Playboy Interview: Eddie Murphy

February, 1990

"Open the gate."Eddie Murphy, dressed in a typical at-home outfit of spandex bicycle pants, athletic jersey and cap, has just strolled down his number-nine-shaped asphalt driveway to the property's edge. A guard in the security kiosk nods uncertainly."Hey, open the gate," says Murphy again, signaling with an upraised hand.The wrought-iron electronic portals to Bubble Hill, his $3,500,000 colonial brick minimansion in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, part sluggishly and Murphy sl...