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Company: Salamander 
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Liking Jordin Sparks, American Idol’s season six winner, comes instinctively. How many 17-year-olds are as self-possessed, as big-smiling, as committed to having a good time and keeping it real? Probably none. Liking Sparks’ music has been a different story for fans anticipating her debut CD, though. Her gut-busting Idol performance of “I (Who Have Nothing)” was possibly her only prime-time goosebump generator, yet she’s seen an instant progression to diva-dom, as chronicled in reports that found her heading into the studio alongside pop/R&B heavy-hitters Bloodshy, Avant, the Underdogs, and others. Was it a little soon for the relatively green Sparks to be throwing off such big-league, beat-heavy sparks? Well, not hardly, it turns out. The ballads here–songs like “Next To You” and “Just For the Record”–reach out at times with overeager sincerity (forgivable!), but the funkier numbers–”Young and In Love” and the Prince-flecked “Shy Boy,” especially–slam home her positives. Jordin may still be a juvie, but she’s a bona fide pop star. She earns her props as convincingly here as she did on TV. –Tammy La Gorce

Atists:  Jordin Sparks
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Company: Jive  (2007-11-20)
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Based on the syndicated comic strip of Aaron MacGruder, one of only a few African American cartoonists and arguably the most successful, this animated show appeared on the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. MacGruder satirizes race relations and contemporary culture in a dry, cynical way that pulls no punches, and generates a great deal of controversy along the way. The show follows protagonist Huey, a 10-year-old revolutionary-in-training, and Riley, his 8-year-old brother and future gangsta. The boys have been moved from their home on Chicago’s South Side to the suburban “boondocks” to live with their grandfather, where they get into trouble and comment freely upon the idiosyncracies–to put it mildly–of the white people in whose culture they are now immersed. In season one, Huey and Riley debate R. Kelly, Huey directs “The Adventures of Black Jesus” for the school Christmas play, and Grandad opens up Woodcrest’s first soul-food restaurant.

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Running Time 318 Mins.

Format: DVD MOVIE

DVD:  Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Company: Sony Pictures  (2006-07-25)
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