Foxx is cinema's twenty-first century man

September 14, 2007 By the age of 39, the newest recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has racked up not just commercial but critical success in every arena of entertainment. He's been a brilliant standup comic, an Oscar-winning actor, a heralded television star and a R&B singer with a multiplatinum-selling album. In a way, Jamie's rise is almost the classic version of the African-American entertainer who has to have so many oars in the water he's like a one-man sculling team, notes film and cultural critic Elvis Mitchell, who currently hosts KCRW-FM's radio program The Treatment.

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