Word: junkman
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...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...