{"id":4264,"date":"1967-09-09T03:08:55","date_gmt":"1967-09-09T03:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2014-10-09T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T21:36:02","slug":"boxing-days-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1967\/09\/09\/boxing-days-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Pryor Launched in Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of Richard Pryor&#8217;s first film role &#8211; &#8220;The Busy Body,&#8221; starring Hollywood heavyweights like Anne Baxter and Sid Caesar &#8211;\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Peoria Journal Star<\/em> captured a charming portrait of Richard&#8217;s family and hometown. Looking back on Richard&#8217;s brief and unlikely boxing career, the <em>Star<\/em> brings insight from old timers who insist the comic likely won his first fight by distracting his opponent with a \u00a0joke. \u00a0It is also an account, however, of Richard finally moving past black Peoria&#8217;s confines. The image of Buck, himself a former boxer, and Ann Pryor bearing witness to the their son&#8217;s success is a powerful one, encapsulating a moment when Richard steps outside of (but never abandons) the black Peorian community that birthed him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of Richard Pryor&#8217;s first film role &#8211; &#8220;The Busy Body,&#8221; starring Hollywood heavyweights like Anne Baxter and Sid Caesar &#8211;\u00a0the\u00a0Peoria Journal Star captured a charming portrait of Richard&#8217;s family and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[367,337,415,396,63,21,64,54],"tags":[268,319,320,59,425],"class_list":["post-4264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-born-star","category-sophisticated-lady","category-5-reports-and-homecomings","category-richard-returns-to-peoria","category-ann-pryor","category-family-affairs","category-leroy-pryor","category-richard-pryor","tag-ann-pryor-2","tag-boxing","tag-film","tag-leroy-buck-pryor","tag-richard-pryor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>R. 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