Christine Taylor

And to play a bitch." People magazine, March 13, 1995. As an artist, Charles topped the Hot 100 three times in the 1960s, but always with other writers' songs. "Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare. By reaching number-one, "Gold Digger" gave Charles his first Hot 100 chart-topper as a songwriter, credited as a result of the "I Got a Woman" sample. They had a second child, a son named Quinlin Dempsey Stiller, on July 10, 2005. On the Pop 100, "Gold Digger" also broke a record by jumping from number 94 to number-two, giving West the record for the biggest ever jump on that chart. On April 10, 2002, Taylor and Stiller had their first child, a daughter named Marcia Olivia Stiller. "Gold Digger" also became West's first Top 10 single on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, peaking at number-two.

Like Stiller, Taylor is considered a gifted comedic actress whose success in television and film acting has been varied, but not often heralded. The song spent ten weeks at the top of the Hot 100 until rising Hip-Hop/R&B star Chris Brown's hit "Run It!" shot up to the pole position for the week of November 19. Taylor has since appeared opposite Stiller in a number of films, including Zoolander (2001) and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). The jump ended the fourteen-week run of Carey's "We Belong Together" at number-one, and kept Carey's "Shake It Off" from replacing "We Belong Together" as the number-one single. In May 2000, she married actor and writer Ben Stiller. The high digital download sales helped propel the song from number-nineteen to number-one in one week, the fifth highest jump ever to that position on the Hot 100. In the 1990s, Taylor dated actor Matthew Lillard. "Gold Digger" has sold over 1,000,000 downloads during its seven weeks of release.

Earl becomes infatuated with her after attempting to return her laptop that he previously stole. The song broke the record for the most digital downloads sold in one week, and the record for the fastest selling digital single of all time, both previously held by Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl". The episode, titled "The Professor", featured Taylor as a sexy and beautiful college professor. Approximately 80,000 digital downloads of "Gold Digger" were sold through on legal music services such as iTunes and Napster in that first week, making it the most successful digital sales debut ever. On February 9, 2006, Taylor guest starred on NBC's "My Name Is Earl", a show starring Jason Lee and known for its one-camera filming approach. When Late Registration was released, the album version of "Gold Digger" was first made available for download. She also played the best friend role in the successful Drew Barrymore/Adam Sandler film The Wedding Singer. Their concerns were unfounded as "Gold Digger" became a success, hitting number one on the Hot 100, Pop 100, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and the Hot Rap Tracks charts.

Following Party Girl, Taylor's career advanced rapidly, highlighted by guest television appearances on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and NBC's Friends and Seinfeld. Following the chart performance of "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", which failed to crack the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, West's label became concerned with how a follow up single would perform. In 1996, Taylor was awarded the lead role in the television series, Party Girl, in which she played the role of a self-destructive rave party organizer, who indulges in drugs and all-night partying. Foxx is also present, lip-synching both his own parts and the Ray Charles vocal sample. Taylor's physical resemblance to the character of Marcia Brady, coupled with several successful comedic guest appearances on Ellen, led to her being cast in the 1995 film spoof of the television show The Brady Bunch called The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel the following year. The titles of the magazines the women appear on the cover of reflect the correlating verses in the song. She continued in that role through 1991, while making various guest appearances on other programs. Shot in a CinemaScope letterbox format, using stylized art direction with few props, the video features performances shots of West intercut with footage of Williams' trademark female video models depicted as "pin-up" cover models from fictional vintage magazines.

After graduating from Allentown's Central Catholic High School, Taylor began her acting career in 1989 on the Nickelodeon Network children's television series Hey Dude, where she played the perky character Melody Hanson, a lifeguard. The song's music video was directed by Hype Williams, who also directed West's previous video, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone". . In an ironic final twist which punctuates the sarcasm inherent in the song, West points out that when that hopeful and ambitious broke man finally gets "put on", however, he is very likely to "leave your ass for a white girl.". Christine Joan Taylor (born July 30, 1971 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. West urges his female listeners to stick with their man, even if he is a dishwasher or cook at a fast-food restaurant, instead of going after the men with the money. Hey Dude (1989) (TV series). She even lies to her man about the paternity of her child, resulting in the man supporting the child for 18 years until he discovers he is not the father.

Calendar Girl (1993). "Now I ain't saying she a gold digger," West tells his audience, "but she ain't messin with no broke niggas." The woman spends money her man gives her to buy her kid's toys on liposuction and plastic surgery (West comments that the woman was "supposed to buy your shorty (child) tyco wit' your money", but instead "went to the doctor and got "lipo" wit' your money"). Showdown (1993). In the song, West and Foxx deliver a tongue-in-cheek criticism of a woman who falsely seduces a man under the true pretense of spending his money, playing into the stereotype of African-American young women as being gold diggers. Night of the Demons 2 (1994) (V). The two also worked on Foxx's latest album, and West features on Foxx's song "Extravaganza". Breaking Free (1995). The song is the second collaboration between Foxx and West, following "Slow Jamz" with Twista.

The Brady Bunch Movie (1995). Though he is given full credit as a featured artist on "Gold Digger," Jamie Foxx's only vocal contribution is the a cappella introduction to the song, an interpolation of Charles's "I Got a Woman" (Foxx opens the song with the line "She take my money/when I'm in need/Yeah she's a trifling/friend indeed," a twist on Charles' original lyrics, "She gives me money/when I'm in need/Yeah she's a kind/of friend to me." A sample of Charles singing the original is repeated throughout the song). Here Come the Munsters (1995) (TV). The song is built around both a vocal interpolation and a sample of "I Got a Woman", originally performed by Ray Charles and written by Charles and Renald Charles. The Craft (1996). "Gold Digger" was written by Kanye West, and co-produced by West and Jon Brion. To the Ends of Time (1996) (TV). .

A Very Brady Sequel (1996). As of December 10th 2005, "Gold Digger" was nominated for "Record of the Year" for the 2006 Grammy Awards. Cat Swallows Parakeet and Speaks! (1996). It is 2005's second-longest running #1 on The Billboard Hot 100 at 10 weeks, behind Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together". Party Girl (1996) (TV series). The single broke a record for the most digital downloads in a week, selling over 80,000 digital downloads, and is also the fastest selling digital download of all time. Campfire Tales (1997). Based upon elements of the Ray Charles song "I Got a Woman", "Gold Digger" features Jamie Foxx, who portrayed Charles in the 2004 feature film Ray, imitating Charles' vocal style.

Denial (1998). The second single from West's second album, Late Registration, "Gold Digger" peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, becoming West's and Foxx's second number-one single after 2003's "Slow Jamz" with Twista. The Wedding Singer (1998). "Gold Digger" is a 2005 number-one single recorded by Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx, and released by Roc-a-Fella Records. Overnight Delivery (1998). Heat Vision and Jack (1999) (TV).

Desperate But Not Serious (1999). Kiss Toledo Goodbye (1999). Zoolander (2001). Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004).

The First Year's A Bitch (2004). Room 6 (2006). The Mirror (2006) (completed).