Thursday, October 2, 2003

OR, IT'S 'POWDER' IN REVERSE: I've seen promos for movies that made me skeptical before, but, damnit, it's been a long time since something made me as out-and-out nauseous as the ads for Cuba Gooding Jr's next flick, Radio, in which he plays the mentally challenged mascot for a white football team -- basically, Forrest Gump remade as a Magical Negro movie, only without that annoying feather. Or the politics. Or the subtlety.

In case you don't think you can write the whole movie based on its 30-second ad, click here for the casting call. This movie's got more formula than Babies 'R' Us, and will be about as predictable as a Hulk Hogan match in the mid-1980s.

And you thought he couldn't go any lower than Boat Trip this year . . .

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