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...hard to deny. In addition to nailing his performance as Charles in Ray--not only proving he can carry a movie but making him the surest thing for an Oscar nomination this side of Julia Roberts playing the ugly girl--Foxx, 36, remains one of the top-grossing stand-up comedians on the planet, and earlier this year he collaborated with Twista and Kanye West on a No. 1 hit, Slow Jamz. Foxx signed a record deal last week with Clive Davis' J Records, which hopes to release a Jamie Foxx solo album by the spring of 2005, just around...
Rather than smother a budding reputation, Foxx turned down every film role for a year. "I had something to fall back on," he says, referring to the lucrative stand-up tour he did in 2001. "But I believe that with acting, people will find you if you have talent. And I have talent." Sure enough, Michael Mann eventually saw Any Given Sunday and hired Foxx to play the worshipful corner man, Drew (Bundini) Brown, in Ali. He drew plaudits--and more bad scripts. Then Taylor Hackford called...
...list comedian—not of the air of Chappelle, Farrell or Ali G—that’s a painful check to sign. If the council succeeds in filling up 1,166 seats in Sanders Theater it will be because students are in the mood for some stand-up; Breuer is not the draw (that is, outside the realm of the SNL devotees out there—and there are fewer of you than you think). So, as long as we’re not paying for a name to sell seats, why are we paying so much...
...DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, necktie-tugging, bug-eyed U.S. comedian known for his self-deprecating one-liners and his catch phrase, "I don't get no respect"; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a young stand-up comic under the name Jack Roy, he quit show business and sold aluminum siding for 12 years. But in 1967, he returned with a new stage name and earned his first big break on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dangerfield's hard-luck shtick made him a TV staple in the '70s and '80s, and he starred in the slapstick screen comedies Caddyshack...
Mankoff, however, discovered that not even an oversize, 10-lb. book is big enough to hold all 68,647 cartoons. So he picked the best 2,004 and put the rest on two CDs that come with the book. What he wound up with is not only a stand-up routine for smart people who own a coffee table but a history of American culture. You can see how confused and fascinated New Yorkers were by skyscrapers in the 1930s, how threatened and angered men were by workingwomen after World War II and how uncomfortable Americans were with the growing...