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Article: Electric performance; What'd Ray say? He said Jamie Foxx "has got it!"
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- Pacific Sun
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- November 10, 2004
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Jamie Foxx is a fox. With his square jaw, chocolate skin and piano key smile that is the brightest since Tom Cruise's - with whom Foxx worked in this summer's most entertaining film, Collateral - Foxx has long been headed for leading man stardom. Best known as a stand-up comic and television star - In Living Color and The Jamie Foxx Show-he burst into the dramatic film ranks with supporting roles in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday and Michael Mann's Ali.
Neither film did that well at the BO, but those A-list directors spoke so highly of Foxx's talents that it was just a matter of time before he got the lead in a major motion picture. Taylor Hackford's Ray, a biopic about Ray Charles, the ...