Flashback to 1988!

EDDIE MURPHY GRAPPLES WITH FAME AND FORTUNE ON AND OFF THE SCREEN

- BRENDAN LE

From People's Aug. 8, 1988, issue: Eddie Murphy's soaring success— with seven movies in less than six years grossing more than a billion dollars—brought problems with money, with women, with fame. His new film Coming to America—in which Murphy, 27, plays an African prince who journeys to the U.S. to find a bride who loves him for who he is and not what he has—also reflects his struggle to cope with the isolation that comes with fame a