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Jack Black: High Fidelity
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(Brooklyn, NY January 30th, 2007) Detroit emcee and producer Black Milk will release his highly anticipated album Popular Demand on Fat Beats Records on March 13th. Following the creative vacuum left by the passing of J Dilla and Proof, the Motor City has been awaiting a new champion of the city's vibrant hip-hop scene. Popular Demand is Black Milk's statement that proves why Detroit is a relevant and vital voice in hip-hop culture.
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After a cameo as a performance art hipster in the John C Reilly short Frank's Book, Black moved on to another comedy, the Farrelly brothers' Shallow Hal. Here he's told by his dying father to only ever date beautiful girls and ... cannot find true love till he's hypnotised by a self-help guru into seeing the beauty within. Thus he falls for a 300-pounder who, to him, looks like Gwyneth Paltrow. They have a beautiful romance, and a fairly hilarious one for those who can see the truth, but soon Jack must face the weighty facts of the matter. After High Fidelity, it was Black's second hit in consecutive years, it was also the most-watched pay-per-view movie of 2002 - he was well on his way.
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Mos Def and Talib Kweli first teamed up in 1998 as the critically acclaimed Black Star, and from there, both artists embarked on solo careers that continue to flourish. Kweli's Right About Now, his highly anticipated follow-up album to The Beautiful Struggle, will be released in late November under the Blacksmith Music Corp label and Mos' most recent album, The New Danger, received a Grammy(R) nomination. Beyond his hip-hop talents, Mos has broadened his career in television, film and stage as host, music supervisor and co-executive producer for the HBO series Def Poetry, as a frequent guest on Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show" and with his Broadway debut in 2002 in the Tony nominated, Pulitzer Prize winning Topdog/Underdog. In 2004, Mos Def starred in the critically acclaimed HBO movie Something the Lord Made, for which he received nominations for an Emmy, a Golden Globe Award, an NAACP Award and a Golden Satellite Award. His big screen roles include those in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and The Italian Job, both recently released on UMDTM (Universal Media Disc) for PSP.
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Aside from beginning what would be a long cinematic relationship with Robbins, Bob Roberts ... saw Black credited for the first time alongside Robbins' theatrically like-minded buddy John Cusack. Eight years later, the three would join up again for Black's breakthrough movie, High Fidelity. First though, there was experience to build and Jack went looking everywhere. Over the next four years, he would take what TV work he could find, appearing in The Golden Palace (the follow-up to The Golden Girls), the weepy soap opera Life Goes On, Northern Exposure, Monty (starring Henry Winkler and a pre-Friends David Schwimmer), comedienne Margaret Cho's All-American Girl, Pride And Joy (a mild sit-com featuring John Cusack's cohort Jeremy Piven), The X-Files, Touched By An Angel and David E. Kelley's smalltown soap Picket Fences.
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Black recently completed production on Peter Jackson's "King Kong." Feature film credits include his Golden Globe Award-nominated performance in "School of Rock," "Shallow Hal," and "High Fidelity," and, most recently, in the animated film "Shark Tale."
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Black performed a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On" in the last sequence of High Fidelity. He lent his musical abilities to the Queens of the Stone Age song "Burn the Witch" with rhythmic stomps and claps, some performed with his eyes closed.
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