Two people owned the ’80’s in entertainment: One is obviously the King of Pop, the late Michael Jackson. The other is Edward Regan Murphy of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Eddie Murphy is, irrefutably, one of the greatest box-office attractions in the history of the motion picture industry. His meteoric rise from being a young teen comedian in New York City into a magnetic television personality and eventually a box-office blockbuster machine is dumbfounding, especially when you pause to take inventory of his spectacular career.