Subject: Jamie Foxx

• You Know You Want It. Too Bad You Can't Have It

  February 19, 2007

• By The Time You Read This, Jennifer Aniston Could Be Dead

  February 23, 2008

• Slo-Mo Football-Movie Finales: The Top Five

  September 9, 2008

• Five Spot: Axl Rose is Not Impressed by Dr Pepper's Fun and Games

  Welcome back to Five Spot. Every week, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and list five reasons why it's either brilliant or dumb-assed. Send tips to introducingliston@gmail.com.   Back in March, Dr Pepper (easily one of our favorite doctors, right behind J., Scholls and Dre) set forth a proposition to aged rockers Guns 'N' Roses: release Chinese Democracy this year and everyone in America would get a free soda. Seemed a clear enough challenge, if not a blatant publicity stunt.

  November 28, 2008

• Turning the Screw: B L A C K I E, Dizzee Rascal, X-Clan & Bun B, Eminem, Pitbull, T.I., Common, Snoop Dogg and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: B L A C K I E, "I Write On Money" Wire To Wire Dizzee Rascal was released from custody following a road rage incident. The report says that Dizzee was in possession of "an offensive weapon." That's an odd phrase to use, "offensive weapon." Perhaps the baseball bat he was carrying was shouting a

  December 15, 2008

• Press Picks

  December 30, 1993

• Punchy Fun

  May 2, 1996

• Chart Check: Texans on Amazon.com

  [Rocks Off scrolled through the various Top Sellers lists on Amazon.com this afternoon to see which albums by Texas artists are moving, and where.] Top Sellers Overall 2. Steve Martin, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo 7. Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel 14. Buddy Holly, Memorial Collection Top 40 2. Beyonce, I Am... Sasha Fierce 8. Jamie Foxx, Intuition MP3 Downloads 5. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 30. Beyonce, "If I Were a Boy"

  February 4, 2009

• Press Picks

  February 12, 1998

• Chart Check: Texans on Billboard

  A periodic look at how Lone Star natives are faring in the national music biz...Hot 100 (singles) 10. Kelly Clarkson, "My Life Would Suck Without You" 12. Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain, "Blame It" 16. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" 21. Beyonce, "Diva" 41. Beyonce, "Halo" Billboard 200 (albums) 6. Beyonce, I Am... Sasha Fierce 9. Jamie Foxx, Intuition 87. Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 100. Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel

  March 11, 2009

• Young Mammals Chow Down on First LP Carrots

  Dynamically Yours

  February 26, 2009

• Oz the Great and Terrible

  January 22, 2009

• Paydirt!

  Oliver Stone delivers the ultimate guy movie with Any Given Sunday

  December 23, 1999

• Eastern Promises, American Pie: Beta House, The Kingdom, War

  January 3, 2008

• The Kingdom

  September 27, 2007

• Distant Early Warning: Blink-182, Clutch, Jaime Foxx, Poison the Well, Wooden Birds and More

  Blink-182: Wed., Sept. 23. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Clutch, Baroness, Lionize: Wed., July 15. House of Blues. Computer Club: Thu., June 18. Escobar. Crosby, Stills & Nash: Fri., Aug. 28. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. D. Ramirez: Fri., Aug. 14. Rich's Houston. "FallCore 2009": Sat., Oct. 10, 5 p.m. Fitzgerald's. Frank Caliendo: Sat., May 30. Verizon Wireless Theater. Jamie Foxx: Fri., July 10. Reliant Arena.

  May 19, 2009

• Wars, Penguins and Gays: Oh, My!

  The year in review

  December 22, 2005

• A Disciplined Duet

  Foxx and Downey's performances nearly save The Soloist from visual excess and shameless exploitation

  April 23, 2009

• The Essence of Soul

  Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige and more hit H-town

  June 29, 2006

• Dream Works

  But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model

  December 28, 2006

• A Masterpiece on Canvas

  December 7, 2006

• Where Do You Buy Your Hair?

  ...and other questions reporters can't ever ask

  November 30, 2006

• Never Opening Near You

  Music biopics Hollywood won't make

  November 16, 2006

• Undercover of the Night

  Violent shootouts and dangerous love collide in Mann's visceral Vice

  July 27, 2006

• He's Still Vince from tha Block

  Vince Young

  June 29, 2006

• T.I.

  King

  May 25, 2006

• Our top DVD picks for the week of January 17

  January 19, 2006

• Jamie Foxx

  Unpredictable

  January 5, 2006

• Reform School

  The College Dropout rethinks his stance on education in the year 2010

  November 24, 2005

• Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

  Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

  November 17, 2005

• Killing Time

  In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

  November 3, 2005

• Bombs and Bikinis

  Stealth aims low but hits its mark

  July 28, 2005

• Crash and Yearn

  Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

  December 23, 2004

• Messed Around

  As Ray Charles, Jamie Foxx turns an ordinary bio into an extraordinary one

  October 28, 2004

• Collateral Damaged

  When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't good

  August 5, 2004

• Sly Foxx

  He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

  December 27, 2001

• This Thing On?

  Jamie Foxx brings his Ugly Wanda shtick to town

  December 27, 2001

• Mean and Masterful

  Denzel the narc finally takes a fine swagger into the darkness of Training Day

  October 4, 2001

• Turning the Screw: Slim Thug, Bun B, H.I.S.D., The Kanye, C-Murder, Jim Jones, Hot Boyz, Jaime Foxx/Miley Cyrus, Trae and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "I'm Back," Slim Thug feat. Devin The Dude Wire To Wire Bun B spoke with The Source TV recently. And some guy rumored to have broken a bear's neck with his bare hands wrote a spot-on review of UGK's new album. Word up H.I.S.D., who made the front page of www.hiphopdx.com last week. Hide your camer

  April 20, 2009

• Idol Beat: The Top Five

  That Jamie Foxx, right? A Rennaisance man if there ever was one: the guy's a comedic genius (see In Living Color; tons of flicks), a big-screen leading man, credible action star, R&B champion - plus, as it turns out, he's a natural at mentoring American Idol hopefuls. I wouldn't have figured on him doling out advice to contestants during "Rat Pack Week," yet there he was. (I smell a Foxx-as-Sammy-Davis-Jr. in an as-yet-unconceived Rat Pack biopic, don't you?) Let's consider our Top Five from

  April 29, 2009

• Idol Beat: The Top Five Results

  Photos by Frank Micelotta/ FoxAuto Pilot: Jaime Foxx "performs" on American Idol Wednesday night.Blame it on the vodka, blame it on the Henny, blame it on whatever you wanna, but I'm going to place blame for the hiply generic feel of Jamie Foxx's new single squarely on the shoulders of everybody responsible for perpetuating the increasingly dispiriting ubiquity of AutoTune-slimed pop hits this decade: Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Akon, and most especially T-Pain. See, "Blame It" - the T-Pain-assisted

  April 30, 2009

• Idol Beat: The Top Four

  Photos by Ray Mickshaw/ FoxMan alive! Jamie Foxx mentored last week, and now guitarist-celeb Slash is in the proverbial American Idol house for "Rock and Roll Week"! Okay, sure, these people have projects and albums to promote, but these still feel like coups. Lot to address, so today I'm skipping the expository rant and going straight to my patented bullet-point breakdown: * Slash is looking rough! He's like a cross between Lenny Kravitz, Howard Stern and Bloom County asswipe Steve Dallas or so

  May 6, 2009

• Turning the Screw: Bun B, Trae & Lil Keke, Rihanna, Snoop, Eminem vs. Nick Cannon, Jay-Z, T.I., E-40, South Park Mexican and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Grey Cassette," Trae feat Bun B and Lil Keke Wire To Wire Ummm, we're not going to link to them, but should you be curious to see some pictures of Rihanna sans clothes, you presumably know how Google works. (And, wow.) All is not well in the house that Run built: Jo-Jo arrested. Snoop Dogg does not ha

  May 11, 2009

• In Honor Of Will Ferrell: The Five Biggest "Summer Blockbuster" Duds

  That thud you heard last weekend was Will Ferrell's career settling noisily back to earth. With a budget estimated at over $100 million, Land of the Lost was supposed to propagate the 2009 summer blockbuster season (handily inaugurated by the new Star Trek) and continue Ferrell's successful box-office run. Surprisingly, American audiences seem to have tired of well-meaning doofuses who run into things and holler a lot, even when you throw in a T-rex. Ferrell, however, can assuage his hurt feeli

  June 10, 2009

• Flash Drive

  June 18, 2009

• Jamie Foxx

  July 9, 2009

• Turning the Screw: All-Houston Edition with GT Garza, Trae Day, Trouble Sum, Jay'Ton, Paul Wall, Z-Ro, Letoya vs. Slim Thug, Coast, Z-Ro, Juan Gotti and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: GT Garza, "52 Pick Up" (We've listened to a bunch of GT's stuff, but this remains to be the rawest thing we have ever heard from him. He is in full beast mode.) Wire To Wire Likely because Trae Day is this week, we're feeling especially Houston-y. Thus, all of the items in this edition of Turning the S

  July 20, 2009

• Rap Vixen And Houston Radio Host Tangle To The Death

   Quick, who's Karinne Steffans?You're supposed to know that. At least, according to her you are.Steffans, massive internet research reveals, is a former model and moneymaker-shaker in videos who wrote a tell-all book about her high-flying life called Confessions of a Video Vixen. (Among the people she claimed to have had sex with: Ja Rule, Bobby Brown, Dr. Dre, Shaquille O'Neal and Usher.)She has a new book out now, the Vixen Manual, and went on the Rod Ryan show at 94.5 The Buzz to promote

  July 24, 2009

• He Said, She Said: Get Your Ass In Shape Workout Songs

  Unlike our male counterpart, we aren't seeking to purge our inner demons when we work out (and some of us - shudder - purge something else before working out anyway). Instead, we're looking for something fun, upbeat and beat-heavy. Something that makes you want to shake your ass while you're whittling it down on the stairstepper, or run with confidence next to the cute guy on the treadmills. We've got you covered, babies. Below is our playlist of the best workout songs to download to

  August 27, 2009

• Life on Mars

  September 17, 2009