"Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling" was the title of the autobiographical film written, directed, and starring Richard Pryor. This is the second in the six degrees of Marty Feldman. Richard was one of the greatest stand up comics of all time, but is perhaps most loved for his films with his friend, Gene Wilder. Less known is his role as G.O.D. in Marty Feldman's "In God We Trust". Perhaps one of his greatest accomplishments was co-writing Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles", not only a classic comedy, but a brilliant knock at racism.
I have little to say about the actual drawing apart from the fact that I am stunned at how few people nowadays know him. I used two pencils, 2H and B, and I worked the paper a little too hard, hence this image has a heavy contrast. Oh, yeah, and I set my leg on fire while I was finishing it.
Just a late by the way, the last thing I said was not a joke. Ironic, but it really happened.
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The movie, Jo Jo Dancer is a brilliant film as long as you are not expecting something like Stir Crazy. It is simultaneously touching and hard hitting. Knowing more about his life, it was much more autobiographical than even Pryor wanted to admit at the time of it's production.
You captured the emotion and power of the man very well in this piece, CINN. Very well done.
And Blazing Saddles..what a movie!
Thank you so much for saying what you said. I did actually, and factually, set my own damn leg on fire while I was finishing it. I am very happy say that, and I feel it oddly appropriate. There is humor in every sorrow, and I found my own.
Thank you. Power is such a great word for Richard. He really was a powerful man. And he is.
many and muchly, I assure you.
:hugs: