{"id":2150970,"date":"2025-11-12T08:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2150970"},"modified":"2025-11-12T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:11:58","slug":"being-eddie-review-eddie-murphy-tells-some-but-decidedly-not-all-in-netflixs-affectionate-doc-about-fame-and-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/being-eddie-review-eddie-murphy-tells-some-but-decidedly-not-all-in-netflixs-affectionate-doc-about-fame-and-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Being Eddie\u2019 Review: Eddie Murphy Tells Some (but Decidedly Not All) in Netflix\u2019s Affectionate Doc About Fame and Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">In the \u201980s and \u201990s, few movie titans were bigger than <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000216\/\">Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000230\/\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000552\/\">Eddie Murphy<\/a>. The presence of just one of their names on a marquee wasn\u2019t a guarantee of quality, but darned if we didn\u2019t show up anyway. Mostly. Sorry, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0107362\/\">Last Action Hero<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088001\/\">Rhinestone<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1624996\/\">Vampire<\/a> in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pre-social-media age, back when it was possible to feel like you loved a movie star for their aura, without feeling like they were your friend and you might enjoy hanging out with them and sharing a pizza.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> has worked hard to correct the perceived aloofness built into being a mega-celebrity, letting these icons descend, however temporarily, from their pedestals.<\/p>\n<p>Putting viewers on a first-name basis right from the start, documentaries like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9557596\/\">Arnold<\/a>, Sly and the streamer\u2019s latest, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt35627915\/\">Being Eddie<\/a>, deliver amiable familiarity, indelible clip packages and a steady&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the \u201980s and \u201990s, few movie titans were bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Eddie Murphy. The presence of just one of their names on a marquee wasn\u2019t a guarantee of quality, but darned if we didn\u2019t show up anyway. Mostly. Sorry, Last Action Hero, Rhinestone and Vampire in Brooklyn. 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