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WILD `KINGDOM'; Jamie Foxx hunts down terrorists in new thriller.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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The Boston Herald
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September 27, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Boston Herald. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: STEPHEN SCHAEFER
Jamie Foxx is looking pretty serious these days, for a guy once exclusively considered a comedian.
In his latest film, "The Kingdom," opening Friday, Foxx stars as Ronald Fleury, leader of an FBI unit sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate a terrorist attack. The part comes on the heels of weighty roles in "Dreamgirls," "Miami Vice," "Jarhead" and "Ray," for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor.
"Sometimes it pulls at your comedic soul," said the actor, who started as a stand-up comic and appeared on his own TV comedy series on the WB, "because you'll watch Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy and you just go, `Man!' But every ...
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