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.

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!

We spoke with Robert Downey Jr. on Thursday about his new film The Soloist (more on that coming soon) and he told us that Iron Man 2 begins shooting today.

Good luck on your first day back to set, everyone.

Make it awesome!

—Sasha Perl-Raver