Word: foxx
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...Wayne has a smoke-scarred rasp that makes him sound like Redd Foxx covering Bob Dylan. It's hardly the voice you'd expect from a 25-year-old rap star, but then, it's been a busy 25 years...
Wayne claims his rhymes are stream of consciousness, but even if they aren't, they sound as though they're hitting the air for the first time, unfolding with an electricity that's--forbid the sacrilege--Dylanesque. Redd Foxx would probably...
...summer, Downey will appear as an Australian Method actor who is overly committed to playing a black soldier in Ben Stiller's raucous satire of filmmaking and war movies, Tropic Thunder. And in the fall comes another plum role, as a journalist who discovers a schizophrenic Juilliard violinist (Jamie Foxx) living on the streets of Los Angeles in Joe Wright's drama The Soloist. Downey's career feels a lot more than six years removed from 2002, when Woody Allen said he couldn't afford to cast the unstable actor in Melinda and Melinda because it cost too much...
...right wing, is that nobody went to see these movies. In the Valley of Elah, Rendition, Lions for Lambs, Redacted - together, in their entire theatrical runs, they earned only about what Will Smith's I Am Legend did on one day last weekend. Even if you throw in Jamie Foxx's Saudi Arabia-set action epic The Kingdom, the total box office take of the war-on-terror films doesn't match the earnings of, say, Fahrenheit 9/11...
...reputation falls as its body count rises. The U.S. hasn't had a clear, exhilarating win since World War II. (The 1991 Gulf War doesn't count, since it lasted little longer than Viva Laughlin.) So The Kingdom tried to find an old-fashioned upside by dispatching Jamie Foxx and his FBI team to find the Arabic villains and kill 'em all--a fantasy solution to a real dilemma...