“When I made Trading Places , Eddie was 19 or 20 and bouncing off the wall with talent and was a very happy guy,” John Landis recalled recently about this year’s Academy Award host drop-out . “When I made Coming to America , it was a few years later, Eddie had become an international star and was not as happy. It was awkward on that film because he was kind of a jerk, and we had a real falling out. But still we worked together very well.” [ NYT ]

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