Boyz n the Hills

Cuba Gooding, Jr. was picking up takeout for his family over Memorial Day weekend when a 20 something with a gunshot wound walked toward him and collapsed. Gooding hailed a police car and waited for an ambulance. I can't help but thinking of the great scene in Boyz n the Hood that I won't ruin for anyone, but everyone who has seen it knows what I'm talking about.

Kudos to Gooding for lending a hand, now hopefully he can get a script that doesn't suck. He had a nice run after with Jerry Maguire with As Good as it Gets, What Dreams May Come, and A Murder of Crows, but since then it's been brutal. Pearl Harbor, Rat Race, Snow Dogs, Boat Trip, Radio, this guy deserves some karma. It may arrive in the form of American Gangster, scheduled to open 11/2/2007. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Gooding, Denzel Washington, and Russell Crowe, (as well as my man the RZA) Denzel plays a crime lord who smuggles drugs in coffins of soldiers returning from Vietnam. In August, Gooding will be starring in Daddy Day Camp. Ugh.