Eddie Murphy’s “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” starts streaming on Netflix today. But long before even the original movie came out in 1987, Murphy’s comedic gifts were obvious, including to a Brighton ...

After the blockbuster success of 1996’s The Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy was once again the biggest name in comedy, a title he’d enjoyed throughout the 1980s, but not so much during the first half of ...

For decades, Eddie Murphy has been a force of nature: a comedian, an actor, and a storyteller who changed the rhythm of showbiz with every role he undertook. But even legends have stories the ...