Golden Opportunity

(From The Hartford Courant)

CHRIS ROCK told an interviewer recently that hosting the OSCARS has been a boon to his career.

"My phone has never rung so much as since the Oscars," he told NEWSDAY. "I'm getting great offers, real offers from real directors to do real movies."

Rock will appear next in THE LONGEST YARD, supporting ADAM SANDLER, in what he calls "a MORGAN FREEMAN part" -- "Morgan Freeman has his own genre of part. He's always kind of the second fiddle, but he always knows more than the lead person."

He told NEWSDAY that some of his comedy translates to other countries and some doesn't -- "When you're doing stand-up, political stuff is different everywhere. Men and women? Same all over the world. It's amazing. All over the world. Men are complaining about their wives, and wives are complaining about their husbands. Poor people complaining about rich people."