All posts tagged "Eddie Murphy"

U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is breathing new life into an old Eddie Murphy movie tag line: “He’s going to do to congress what congress is doing to you.”

That’s according to Marty Kaplan, the screenwriter who wrote “The Distinguished Gentleman” about a con man who lies his way into congress.

“When I wrote the screenplay, I never imagined anyone could actually pull off a scam like that,” Kaplan writes in his new opinion piece for Politico. “The Distinguished Gentleman may not exactly have been art, but life was all-in on imitating it.”...

WASHINGTON — Eddie Murphy is to star in a television film under development by HBO about Washington's colorful and controversial former mayor Marion Barry, the US cable channel said Tuesday.

Except for the polls showing him gaining, Obama is losing. Also notice that the latter poll comes from Zogby, who in a race between candidate A and candidate B shows a surprising strength for Eddie Murphy.