More Than Shaft: Hayes Was a Goldmine of Influence. Associated Press, August 10, 2008.
Of course, we remember him as the composer of the Theme from Shaft, which won an Academy Award for best Original Song for the movie Shaft (1971).
I love it when people reinvent themselves -- and he did that, keeping his fame alive with his role as the Chef in South Park, and with roles and cameos in many films. One short role that he had that always cracks me up ('cause I'm twisted and have an extremely weird sense of humor), was in the truly horrible movie Reindeer Games. He and Ben Affleck were inmates in the same prison, and in the cafeteria, Hayes' character had a meltdown, jumping up and exclaiming "There are...monsters...in the gelatin" louder and louder until complete havoc ensues. After that, you might as well turn the movie off.
I just had to add this picture because my parents have so many pictures of my father in plaid suit jackets just like this one, and this car, while not a Monte Carlo, reminds me of the old, red, Monte Carlo that we had in the seventies. For a while, growing up, I even thought one of my uncles looked like Isaac Hayes.
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