There's a scene in "Top Five," the new film written by, directed by and starring Chris Rock, in which the action on screen and the soundtrack are in perfect harmony, precisely because they're at complete odds. It involves Mr. Rock in flagrante with two women. Cedric the Entertainer, as a flamboyant fixer, shows up as well. What transpires is uproarious and moist, but what's playing in the background is tender: Freddie Jackson's "You Are My Lady." In the film, Mr. Rock plays Andre Allen, a stand-up comic turned film superstar who loathes the nature of his fame, based on goofy characters and catchphrases. He has a reality-TV-star fiancée, a fragile grip on his sobriety and — desperate to be taken seriously — a vanity project about a Haitian slave uprising that's about to torpedo his career. Over the course of a day, he tells his story to a journalist (played by Rosario Dawson) and tries to unearth the spark that was there before celebrity became an albatross. There are, of course, echoes of Mr. Rock's own path through Hollywood, in which big-ticket studio movies that weren't always received rapturously have given way to more modest-scale films, sometimes with Mr. Rock… Read full this story
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