From Living Color to Living with Oscar
by Anthony Robinson
Jamie Foxx’s ascension to the Academy Award for Best Actor seemingly came out of nowhere. Remember, Foxx first caught our attention on Keenan Ivory Wayan’s “In Living Color” in the early 1990’s. Who knew watching Foxx dress in “drag” to play “Wanda” would lead to an Oscar a little over a decade later? It is still praiseworthy but a little less unique when I remembered Tom Hanks started his career in similar fashion. What Generation X person could forget Hanks in the sitcom “Bosom Buddies?”
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Jamie Foxx’s ascension to the Academy Award for Best Actor seemingly came out of nowhere. Remember, Foxx first caught our attention on Keenan Ivory Wayan’s “In Living Color” in the early 1990’s. Who knew watching Foxx dress in “drag” to play “Wanda” would lead to an Oscar a little over a decade later? It is still praiseworthy but a little less unique when I remembered Tom Hanks started his career in similar fashion. What Generation X person could forget Hanks in the sitcom “Bosom Buddies?”
--->read the entire article
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