* In an interview with CBS This Morning“s Charlie Rose, Chris Rock talks about the impetus behind his upcoming movie, Top Five, and how fame has different implications depending on whether one is black or white: “I wanted to do a movie about black fame,”; Rock explains. “Being famous as a black guy is a little different than being famous as a white guy. Tom Hanks is an amazing actor, but Denzel Washington is a god to his people. Denzel Washington has a responsibility to his people that Tom Cruise, Liam Neeson, all these guys don’t have… No one says ‘Hey Tom Cruise! Stay white! Don’t forget your whitness! Come back and visit white people! What-chu doin’ for white people, Tom Cruise?!’ [Black people] want to know that Denzel loves his people. That’s he doing stuff for his people. They feel his highs and lows more than white people. If Tom Hanks does a bad movie, there’s gonna be another good movie by somebody white next week. If Denzel does a bad movie, I might not see a good black movie for a year.”; [Deadline]
* Looks like there was nothing dumb about re-teaming Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels 20 years later for Dumb and Dumber To, which edged out Big Hero 6 to become the weekend’s box-office champion with a weekend take of just over $38 million. [Forbes]
