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Authors: Scott Saul

influence of, 464

production crew, 407, 409

reviews, 462–63

writing of, 395, 403, 404–7, 551n403, 552n406, 552n408

White Lightning
(film), 400

Whitfield, Norman, 394

Whittaker, Juliette, 66, 67–74,
68
, 75, 107, 142, 228, 340, 341, 343, 416, 417, 505n69

Wilder, Billy, 474

Wilder, Gene, 308, 386, 387–89,
389
, 391, 392, 474, 548n388

Wild in the Streets
(film), 210, 218, 219, 312, 527n219

Wild Wild West, The
(TV show), 163–64, 210

Williams, Bert, 256, 463, 464.
See also
blackface minstrelsy

Williams, Billy Dee

affair with Patricia Heitman, 309, 368

in
Bingo Long
, 367, 368, 373

in
Carter’s Army
, 231

in
Hit!
, 309

in
Lady Sings the Blues
, 277–78

relationship with RP, 309, 368, 372

Williams, John A., xiv

Williams, Robin, 431, 458–59

Williams, Sylvester “Weasel,” 94

Williamson, Fred, 365–66

Wilson, Flip, 361, 427

Winters, Jonathan, 100

Wiz, The
(film), 450, 452–54, 465

Wolper, David, 157, 314, 316–17

Wood, Natalie, 156, 245

Woodruff, Ed, 19, 22, 29, 56–57

World War II

adultery among war brides, 36

Peoria and, 29, 499n29

postwar boom, xv

soldier pay, 30

Western Front, 31

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
(Reed), 256

Yingst, Margaret, 58–63,
61

York Club, 529n238

Young, Al, 255

Young, Andrew, 449

Young Lawyers, The
(TV movie), 229, 230

Youngman, Henny, 240

Zappa, Frank, 188, 193

Zielinski, Richard, 473–74

ZPG
(film), 289

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Photograph by Peg Korpinski

SCOTT SAUL
is an associate professor of English at the University of California–Berkeley. His writing has appeared in
Harper’s
, the
New York Times
, and the
Nation
, among other publications. He is the author of
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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CREDITS

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COPYRIGHT

BECOMING RICHARD PRYOR
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FIRST EDITION

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Saul, Scott.

Becoming Richard Pryor / Scott Saul.—First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-06-212330-5

1. Pryor, Richard, 1940–2005. 2. Comedians—United States—Biography. 3. Actors—United States—Biography. I. Title.

PN2287.P77S38 2015

792.7602'8092—dc23 [B] 2014034682

EPub Edition December 2014 ISBN 9780062123336