Filmmaker Recalls How Racism Ruined Richard Pryor Movie

A veteran filmmaker recounts how Hollywood racism led to the cutting of a racy interracial sex scene with Margot Kidder from Richard Pryor's 1982 Vietnam vet drama 'Some Kind of Hero,' and how the film's only press screening was held in Anchorage, Alaska.

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My Movie With Richard Pryor — and How Hollywood Racism Ruined It

A veteran filmmaker recalls how a racy interracial sex scene with Margot Kidder got cut out of Pryor's 1982's Vietnam vet drama 'Some Kind of Hero' — and how the the only press screening for the movie ended up being held in Anchorage, Alaska.

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