Tropic Thunder and Rain

I’ve had a few conversations the last few weeks about the movie Tropic Thunder. Truth be told I had no idea that it would do as well at the box office as it has.

Box office numbers aside the issues have been the use of the word retard in the movie and the “blackface” acting of Robert Downey Jr.
My son and I went to preview the movie a few days before the actually release.
I personally had no problem with it and my son laughed throughout so I am assuming he had no problem with it either.

The friends I talked to had a problem with Downey playing a black man when obviously he is clearly white as they come.
I can take a joke with the best of them, and it wasn’t like Downey played the part spewing the N-word throughout the movie.
In fact I don’t remember him saying it at all...... His playing of a black man is one of the story lines of the film.

Critics are slamming the movie but how can you not see or understand tongue in cheek comedy, when most of the other cast (Ben Stiller and Jack Black) are masters at it….

Was Robert Downey’s part a little hambone and step and fetch it?… Yes it was, but I’m smart enough to know a goofy comedy when I see it.

RIP...... Bernie Mac

Last weekend, we were hit hard by the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes. I have been trying all week to find a way to write this, but honestly I am still numb by both of these deaths.

Remember how Dave Chappelle did the Charlie Murphy’s true hollywood stories? Well I’m sort of like Charlie because I have true stories about everyone. I am not going to go into details about Mac, but I will say that the first time I met him he cursed me out from A-Z…..
I won’t say why, but everytime I saw him after that he remembered cursing me out and we laughed about it....

Mac was a young 50 years old, and when my blackberry went off on Saturday morning, I said to myself that this has to be wrong….
I had just talked to someone a few days earlier and they said he was still in the hospital but getting better……

It is so ironic that Mac was last seen on the big screen in 2007 in the blockbuster hit Transformers, and Saturday night when I got home it was on HBO.

Mac started doing stand up in Chicago, and his performance on HBO's Def Comedy Jam thrust him into the spotlight. It also opened up doors for him to score minor roles in Friday, Booty Call, How to be a Player, and got him a talk show on HBO called Midnight Mac.

Being one of the original Kings of Comedy, he was also one of the few African American comedic actors to be able to break out of the traditional "black comedy" genre having roles in Ocean's Eleven, being Bosley in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and co-starring in Guess Who with Ashton Kutcher. Plus in 2004 having his first starring role as Mr. 3000.

Mac’s last completed film was Soul Men, which will also star Isaac Hayes along with Samuel L. Jackson. It is scheduled to be released on November 14, and the story is of two estranged soul-singing legends who agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.

His voice will also be featured in the animated Madagascar II movie which will be out next year.

The world just got a little less funny... RIP - Bernie Mac

Fair Eastside High..... Sorry Mr. Clark!!!

I have always been a fan of 71-year old Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman.

I mean ALWAYS…

When I was much much much younger I remember him being on The Electric Company TV show….

Am I the only one who remembers Easy Reader?

He has been in too many movies to name but who can forget Morgan as Joe Clark in Lean On Me? He plays “God” in Hollywood movies Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty, plus he is also Batman’s right hand man.

Morgan was Driving miss Daisy this week and got in a pretty bad accident. He suffered a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder damage. He had to have surgery to repair the damage. The woman in the car was not his wife, but a friend of hers…

Morgan’s wife of 24 years, Myrna, has long suspected her husband of carrying on with her friend and now the truth comes out with this accident. The marriage has been rocky for awhile, and now they’re headed for divorce…… This has soap opera written all over it!!!!

Morgan’s family members have been left stunned by the recent events. While they’re happy he survived the car accident, they can’t believe how he has humiliated his long suffering wife.

This Just Ain't Right

Whitney Houston and Ray J…….

Every time I see these two it makes my stomach hurt…

This shows that it is possible to go from bad to worse.

Queen Whitney at one time ruled the music charts. Countless songs and albums, movies like The Bodyguard, and Waiting to Exhale then who could forget her staring role in the reality show Being Bobby Brown?

As I watched that show I just knew it was the beginning of the end.

Well I will be the first to admit when I am wrong, and I was. Whitney has cleaned up with the help of music God Clive Davis, divorced Bobby and is set to release a new album within the next year. So with all the positive momentum how the hell does Ray J fit in the mix?

Well this week various cameras caught Whitney and Ray-J exiting Villa nightclub in Hollywood, climbing into a car and kissing. (Wait.. I just threw up in my mouth)

I am hearing that this is causing a few alarms to go off. Friends of Whitney feels she should be devoting her time to her unfinished album and her teenage daughter….. Ray J has just signed a deal for a new reality show, and they feel he is using her to get ratings….. You Think???