Word: cube
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...tapped to star in a remake of “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House,” the 1948 comedy starring Cary Grant. The film was previously reinterpreted in 1986 as “The Money Pit,” a film featuring Tom Hanks. Now that Cube has joined the ranks of American sweethearts like Grant and Hanks, I think it’s safe to say that whatever remained of his street credibility is shot...
...libations may be a little premature: Cube is still, in the biological sense of the word, “alive” (unlike, say, Tupac and Biggie). But the last ten years of his career have all but erased the memory of his ascendancy in the controversial West Coast “gangsta rap” scene...
Cube’s films, by and large, have embraced mainstream values while reinforcing the white-washed American master narrative. In “Barbershop,” for example, Cube plays the role of the titular shop’s owner. Throughout the movie, he assists his local police department in the capture of two petty criminals, thwarts a neighborhood loan shark, and forsakes his “childish” dream of building a home recording studio so that he can focus on keeping the barbershop solvent...
...ironic that Cube, who coined the phrase “fuck the police,” should play a law enforcement stoolie. Worse, his character echoes the worst tendencies of the bourgeois ethos: he abandons his creative endeavors to become more fiscally successful. “Barbershop” is a complete repudiation of everything that Cube stood for as a musician. When did the self-described “nigga you love to hate” become so thoroughly inoffensive...
...quintillion Number of unique Cube configurations...