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Article: Jamie Foxx: A Star Turns; The Musician and Comic Takes Off In Another Direction
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 6, 2004
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They have Jamie Foxx staying at the Beverly Hills Hotel, the pink
palace up on Sunset Boulevard. But not in a room. He's bigger than a
room now.
Foxx is out back, in one of the bungalows. The setup smells like
studio money. Model types slumming as publicists, hovering. Miniature
Japanese vegetables arranged on a wooden tray, uneaten. Outside on
the perfect lawn, the gardeners are murmuring in Spanish. Apparently
they have found a weed. They're working on it like surgeons, excising
it with a pair of tweezers.
This is a long haul from Terrell, Tex., where Foxx was raised by
his grandmother, the original church lady, whose warm loving arms