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There is one major difference between the boy who was and the writer-director who is. He has now found a crew of similarly skewed comic co-conspirators and perfected an improvisational technique that permits him to explore--with the sweetest, deadest pan--that place where our visions of glory ought to die for lack of nourishment but somehow survive on the crumbs of hope that drop from the celebrity culture's groaning board...
...pity the blacks who had to play in them. But there are shades of culpability. Astaire, donning blackface for his Bojangles of Harlem number, probably thought (from ignorance, not malice) that he was paying sincere tribute to the great dancer Bill Robinson. As for Mantan Moreland, the black comic whose bug-eyed mugging in Charlie Chan films earns Lee's particular ire, he also was the star of films made for, and presumably appreciated by, the black audience. Perhaps we all have 20/20 vision of the past; it's the present that blurs. Today most whites are ashamed...
...stern father has just read a perfectly ghastly memorial poem to his dead mother. Now let's say the young man courting his daughter has just made a little joke about the urn on the dining-room mantle. It does not take a great comic mind to imagine that it contains grandma's remains...
...going to end up on Jack's roof, chasing a cat, holding a live wire in one hand, putting out a leaf fire with one foot while trying to pretend the overflow in the septic tank down below is not his fault. De Niro is getting awfully good at comic menace (see Analyze This), and Stiller, a handsome guy who never alludes to his good looks, is a deliciously preoccupied innocent...
...course, funny man and star of Bait Jamie Foxx shows his versatility as an entertainer on the last track, "Bed Springs." Even though the track provides a little comic relief to the album (either intentional or not), Foxx's talent manages to shine through. Ironically, the album's strong diversity also provides its only weakness. How does a love song entitled "Remarkable" from Jaheim make it onto an album with songs such as "Sex, Sex, Money, Money" and "I Love Being a Gangsta?" Despite this, the soundtrack is worth a listen from hip-hop heads of all types...