Underpinning Soul Men's high-energy hilarity is an unmistakable theme of mortality — a strange coincidence following the unexpected deaths of two costars, Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes.
Samuel L. Jackson, who plays an aging member of a former soul group alongside Mac, says the theme leaves him solemn and optimistic.
"I'll be 60 in December, so, I look at that, and I look in the mirror, and I still don't look like somebody I thought would look like this at 60," he told TVGuide.com "So, I think about it."
In Soul Men, which opened Friday, Jackson's and Mac's characters struggle to reckon with their elder years as they try to revive their brief stardom decades after their one-hit-wonder trio split up. Their cross-country road trip is punctuated by foot-tapping song and dance performances, slapstick-driven antics, encounters with the past and even a little legal trouble.
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Director Malcolm Lee is planning to re-edit his movie Soul Men in an effort to honor the flicks late stars Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes The film features Mac and Samuel L Jackson as two estranged soul singers who reunite to honor their deceased band leader The title comes from the famous hit Soul Man that Hayes wrote with David Porter No release date changes have been announced and Lee maintains that he wont be vastly changing the movie Rather hes only interested in creating a fitting tributeThis isnt like Dark Knight where Heath Ledger died while editing was in its infancy Lee told USA Today Most of our editing is done Well go back and see if there is anything we can do better But Mac left us with an indelible performance I think I got him at the top of his gameMac died Saturday from complications relating to pneumonia and Hayes died the following after collapsing at his Tennessee home Hayes cause of death has been identified as a stroke related to chro
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The cause of Isaac Hayes' death on Sunday was a stroke associated with chronic hypertension, according to a statement released by Shelby County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Schular. Hayes' wife found him Sunday lying unresponsive near a treadmill at his Tennessee home, and he was pronounced dead at a Memphis hospital. No autopsy is scheduled. Hayes was 65, and leaves behind him a legacy of rock, soul and even a South Park character. — Anna DimondMore on Isaac Hayes:• Isaac Hayes, Legendary Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 65• Isaac Hayes: Appreciating "Black Moses"• Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes Worked on Final Project Together
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Isaac Hayes, best known for his Academy Award-winning theme from Shaft and his voice work for the character Chef on South Park, died Sunday at the age of 65. The soul singer was found unresponsive in his home and was later pronounced dead at a Memphis hospital. The cause of death has yet to be determined. Watch Hayes’ unforgettable "Theme from Shaft" that laid the groundwork for disco in the early ‘70s.
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People who only associate Isaac Hayes with Chef, the smooth-talking, sweet-love-making, roly-poly cafeteria cook from South Park, may not understand that the Memphis songwriter, producer, musician and performer who came to fame in the 1970s was the very embodiment of the once-popular phrase "black is beautiful."Hayes was monumental. With his instantly recognizable bald head, dark beard and glasses and masculine physique, he appeared as resplendent and exotic as a genie escaped from a bottle. But this son of Tennessee sharecroppers never really "escaped." Like another famous and flamboyant Memphis resident, Elvis Presley, he never cut himself off from his Southern home base or forgot his roots in rural poverty. Elvis, of course, was the King. Hayes was known as "Black Moses." With its origin in the book of Exodus, the name Moses suggested Hayes was a liberator as well as an entertainer — a very glamorous liberator. (If Hayes had come across a golden calf, he probably would have ...
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