Sunday 17 August 2008

Robert Downey Jr. Takes Inspiration From Father's Blaxploitation Flick For 'Tropic Thunder'





By today you credibly know that "Tropic Thunder" stars some of Hollywood's biggest stars � from Jack Black to Ben Stiller, from Tom Cruise to Tobey Maguire � all unforced to send up their own images for a laugh. You may as well have heard that none of them is beingness talked around with as much acclaim as Robert Downey Jr., who plays Kirk Lazarus, a multiple-Oscar winner so committed to his craft that he literally transforms into a black valet to portray a Vietnam solder in the film within the film. His performance is different, you hear, satirical and all in good fun. But you're worried, of course, because Downey isn't the first white man to play an African-American in recent film, and those portrayals don't always bend out so well.


But did you know that he's not even the number one person in his own family to take on such a role? In crafting Lazarus, Downey says he owes a lot to his father, wHO directed a blaxploitation film nearly 40 years agone called "Putney Swope," about a mordant ad administrator who ends up running the entire agency. Because Arnold Johnson, the histrion portraying Swope, had worry remembering his lines, Robert Downey Sr. dubbed his own voice over Johnson's during post-production.








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Thursday 7 August 2008

Carl Thomas

Carl Thomas   
Artist: Carl Thomas

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   Other
   



Discography:


So Much Better   
 So Much Better

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 18


My First Love   
 My First Love

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


Lets Talk About It   
 Lets Talk About It

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 16




Bad Boy/Arista recording artist Carl Thomas' major tag debut was for certain Emotional. The bombilate caused by the airplay of the not-available-to-retail single "I Wish" -- not to be





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