Jamie Foxx

F. Gary Gray is the Manny Pacquiao of filmmaking. Small and spry, just when you think you’ve got him figured out, he cold cocks you with a total knockout. The man who was able to make Mini Coopers bad ass in The Italian Job is back with Law Abiding Citizen, a thriller that is almost entirely contained yet stunningly visceral. With a nod to Silence of the Lambs, Gray continues his oeuvre of creating brilliantly winning yet decidedly corrupt heroes.

There are a veritable Rat Pack of stars lining up to play Frank Sinatra in an upcoming biopic of the singer and actor.

Martin Scorsese is directing the film and is in need of an actor to play young Sinatra. The shortlist of actors being considered includes such Hollywood heavyweights such as Johnny Depp, James Franco, Jake Gyllenhaal, Justin Timberlake, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Bublé and Jon Hamm, and Leonardo DiCaprio.

In a bit of a surprise bit of casting new, Jamie Foxx is also apparently in the running.

Getting down to business, the Idols are split into two groups with Matt Giraud and Kris Allen on one side of the stage, Allison Iraheta and Danny Gokey on the other.

Ryan Seacrest asked Adam Lambert which side of the stage he thought he belonged on. Although he hemmed and hawed for a moment, Adam chose Allison and Danny, thinking they were the better performers last night.

After letting him join them, Ryan announced he was in the wrong group and needed to join Kris and Matt to complete this week’s bottom three.

BURN!

Singing standards made iconic by the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin, Danny, Allison, Matt, Adam and Kris, the American Idol Top Five, took the stage last night.

Since all the men involved in the Rat Pack are now, sadly, dead, AI busted out Jamie Foxx as their replacement.

Someone pulled some major strings to get that big ol’ plug for The Soloist.

Robert Downey Jr. can do no wrong.

That’s what he proves in The Soloist, a film that would profoundly suffer from his absence.

Based on LA Times reporter Steve Lopez’s articles and subsequent book of the same name, The Soloist is about Lopez’s initial fascination and subsequent friendship with a homeless, schizophrenic Julliard trained cellist, played by Jamie Foxx.

Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx star in The Soloist, the film adaptation of Los Angeles Times reporter Steve Lopez’s memoir about his friendship with Nathaniel Ayers, a music prodigy who went from studying the cello at Julliard to being homeless and playing for pigeons and buses on the streets of LA.

On The Bonnie Hunt Show today, Billy Ray Cyrus responded to Jamie Foxx’s out of line comments and subsequent half-assed apology to his daughter, Miley. 

On his never-before-heard-of Sirius radio show, The Foxxhole, Jamie, 41 and father to a 14-year-old girl, said the16-year-old Hannah Montana star needed to, “Make a sex tape…get a gum transplant…and do some heroin.”

Foxx then turned around and told Jay Leno, “I didn’t mean it maliciously. You know I’m a comedian.”

Jamie Foxx, you know what they say about people in glass houses, right?

Over the weekend, Foxx went off on Miley Cyrus on his weekly radio show The Foxxhole.

You know, that radio show no one listened to or had even heard of until now.

He said the Hannah Montana star needed to “Make a sex tape and grow up,” that she needed a gum transplant and finally advised her to “Do some heroin... get some crack in your pipe.”

Nice.

The girl is 16!

She may not have sang live at the Super Bowl in 1991, but Whitney Houston did take to the stage last night at a pre-Grammy party honoring Clive Davis. And apparently she rocked it.

She's already announced that she's not going back to ex-husband and life-long bad decision Bobby Brown, and last night's performance is apparently the next step in the singer's comeback.