“Lava Tacos were a bad choice.”

Gerard Butler took a break from awful chick flicks (I mean really awful) to play against type as a revenge-seeking, car-bombing madman in Law Abiding Citizen.  His wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, but the D.A. (Jamie Foxx) accepts a plea bargain that sets one of the killers free.  So Butler’s character does what any of us would do if we found out Jamie Foxx is going to represent our case in a court of law: start killraging, Death Wish style.

Directed by Gary Gray (Friday, The Negotiator, The Italian Job) and written by Kurt Wimmer (The Thomas Crown Affair, Equilibrium, The Recruit).

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(You might not have to keep chugging water all night if you didn’t wear a wool-lined overcoat indoors, genius)

Let’s get one thing clear, I’m reporting this because I admire the balls it takes to print it, not because it’s the least bit true.  That said, Jamie Foxx is reportedly a “potential contender” for the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s Sinatra.  You know, the biopic about ‘Old Blue Eyes.’

Foxx, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 film Ray, reportedly considered to be “perfect” for the role. If he is chosen for the part, it will be one of the most prominent examples of “colour-blind” casting in Hollywood history.

Also in the running are George Clooney, Leonardo di Caprio, Harry Connick Jnr and Justin Timberlake. [And anyone else whose name is a popular search term! -Ed.]

An unnamed source [Fibby McLiemouth, perhaps?] told the Daily Express: “Cool is colour-blind. Jamie would seem to be born to the role [...in opposite land.]. Magnificent singing voice, totally convincing acting ability, like Frank himself, born the wrong side of the tracks, rags to riches, makes it big against the odds, has his brushes with authority. The guy’s a gift.” [Telegraph]

Another similarity is that Jamie Foxx is often called ‘Old Brown Eye’ (because he’s an asshole, you see).  But yeah, they should definitely make Sinatra a black guy.  Italians are notoriously good sports about this kind of stuff.

On his Sirius radio show recently, Jamie Foxx talked about how awesomely-deep actor Terrence Howard had supposedly dissed Foxx’s music career.  Surrounded by his yes-men, Foxx then proceeded to rip on Howard for four minutes, saying Howard’s album “went plastic,” and telling this story:

“I know one thing, he’s really about his music.  ‘Cause we was at a club at the W one time when we were shooting Ray, and 50 was out.  You know, “In the Club”?  And Terrence had his guitar – and the song was playin, and he had his guitar out in the club. And the song was playing and he was trying to serenade… And I’m like, ‘Dude… We in the club!’”

Terrence is a really cool cat and I’m sure he’s above petty stuff like this. Besides, man, deep down inside, we’re all made up of the same molecules.  The atoms in you – they jump around, and sometimes they’re part of me and sometimes they’re part of the trees, or the wind, or a go-cart.  The particles dance, man.  they dance to the bongo drums of the universe.   They love freely.  And that’s what you and I should do, because we’re all part of the same energy force, man.  And if you came down to the poetry slam this Friday, I think you’d really dig it.

“Cat Flushing a Toilet” is the new “Hamster on a Piano“.  Thanks to Matt at WG for finding that one.

Chris “Cap’n Kirk” Pine wants to play Murdock in the A-Team movie. I’m still planning to play Spurcock in the Straight to the A-Team movie. [ScreenJunkies]

We Didn’t Start the Flame War: one of the funniest CollegeHumor vids I’ve seen.  [CollegeHumor]

Levi Johnston’s tax preparation doodles.  It’s funny because he swears. [HolyTaco]

Quentin Tarantino will be on American Idol.  Kind of non-news since this isn’t the first time, but still worth pointing out.  [ThePlaylist]

Bad ideas in Tax Write Offs. Hey, screw you, Poindexter, these anal beads are a work expense. [Atom]

A Chat With Ron Perlman.  Number one question: “Wow. So, uh, that’s your face, huh?” [BullzEye]

Celebrities who’ve been homeless.  Busey surprisingly isn’t on there.  Though he learned some of his best rants from hoboes, he’s never been one. [MeettheFamous]

Jamie Foxx slams Miley Cyrus.  Hey, remember when we gave that guy an Oscar?  That was funny. [DailyFill]

And in case you missed it this morning, I thought the story about When LARPing Goes Wrong was pretty awesome.

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After the jump is Jamie Foxx’s new music video for “Blame It (On The Alcohol),” which is basically the most generic (club song ever), but the video is (completely insane).  It has cameos by Quincy Jones, Sam Jackson, Forrest Whitaker, *cough* Bill Bellamy, not to mention Ron Howard and Jake Gyllenhaal, both getting that appearance on BET their whole careers have been leading up to.  Oh yeah, and did I mention the random shot of a dude in a panda suit?  I think that’s Clint Howard in there, Ron usually makes him cover his face at parties.  In related news, this officially marks Jamie Foxx’s complete transformation into Willie Beamen, his character from Any Given Sunday.

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