Cuba Gooding Jr. wants his quan back.
By Burbanked on Feb 20, 2006 in Celebrities, Movies, The Oscars | 1,067 views |
An excellent article from The New York Times profiling Cuba Gooding Jr. (free registration required) and the less-than-stellar choices he’s made since the career- and Oscar-winning-highs of Boyz N the Hood and Jerry Maguire gave way to such craptastic work like Rat Race and Boat Trip. It’s refreshing to see a former A-lister take ownership of career missteps with this kind of humility:
“…I thought people wanted me to make them laugh. But I was wrong on so many levels. I try to take all my energy and bravado and take it into comedy, and that’s when I’m terrible. And it was also for the money. …”
It’d be great if Gooding’s upcoming (smaller, independent, humble) movies Dirty and Shadowboxer could return some of that credibility that he’s spent almost 10 years blowing. Are you paying attention, Kevin Spacey? Halle? Gwyneth?
My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (
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because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (
Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun. 
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