Best Of Ray Stevens, The - Ray Stevens

Advantages: Superb performance by Jamie Foxx
Disadvantages: Long and dull at times

...of the film. The rest is a rather disjointed mess of one highlight in Ray's life after another. I appreciate that director Taylor Hackford was trying to tell the story of Ray's life as accurately as possible. The problem is that watching him move from one record company to another, from one mistress to another, playing in one club after another, interspersed with shots of him shooting up and occasionally getting arrested just doesn't make for inspiring watching. The best parts, for me, were those that he spent with his family and when we see him struggling with his drug problem - unfortunately, these parts aren't long enough to fill out the film. By the time the first hour had gone by, I was bored and seriously considered switching off. I eventually did, and then came back to it the next day. Thankfully, the second hour or so does pick up, but I... Read review

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Advantages: beautiful new country ballads
Disadvantages: Some may like there albums a lot more pop

...Style: Country Approach: Mainstream Released: 03/11/1997 Floyd Collin Wray aka Colin Raye, is an American country singer from Arkansas. He released his first album called "All I Can Be" back in 1991. After five prior album releases, Colin gives us his first greatest hits album. The album "Direct Hits" contains four previously unreleased tracks as well as eleven top five country hits, three of these reaching number one, with fourteen tracks on the album altogether. Song Listing 1. "Little Rock" #2 2. "I Think About You" #3 3. "Not That Different" #3 4. "That's My Story" #6 5."If I Were You" #4 6."One Boy, One Girl" #2 7."In This Life" #1 8. "My Kind of Girl" #1 9. "That Was a River" #4 10. "What the Heart Wants" #2 11. "The Gift" 12. "Open Arms" 13. "Little Red Rodeo" #3 14. "Love, Me" #1 * Tracks 10... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant music
Disadvantages: None

...Charles jamming together. This is basically the moulding of Jamie Foxx into Ray Charles and you get to see how he learns to imitate the voice and movements. Plus quite amazingly, they used prosthetics on Jamie's eyes to make them closed and blind. Due to this he had to keep them on for about 14 hours a day and basically lived the role. You also get an interview with Ray Charles Jr and Quincy Jones. There is a trailer for the Soundtrack to the film, which features many of Ray Charles's best known hits. Then there is a feature called "Ray Remembered", this is a tribute to Ray Charles from many famous singers. Sadly, Ray Charles passed away in June 2004 aged 73. The next feature "A look inside Ray" is basically the making of the film, with loads of interviews and scenes from the movie. Interesting point is that this film took 15 years to... Read review

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