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...stars expressed their grief directly, touchingly and sometimes without a script. The tribute might have had more impact, however, if one of the stars in question had performed a song as well. It was a curiously unmusical moment for a memorial to a singer. But after it ended, Jamie Foxx, the host of the evening (the verdict: better than the Wayans Bros. but not as good as Chris Rock) did a cool, classy job of lifting the spirits of the crowd during the commercial break. By the time the cameras were rolling again, the crowd was, to borrow his words...
...September 7 and 10. Some seats are going for around $2,500. Now, I like Michael Jackson. I'll be the first person in line to buy his album, "Invincible," when it comes out on October. Well, maybe the second, after Macaulay Culkin. But I agree with what host Foxx said during the MTV Video Music Awards: If you're gonna spend thousands on a Jackson concert, there better be a lot more Jacksons on stage, including Jesse...
Chris Rock's voice is a marvel in and of itself, an unlikely fusion of gravel and pipsqueakitude. Always shouting but miraculously never hoarse, he's the bastard vocal son of Redd Foxx and Rosie Perez. And when it comes to American Bestness, Rock may be this project's least controversial selection. After all, TIME has already labeled the 35-year-old comedian "the funniest man in America" in a previous issue. His professed admirers include peers such as Woody Allen ("I'd love to work with him"), Richard Pryor ("Does he remind me of me? I'm afraid...
...show's true novelty stems from its relatively realistic portrayal of poor blacks in a warm, natural relationship. "My friends in the black community told me they're gonna be at home watching, just like it's a Joe Louis fight," Foxx said when the show began. "Means a lot to them." It must have meant a lot to other people as well. In one of the fastest ascents in TV history, "Sanford" shot up into the top ten rated shows, close behind "Family...
...This is where Yorkin and Lear's flair for casting shows up ? in picking seemingly unlikely performers who will grow their roles and shape them with their own temperaments. Veteran Comic Foxx won his "Sanford" role partly on the strength of his only other dramatic appearance ? as a junkman in the 1970 "Cotton Comes to Harlem." He and Co-Star Demond Wilson now work with "Sanford's" Producer and Chief Writer Aaron Ruben, who is white, to "translate the scripts into spook," as Foxx puts it. "The writers are beginning to learn black is another language." (Meantime, Ruben is training...