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...Barbershop was sitcom-like to begin with, and not in a bad way. Most of the funniest gags came not from the wispy plot but from people standing around talking. And along with the broader humor were flashes of commentary, notably a controversial rant from a character played by Cedric the Entertainer, who said Rosa Parks was an overrated civil rights hero and "ain't do nothing but sit her black ass down...
...star's clothing chain called Niggaz. (The chain, the narration explains, is "the value-priced version of his high-end store, Uppity Niggaz, in Beverly Hills.") One character argues that the store empowers black people by taking back a word from white racists. Eddie (Barry Shabaka Henley, reprising Cedric's character) scoffs that young people know the term from rap videos, while he knows it from Klan rallies, at which, incidentally, "there wasn't no hot young things shakin' it like a Polaroid." When it turns out the Niggaz franchise is owned by a salt-of-the-earth Asian American...
...Although," she adds, "undeniably, morals are drawn." But she doesn't make it easy. In Goblet, the good-hearted Cedric Diggory dies for no reason. In Phoenix, we learn that Harry's dad, whom he idealized, had been an arrogant bully. People aren't good and bad by nature; they change and transform and struggle. As Dumbledore tells Harry, "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." Granted, we know Harry will not succumb to anger and evil. But we never stop feeling that he could. (Interestingly, although Rowling is a member...
Believing that people will pay $9 for what they used to get for free, moviemakers are updating and inflating old TV shows--from Bewitched (Nicole Kidman) to The Honeymooners, with Cedric the Entertainer in the Ralph Kramden role. "We try to stay true to the main theme," says Cedric, "which is this guy dreaming of a bigger life for his family and always doing it by some kind of get-rich-quick scheme." Want to see what Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been doing onscreen? Catch them as rival government hit men in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, suggested...
Unlike with the recording of the band’s 2003 debut De-Loused in the Comatorium or any output from At The Drive-In (the El Paso afro-toting prog-punk powerhouse he and crooner Cedric Bixler, the other permanent ‘Marsvoltian’, led until 2001) the drug policy with this record was to wait until after the recording to start the debauchery. The good news, for those who have warmed to the histrionic, full-blown theatrics of the Mars Volta, is that the sober influence is not felt...