cool, I think Cheadle will upgrade this character......Iron Man was A LOT of fun - looking forward to more.

Is there some kind of humor I am missing in the title of this post? They are both really talented, but they look nothing alike. They are just the same ethnicity. Is that an attempt to poke fun at people that think all black people look alike maybe?

I'm pretty sure the title was tongue-in-cheek.

Funny story:

One of our Element guys, who is black, was in the hospital all last week b/c of congestive heart failure. I spent quite a bit of time with him, and I was in there when a nurse was trying to figure out what he wanted to eat (b/c it must be low sodium, etc.)
She finally said she'd bring him a fruit plate.

As she's walking out, he stops her and says, "oh, if you're bringing a fruit plate, I don't eat bananas."

You should have seen that nurse's face. Now, you should know, that he is a huge cut-up and had been giving the nurses a hard time about all kinds of things since he'd been there. So I could see the wheels turning in her mind, like: is he joking? what do I make of this?

And then he goes, "I'm allergic." (which he is)

"Oh," she says. "Okay." Then she starts to leave.

He stops her again. "Oh! Also."

"Yes," she says.

"No watermelon either."

The look on her face was priceless. And I could see him starting to snicker.

But he is actually allergic to both bananas and watermelon, so it's both true and a fun thing to mess with white people about.

(And now I will be called a racist for telling that story. :-)

It seemed pretty clear to me that it was a tongue-in-cheek comment on Hollywood (if there's racism here, it would belong to the studio execs; how it would be racist to comment on that, I'm not sure), so the reaction strikes me as odd.

On a more important matter: I'm with Jared on Cheadle. I really thought he should have gotten the Oscar for Hotel Rwanda--not only was he that good, but since he seemed to have been established in the mind of the studios as a supporting actor, I cynically didn't believe he'd be likely to get another shot at an Oscar-worthy leading role. Granted, this is another supporting role, but by its nature, it might indicate otherwise. I hope so.

Crossbow, why are you always humorless? Why do you always have a chip on your shoulder over here? Why do you always seem to take exception to everything?

I'm cool if you think that title makes me a racist. I don't care.

If you stop commenting here, we'd probably both be better off.
Peace

blek.......I hate mayonnaise, however, you nailed me on the other two..........one thought on Cheadle in Iron Man - the article said the character would have an "expanded role"......Cheadle and Downey Jr. are both prone to scene stealing (in a good way) - do we have the makings of a poor man's "De Niro and Pacino in Heat" thing possibly here?

Exactly! It' WASN'T Denzel playing that role. It was me! But he got all the money! It ain't right. I got scammed! Incidently, did you know that that role was first offered to Cheadle, but he turned it down?
Ok, I made that part up.

If Downey can stay clean, anyway.

Yeah, in the cartoons I watched as a kid, War Machine's voice was almost in James Earl Jones territory. Agreed that there's nothing wrong with Howard, but it was kind of an adjustment for me.

While I initially scratched my head at the title of the post, I think it'd be a good idea to give someone like Jared the benefit of the doubt, i.e. ask a question like "What did you mean by that?" before pulling out the big guns and shouting racism. Especially when his take was that Cheadle's presence makes Iron Man "awesomer." He's never given me any reason to believe he's racist, you know? Just my two cents.