Arsenio Corridor’s goals of getting a threesome had been thwarted by Eddie Murphy — after the actor bought right into a bodily altercation on the set of “Coming to America.”
In “Arsenio: A Memoir,” the previous talk-show host, now 70, writes that whereas taking pictures the 1988 comedy, he was gifted some “outrageous New York weed” and invited two ladies for dinner and a non-public celebration at his Waldorf Astoria suite.
“I’ve lengthy dreamed of getting a ménage-à-trois,” he writes. “Name it excessive on my bucket checklist, perhaps within the high three, and tonight’s the night time. I’m about to meet my dream.”
Corridor says his dates had been “making out on the sofa and I’m getting turned on,” when the cellphone rang.
He reluctantly answered it to search out Paramount Photos president Ned Tanen on the opposite finish, bellowing that “Coming to America” was off.
Tanen furiously relayed that Murphy had “choked” the film’s director, John Landis, “on Queens Boulevard, in entrance of a whole crowd,” main him to “f–king stop.”
Corridor had seen “an uncomfortable vibe between” Murphy and Landis, calling the dynamic between them “fraught.” The 2 had beforehand labored collectively on 1983’s “Buying and selling Locations.”
Keen to save lots of the day, he referred to as off his celebration plans and instantly took a limo to Murphy’s Englewood, NJ property, Bubble Hill. Though Murphy usually by no means imbibed, he determined the time was proper.
The 2 started downing screwdrivers and Corridor pulled out his bag of weed — one thing else Murphy by no means did. However Corridor insisted and taught the “48 Hours” star the best way to inhale and exhale.
“We drink and smoke and get excessive as motherf–ka,” he writes.
The following day, Corridor returned to the Waldorf and obtained one other name saying that “Landis has returned to work, he and Eddie have met, agreed to a truce, or made up, or — I by no means do discover out precisely what occurred that afternoon on Queens Boulevard.”
Whereas selling the film, Murphy was requested if he would work with Landis once more, prompting him to quip, “Vic Morrow has a greater likelihood of working with Landis than I do” — referring to the actor who was killed in a ugly set accident whereas Landis was filming 1983’s “Twilight Zone: The Film.”
However, Landis and Murphy reunited for “Beverly Hills Cop III” in 1994.
