Like The Disaster Artist—James Franco’s tribute to Hollywood’s favorite weirdo, Tommy Wiseau—a large portion of Dolemite is My Name is dedicated to recreating a low-budget, DIY, and completely ...

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Dolemite Is My Name is a new Netflix biopic about comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who created a flamboyant alter ego and became a blaxploitation legend in the 1970s. The film stars Eddie Murphy, who's joined ...

Eddie Murphy and Netflix will deliver a history lesson this week with Dolemite Is My Name, a new Netflix original movie about comedian and actor Rudy Ray Moore. Moore is best known for his 1975 ...

Rudy Ray Moore, the1970’s comedian who played the starring role of a fast-talking pimp in the 1975 film “Dolemite,” died on Sunday of complications from diabetes at the age of 81, in a nursing home in ...

"Dolemite is my name, and f----- up m----f---- is my game," the NSFW trailer shows Murphy's Rudy Ray Moore saying Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

If you've only seen the top tier of the so-called "blaxploitation" action films of the 1970s -- "Super Fly," "Black Caesar," "Foxy Brown" -- it may be time to go deeper. "Dolemite" (1975) will do the ...

Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden ...

The film centers on Rudy Ray Moore, D.I.Y. comedy pioneer, hip-hop forefather and blaxploitation star. Here’s the true story behind the movie and where you can watch the original. By Reggie Ugwu Rudy ...

DOLEMITE screens Midnights this weekend (February 9th and 10th) at The Moolah Theater and Lounge (3821 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63108) as part of Destroy the Brain’s monthly Late Nite Grindhouse ...

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