A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

LET'S HEAR IT FOR MY BAND, SEXUAL CHOCOLATE: I am among those who will be pulling (sight yet-unseen) for Eddie Murphy to get Oscar recognition for his work as James "Thunder" Early in Dreamgirls, but man, can Murphy be harsh, as today's Times relates in a diss so cold it makes Ice Cube's "No Vaseline" (as NSFW as text comes) seem like child's play:

During a press conference in New York to promote “Coming to America,” Mr. Murphy was asked if he would ever work with [director John] Landis again. Without hesitation, he said: “Vic Morrow has a better chance of working with Landis than I do.”

Great Chris Rock quote in the article as well: “There would be no Chris Tucker, me, Martin Lawrence or any new young black comic today if Eddie hadn’t paved the way for us, especially in films. Without Eddie, then Chris, Martin and myself would have only have made as many movies in our career as Jude Law made the last three months. Peter Sellers got tons of credit for doing multiple characters, but that was just him doing him. Eddie is all those wacky family characters he portrays in ‘Coming to America’ and ‘The Nutty Professor’ pictures. Eddie should have got multiple Oscars for the multiple characters that he played in those movies alone.”