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...Cars, which opens June 9, you voice the character of Doc Hudson, a mysterious 1951 Hudson Hornet and former racing champ who doesn't seem to be that popular. What's his problem? He's a solitary kind of car. Maybe his carburetor isn't working like it used...
...Jamie Foxx, two of the film's stars, strode down a carpeted sidewalk. Besides Foxx and Beyoncé, most of the principal cast lent their luster to the evening. Anika Noni Rose, a 2004 Tony winner for Caroline, or Change, was brought up on stage, as were Jennifer Hudson from American Idol and star-of-the-future Keith Robinson (who got his chance when negotiations with R&B singer Usher broke down). Eddie Murphy couldn't make it, so Foxx managed a dead-accurate impersonation, right down to Murphy's trademark donkey laugh...
...Henry Krieger, who composed the original score to Tom Eyen's lyrics, has written four new songs with different lyricists. (Eyen died of AIDS 15 years ago this week.) Hudson gets another tune; Murphy has a Marvin Gaye-style protest number, "Patience"; Beyoncé has a second-act ballad; and there's a playful homage to the Jackson Five...
...that Cars ever idles, for the townsfolk constitute a sweet if improbable rainbow coalition of vintage vehicles. They support the trio that will retool Lightning's egotism into community spirit: gruff Doc Hudson; lovely, sensible Sally; and--the movie's breakout car-actor--an endearingly yokelish tow truck named Mater...
During the 1980s, he began work with the Riverkeepers, a group of attorneys, New York residents, and fishermen concerned with pollution in the Hudson River...