The Nutty Professor (1996 film) The Nutty Professor (1996 film) The Nutty Professor is a 1996 American slapstick science-fiction comedy film starring Eddie Murphy. It is a remake of the 1963 film of the same name, which starred Jerry Lewis, which itself was a parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". The film co-stars Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle and John Ales. The original music score was composed by David Newman. The film won Best Makeup at the 69th Academy Awards. Murphy portrays a university professor, Sherman Klump, a kind-hearted man who is morbidly obese. A
Fool for Love (play) Fool for Love (play) Fool for Love is a play written by American playwright and actor Sam Shepard. The play focuses on May and Eddie, former lovers who have met again in a motel in the desert. The play premiered in 1983 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, where Shepard was the playwright-in-residence. The play was a finalist for the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play is part of a quintet which includes Shepard's Family Trilogy: "Curse of the Starving Class" (1977), "Buried Child" (1979), and "True West" (1980). The quintet concludes with "Fool for Love" and "A