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...four others on the tapes--Muhammad Sa'id Ali Hasan, Khalid Ibn Muhammad Al-Juhani, Abd Al-Rahim and one as yet unidentified--had not previously appeared on America's most wanted list. Administration officials don't believe the tapes contain coded messages to al-Qaeda sleepers. Analysts say the tapes were created strictly for internal consumption or for the men's families. The men spoke of accepting their fate as martyrs, joining the war against infidels and becoming one with Allah, but they did not discuss specific targets or timing...
...Ali...
...rendering of Brown is almost every bit as bold as director Michael Mann's film. Foxx, 34, studied videotapes of the champ's confidant, who died in 1987, and gathered anecdotes from those who knew him. An ace impersonator, Foxx also clowned around on the phone, as Bundini, with Ali himself. "You'd hear Muhammad laughing," recalls Foxx, "like he was talking to his old friend...
Most of the supporting cast in Ali is overshadowed by the swaggering performances of ringleader Will Smith and Jon Voight as Howard Cosell. But if you look closely, you will see that the movie's most tragic and comic moments come from Jamie Foxx as Ali's corner man, Drew (Bundini) Brown...
...with his solid reviews in Ali helping cement his reputation as a Serious Actor, Foxx is dreaming large. "If I were to ever win an Oscar," he says, "I'd have a gold chain with the Oscar on my neck everywhere I went...