.
01/11/2025 - 7:33 am | View Website - Eddie Murphy Is Ready to Look Back
“Eddie Murphy: Raw,” released in 1987 when he was only 26, is the highest-grossing standup-comedy film ever — still. The scale of his success, and the fact he...
01/11/2025 - 7:19 am | View Website - Eddie Murphy
Murphy shot to fame on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984 and broke out as a movie star in the 1980s films 48 Hrs., Trading Places, and Beverly Hills Cop.
01/11/2025 - 2:04 am | View Website - Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy. Actor: The Nutty Professor. Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor.
01/10/2025 - 7:37 pm | View Website - What is Eddie Murphy doing now
Eddie Murphy’s name used to be synonymous with comedy, yet he became conspicuously absent from the silver screen. This enigmatic hiatus lasted six years. See why.
01/10/2025 - 7:30 pm | View Website - More
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