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This adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes’ book, Woman Thou Art Loosed, is about a woman’s struggle with her demons both emotional and literal. The main character, Michelle, played by Kimberly Elise, is raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of 12, and cannot reconcile her painful past with her spiritual quest for God. She faces this conflict after her first stint in jail—she was arrested for either drug abuse, prostitution or all of the above: the incoherent script never clarifies and, honestly, no audience could really care less...
...minute film. It touches on issues arising from rape, child abuse, child molesting, domestic violence, adultery, alcoholism, denial, various forms of illicit substance abuse, prostitution, and of course, murder. And for the sake of providing some hope, there are five or six extensive sermons by the bishop himself...
...else who makes his living in front of an audience, Foxx has an insecure side, but it wages a pitched battle for control of his personality with a confidence that borders on the absurd. "Five hundred years ago," says Foxx, "slaves got a message to a kid named Eric Bishop saying that he's going to change his name to Jamie Foxx and do great things with great people and inspire a generation." Sometimes that pitched battle is very one-sided...
Three years later, having changed his name from Eric Bishop to the gender-neutral Jamie Foxx (comedy-club owners at the time were booking women sight unseen), he landed on In Living Color, the sketch-comedy show that launched the careers of Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez and several dozen Wayanses. Foxx soon made a name for himself playing characters like Ugly Wanda on In Living Color, Crazy George on Roc and Bunz in Booty Call, a movie about a quest for condoms. (He also released an R&B album, Peep This, that he would like to forget.) But Foxx discovered...
...dead and displaced 4,000, underscored how a peaceful, multiethnic Kosovo was still a fiction. Since then, Kosovar Serb representatives have withdrawn from local U.N.-sponsored institutions. Though the new Serbian President Boris Tadic has called on Kosovar Serbs to vote, he is virtually alone in doing so. Bishop Artemije, a Serbian Orthodox prelate, even compared voting to "national suicide." Under a new plan, the elected Assembly will be assessed in a series of reviews on its adherence to democratic practice and respect for minority rights. A positive result will lead to "final status" talks...