Two recent film portrayals of African-American women have drawn huge audiences: Tyler Perry's Madea character, which has spawned a franchise; and Eddie Murphy's Rasputia in Norbit. Both characters are ...

EDDIE MURPHY is the most gifted shape shifter working in comedy today. He can do just about anything and make us laugh, usually the more sophomoric, the better. But in the crass comedy “Norbit,” he’s ...

Someday — someday very soon — he’ll be Academy Award winner Eddie Murphy. And that’s what he’ll be for the rest of his life. For now, though, he’s “Norbit.” And Rasputia. And Mr. Wong. Yes, Murphy ...

The first thing you have to say about Norbit is that it has taken full advantage of cutting-edge advances in artificial cellulite technology. More dimpled and roly-poly than Eddie Murphy's Klump ...

I'm the kind of person who has to do things for himself. So, when controversy out broke over Eddie Murphy’s film ‘‘Norbit,’’ I headed for the theater. I had read many of the reviews and had heard much ...

WASHINGTON — She is wearing a hot pink nightie fringed by tiny hot pink feathers. Her big, brown legs are polished and wrap around the man lying beneath her. Her makeup is perfect. The man lying ...

Eddie Murphy plays three roles in his latest “Nutty Professor” clone, titled “Norbit.” And Eddie Griffin still steals his movie from him. Murphy, Oscar nomination aside, has spent much of the past ...

Visually, “Norbit” ranks right up there with “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “The Nutty Professor” remake in the ranks of comedies whose stars are disguised with prosthetic body parts. Eddie Murphy looks ...

“Norbit” is called “Norbit” presumably because “Yet Another Movie In Which Eddie Murphy Plays Multiple Characters and Wears a Fat Suit and Wastes His Talent, Just Months After Showing Us How Good He ...

It is Eddie Murphy times three as he plays both man and wife in DreamWorks “Norbit,” which finished at the top of the box office. The multi-character comedy with mean overtones brought in $33.7 ...