That was 20 years ago and more. Decorators,' they chorused, flying around the room. They were wearing rope-soled sandals and tight Italian pants, and I wish my wife was built like them . . . Our mothers didn't have decorators. I haven't moved for an hour.
Suburbanites are very moral people.
And he is, in fact, from Roosevelt. Murphy's ascendency in the world of comedy was short of meteoric, but not by much. Murphy's comedy heroes were Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor, and he used to hone his craft in neighborhood candy stores, because Roosevelt High didn' t have a drama program. Murphy eventually gravitated west, to spots like the Improvisation and the Comedy Strip in Manhattan, and then Hollywood, and didn't look back. Others, however, look back all the time.