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1 July 2008 12:25 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Hide your transvestite hookers: Eddie Murphy may have a lot more free time on his hands.

According to WENN, he might be hanging it up after a career that began promisingly with 48 Hours and Beverly Hills Cop and ran aground ten years later. Even his Oscar nomination for Dreamgirls felt obligatory. Except to Murphy, of course, who's such a good sport he walked out of the ceremony after losing to a better performance by a better human being (Alan Arkin). There were actually quite a few better candidates than Murphy that year, and I'd be glad to list them for you should you ask.

So now, the once funny but long since irrelevant and self-absorbed Murphy might call it quits.

"I have close to fifty movies and it's like, why am I in the movies? I've done that part now," said Murphy. "I'll go back to the stage and do stand-up. »

- Colin Boyd

1 article from 2008