Word: foxx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie sees this emotional colorizing as a good thing. Waking from the prolonged childhood of the '50s (when Ike was the omnipotent dad), America attended to the culture bubbling under its consciousness--to rhythm and blues, to Lenny Bruce and Redd Foxx, to Lolita and Lady Chatterley's Lover--and took a heroic leap into the enthralling unknown, the flourishing of art, the liberation of race and gender. Yet it can also be argued that the opening of those emotional pores brought a more debased culture: drug epidemics, teen pregnancy, splatter movies, penis-size jokes on every sitcom, Marilyn Manson...
...columnists and talk-show callers went nuts. They railed that it was an insult to the integrity of sports--as bad, some argued, as point shaving. But this sort of assist to a deserving player is not unprecedented: Mickey Mantle was served a big fat pitch to pass Jimmie Foxx's career home-run mark. And why are all these people suddenly taking such an interest in a women's college scoring record? This isn't usually the stuff of CNN's Headline Sports...
...closest black university to my house in Brooklyn. Plus I remember being at Saturday Night Live and they couldn't find any black writers. Where do you go to get black comedy writers? Redd Foxx's friends...
...Jamie Foxx Show (WB) A show-biz aspirant takes a job in his family's hotel...
...Foxx agrees, saying the city has become tooexpensive to live in. "Under the currentconditions of the housing stock in Cambridge, whatthe residency requirement would do is effectivelycut out a large portion of the minority hiringpool," he says...