Jamie Foxx

TELEVISION 1.Rose Bowl, ABC 2.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS 3.Rose Bowl Pregame, ABC 4.Desperate Housewives, ABC 5.NFL Playoff: Jacksonville vs. New England, ABC FILMS 1.Hostel, Lions Gate 2.The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Disney 3. King Kong, Universal 4. Fun With Dick and Jane, Columbia 5. Cheaper by the Dozen 2, 20th Century Fox SINGLES 1.Laffy Taffy, D4L 2.Run It!, Chris Brown featuring Juelz Santana 3.Photograph, Nickelback 4.Gold Digger, Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx 5.Grillz, Nelly (featuring Paul Wall, Ali and Gipp)

Jarhead's title is slang for Marine. Anthony Swofford, or "Swoff" (Jake Gyllenhaal), tells us in the voiceover that it may derive from the "tight, high" Corps haircut and may mean that if you lift the lid of hair you find an empty jar. In this movie, that's a certainty. Jarhead might as well have been called Jughead. It's about what happens to normally messed-up American boys if you egg them on toward a testosterone-fueled insanity that only brutality can control. The setting is the first Gulf War. In that statement lies part of the problem.

The 77th annual Academy Awards are about actors. Jamie Foxx's Ray Charles has aroused an outpouring of affection -- including host Chris Rock's proclamation that if Foxx doesn't win the comedian's going to steal a statue and give him one himself. Clint Eastwood has cemented his evolution from gun-toting enforcer to Grand Old Man by producing, directing and acting the boxing-ring sage in Million Dollar Baby. Johnny Depp has continued his march into the ranks of Hollywood legends with his performance in Finding Neverland.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Oscar nominations won't be announced until Tuesday, but Chris Rock, the host of next month's Academy Awards ceremony, has already decided who one of the evening's big winners should be: Jamie Foxx, the star of the biopic Ray. "I am rooting for Jamie, and if he doesn't win, I'm going to talk about it on the show," Rock promised, a sly grin tiptoeing across his face. And if Foxx comes up empty? "I'll take an Oscar from one of the sound or light people that win and give it to him," Rock said.

Jamie Foxx is so mesmerizing as Ray Charles, so totally at ease inside the skin of perhaps America's greatest musical genius, at least of the last half of the 20th century, it's a shame his performance isn't surrounded by a better film. For outside of Foxx's performance, Ray is strictly by-the-numbers stuff, a highlight reel of Ray Charles' life that hits the highs and the lows, but offers little insight into the man, his talent or his place in music history. Director Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman)

His eyes shut tight, his head crooked to one side, Jamie Foxx slows down his voice, sweetens it up a tad, and slides effortlessly into a dead-on imitation of Ray Charles, complete with the blues-rock great's trademark stutter, exaggerated head roll and silkily seductive cadences. "Eh, eh, you know, I did this thing," he says, haltingly, with a sly grin, and suddenly there's another person in the room, a blind man who revolutionized American music, who was once called by no less an authority than Frank Sinatra: "the only genius in our business."

She's got it made on the home front, with two kids and a handsome husband who's one of the most beloved movie stars on the planet. She's got it made professionally, having just opened in a big summer movie alongside Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. And she's got it made when it comes to ambition, having reached a point in her career that allows her to be selective when considering future roles. Certainly, this is a good time to be Jada Pinkett Smith. "Oh, it's a great time to be Jada right now," the 32-year-old actress says.

They say that breaking up is hard to do. Now we know that it's true. Breakin' All the Rules, a comedy about breaking up, proves it. A charming cast, engaging setting and clever conceit for a story aren't enough to make Rules break the run of unfunny romantic comedies this spring. It's a movie with very good-looking people trying to find something funny to say or do. And it's more proof that Jamie Foxx is mellowing into somebody who may yet become a good dramatic actor but is no longer an interesting comic one. Foxx plays Quincy Watson, a magazine editor whose girlfriend dumps him just as he is reassigned to the task of finding ways to lay off 15 percent of his colleagues.