Kudos to Robert Downey Jr. The actor was nominated this morning for a "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar for his hysterical (and oh-so-politically-incorrect) blackface routine in last year's Vietnam War parody, Tropic Thunder.
Downey's film advice to Ben Stiller that he "never go full retard" when depicting the mentally challenged still makes my ribs ache.
But for me, the movie was worth its price of admission early on when actor Brandon Jackson (playing a rapper obviously
The Singer: Hailing from Atlanta, Gladys Knight fronted her brother and two cousins in the Pips from 1953 to the late '80s, though the best-known incarnation of the Pips recorded between 1967 and 1975. The quartet recorded for Motown in the '60s but found greater fame on the Buddha label, which released "Midnight Train to Georgia" in 1973.
The Song: "Midnight Train" is a little more gritty and Stax-y than most slow jams we've featured here, but the soul and sentiment comes through. When Gla
