Jamie Foxx

How to Spot Hollywood's Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM)

DJANGO UNCHANGED

Take in the original spaghetti western over brunch

Django Unchained Upends the Western

A history of violence

Three Locks For Best Actor Already

That's what insiders are saying--the kind of insiders who are usually right sometimes. Oscar's Best Actor locks already seem to be: Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln Duh. We knew this the second the movie was announced. Denzel Washington for Flight People are so happy he got a quality script agai ... More >>

Q&A: Soul Clap On Meeting Diddy, Wolf Lamb Initiation Rituals & Fighting For No Reason in Beantown

"Before today was yesterday and tomorrow is the future," but this is what happened in between. In a very short period of time, Boston party starters Soul Clap splashed down onto the international scene in their quantized spaceship of funk. Eli Goldstein and Charles Levine were pulled up and into the ... More >>

Splinters

There Are Only Two Nominees For Best Original Song At This Year's Oscars

A few years back the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences switched up the rules for Best Original Song, making the hurdles a track had to clear in order to get nominated a little more difficult and introducing the possibility that no songs at all would be nominated during a particular year. ( ... More >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Alex Macpherson On Pistol Annies, PJ Harvey, And Why You Should Always Trust Diddy

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, the British critic Alex Macpherson finds protest music and love songs that were worth holding on to past the end of the calendar year. Every year, I cavil about ... More >>

Ten Famous Guys Who Like Fat Chicks

Dan Weiss is the author of the blog Ask a Guy Who Likes Fat Chicks and he's profiled in this week's feature, "Guys Who Like Fat Chicks." He put together a list of ten males who appreciate larger ladies in Western mass culture because, frankly, there aren't all that many. Fat Admirers do exist, and ... More >>

The Fame Cookie: 2011 Grammy Awards Live Blog

It's the return of the most talked-about Grammy Awards live blog--a collection of quips, blips, and arguably insightful observations that dares to match the actual Grammy telecast in terms of pure spectacle and Justin Bieber mentions. Please join our hosts Tom Breihan and Ryan Dombal below, and keep ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

The Night Jane Krakowski Got Down With The Homeys

​In her fab act at Feinstein's, 30-Rock's Jane Krakowski remembers the time she was asked to present an R&B Grammy along with Jamie Foxx and Busta Rhymes. "A natural choice," she laughs. Krakowski was asked to announce the nominees by saying something like "And now, five fierce sistahs," but ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Songs From Movies: Jamie Foxx Does the Michael Mann

​Well, I guess we're not getting a disco week this year, huh? What bullshit. Instead, this week was dedicated to songs from movies, a pretty incoherent theme when you consider the idea that songs from movies almost never have anything to do with those movies. There was a weird moment during t ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Live-Blogging the Top 5 Results

I hear Lady Gaga's in the house tonight for the Cinco de Mayo installment of the results show, and hopefully singing a Frank Sinatra song. Or duetting with Harry Connick, Jr. That would be awwwwesome. 9:03pm. Group sing: the four boys sing "The Lady is a Tramp" and does that make Crystal Bowersox ... More >>

STRAND OR BUST

18 miles of books and four talented poets

Can You Name Anyone Who's Not In Valentine's Day?

​Valentine's Day--aka Love, American Style, the Movie--is one of those criss-crossing ensemble pieces starring literally everyone alive who's ever walked the earth and ended up in front of a camera. In an attempt to satisfy every possible demographic, it has young people, old people, whites, ... More >>

I Have a Great New Idea For a Show!

​It would be a variation on My Fair Lady, the classic musical based on Shaw's Pygmalion, about a street urchin who's tutored and transformed into sophistication by some old fussbudget. My show would be a reversal called My Fair Skanky.

Z-Grade Revenge Thrills in Law Abiding Citizen

American Idol Top 5: Jamie Foxx Plays Honorary Rat Pack Mentor, Adam Lambert Is Totally Gonna Win

Frank Micelotta / FOXAllison and Adam on Rat Pack night There are only five contestants left, meaning that by the time the show starts, it's almost over! Since we already know Adam Lambert is going to win, this is really all just a formality, but let's take a stroll through it together, shall we? ... More >>

American Idol Top 5 Results: Matt Giraud Penalized for Trying to Sing Like Megan Joy

Michael Becker / FOX.The final five In the totally overblown intro (sorry, that's like complaining that a cow moos), Ryan Seacrest seems to insinuate that there will be a shocker of a cast-off tonight. That can only mean it's Adam Lambert, because any of the others are expected to go at some point. ... More >>

Downey and Foxx's Disciplined Performances Almost Save The Soloist

Grammys Fawn over Coldplay and Plant/Krauss, Set Race Relations Back 20 Years

Good for you. As any self-respecting Grammy live blog will have told you by now, the highlight of last night's occasionally lively fiasco was undoubtedly the "Rap Pack" black-and-white "Swagga Like Us" blowout, ostensibly starring Jay-Z/Kanye/Wayne/T.I. but dominated by a stupendously pregnant M ... More >>

Age, Beauty Before Youth at Grammys

Despite myriad concessions to modishness and a Twitter feed, it was a Steely Dan sort of year at the Grammys as Robert Plant and Alison Krause's Raising Sand won five awards including Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year ("Please Read the Letter"), and awards in the Country and Contemporary Folk ... More >>

Ludacris Raids His Rolodex

A veteran plays up his Hollywood success, defends his goofy-rapper legacy

The CMAs: A Running Diary

Fight Them Over There

Peter Berg turns Jamie Foxx loose in Saudi Arabia; things blow up

The VMAs: A Running Diary

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Dream Works

But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it, as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model

Freaknik Goes Conscious, But Not Overly So

Undercover of the Night

Violent shoot-outs and dangerous love in Mann's visceral cop series update

The MTV Movie Awards: A Running Diary

Status Ain't Hood Does Summer Jam

Pharrell: Best Rapper Ever? (Well, No)

Rack Focus

Letters

NBC Makes Jamie Foxx Look Stupid

The New King

A floating world of soul with honey, vinegar, and machine poetics

Skillz's 05 Rap Up: Saving Rap?

NY Mirror

Yet Another VMA Running Diary

Flop Gun: Join the Navy, See the World, Battle Bitchy Robot

Inside Academy Awards Buzz!

You're Wearing His Shirt

Clothing mogul Marc Ecko on designing for 50 Cent, the Oscars, and that regular dude on the street

It's a Shame About Ray

Re-creating 70 years of a beloved pop icon's life, Taylor Hackford's gotta have a montage

Mann on Fire

Conducting a city symphony, an accomplished stylist hitches a ride on a flowchart script

Film

Fast and Folliclous

One of the rapidest guest-rappers around thinks as slow as he helps everybody else jam

End Games

End Games