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Article: Cuba Gooding Jr.: from welfare to fame. (actor)(Interview)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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Right up there with Clark Gable's legendary line, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," from Gone With The Wind and Marlon Brando's, "Make him an offer he can't refuse," from The Godfather is Cuba Gooding Jr.'s now legendary line, "Show me the money," from the hit film Jerry Maguire.
It never occurred to Gooding, 29, that any specific line from the movie, in which he played an aging and moody pro football player, would last and last. Every bit as surprising as that line's durability has been the way life has changed for him since he won the best supporting actor Oscar and became the sixth Black actor to win an Academy Award. "Life has definitely changed. ...