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An anti-gay group is calling for a boycott of Ryan Murphy’s upcoming NBC comedy The New Normal.

One Million Moms, an ultra-conservative organization that previously criticized JC Penney for featuring a same-sex couple in a catalog, is now coming after the Glee co-creator’s new show. Murphy’s New Normal is about a gay male couple having their first child via a surrogate.

The group complained in a posting on its Web… Continue reading Ryan Murphy’s new NBC sitcom draws anti-gay protest

Pretty much every time Eddie Murphy releases a film like A Thousand Words, Imagine That, Meet Dave or even Daddy Daycare, the critical world at large starts wondering out loud about whether we’ll ever see the ‘return of funny Eddie,’ which is of course code for ‘R-rated Eddie Murphy.’  The implication is, of course, that Murphy’s more family-friendly work isn’t funny, which is true (Meet Dave, The Haunted Mansion) about… Continue reading How The Nutty Professor Explains Eddie Murphy's Entire Film Career












eddie murphy Eddie Murphys Oscar Duties Already Paying Dividends for A Thousand Words

With the November release of ‘Tower Heist’ and his gig as host of the 2012 Academy Awards, the next six months are already shaping up as The Eddie Murphy Comeback Tour. Hoping to take advantage of Murphy’s soon-to-be-burgeoning-once-again starpower? Paramount. Deadline reports that the studio has moved the Murphy-led dramedy ‘A Thousand Words’ to March 23, 2012, less than a month after the… Continue reading Eddie Murphy's Oscar Duties Already Paying Dividends for 'A Thousand Words'

… Before he was writing stories about singing high-schoolers, Ryan Murphy wrote about horny plastic surgeons and men undergoing sex changes on Nip/Tuck and the never-saw-the-light-of-day Pretty/Handsome, respectively. Point is, beneath the joyous pop-song covers and colorful sheen of Glee, Murphy has a few screws loose. And that’s the Murphy we’ll see on display in FX’s newest project, American Horror Story, which was picked up to series today. The exact… Continue reading FX Picks Up Ryan Murphy's American Horror Story

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