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Article: Genius Times Two; Jamie Foxx's Acting and Ray Charles's Music Light Up 'Ray'
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- The Washington Post
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- October 29, 2004
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There are many reasons to take in "Ray": glorious music,
compelling story, the recent death of its subject. But the best
reason is the absolutely astounding performance of Jamie Foxx as Ray
Charles, a scion of southern apartheid, a man who, being blind and
black, spent a lifetime trying to get his. To hear Charles sing
"America the Beautiful" was to hear not so much a paean to America's
greatness as the blues of a man who grabbed and got -- but even in
the winning, never forgot why he had to fight in the first place.
Forget about Foxx's past comedy career as Weird Wanda ("I wanna
rock your world") on the TV sketch show "In Living Color." To
describe Foxx's performance here is to gush, ...