Playbill

November, 2005

"Jamie Foxx is as cool as the other side of the pillow," says Michael Fleming, who spent nights hanging out in Foxx's Miami digs quizzing him for the Playboy Interview. Foxx, who won last year's Academy Award for best actor for his work in Ray, is in the midst of another professional boom, the latest phase in one of the most unlikely--and interesting--careers in Hollywood. "He is absolutely fun to be around," Fleming reports, "and he doesn't have the swelled head one mig...