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The old-style vaudeville houses have closed and are decaying along with the cities surrounding them.
What turns people on now are outlaws.
Heroes arent just hustlers butresplendenthustlers, colorfully flouting the old, accommodationist ways.
If the system is crooked, theyll be crookeder joyously, filthily, libidinously so.
So, Dolemite is commercial dynamite.
If Dolemite was Moores restart button, Moore is Murphys.
Look, children, its a falling star!
So, coming from behind is new for Murphy.
He needs new challenges.
Writers Alexander and Karaszewski give him his best material in decades.
Murphys Moore is a rejoinder to F. Scott Fitzgeralds famous assertion that in America there are no second acts.
In outline,Dolemite Is My Nameis as straightforward as a rags-to-riches tale can be.
I dont think Murphy is faking his delight in showing Moore finding his persona.
And Moore doesnt simply invent the character he invents the means of reaching the public.
For Alexander and Karaszewski, it wouldnt be American without a degree of deception.
Despite the threat of poverty,Dolemite Is My Nameisnt deep or dark.
It has the buoyant, lets-put-on-a-show feel ofEd Wood.
