Because I chose the movie, CB4, as my project, I decided to focus my research efforts on the main creator of the movie rather than the director. Chris Rock undoubtedly has more to do with the movie than the director. I ended up researching both just in case, and I found my assumption to be true. The director of the movie generally directed TV shows, and other movies that are not in dire need of great direction. I researched Chris Rock since I felt that his story would have much more correlation to the movie, and my researching proved correct. As the writer, producer, and main actor of the movie, it was obvious that the film belonged to Rock.

The first place I knew to look when researching about anyone who has any part in film is the Internet movie database, or IMBD for short. Imbd.com was a great resource in researching both the movie and Rock himself. It contains a lot of information about movie components in a specific detailed manner, such as who was in the movie, what other movies they've been in, when the movie was made, etc. It also contains short biographies of individual actors, but not in too much detail. The site is a great starting point when trying to discover anything in this area, but unfortunately, it is a lot like wikipedia in that it is user edited. It pointed me in one great direction indicating that Rock had written a book. I'll get back to the book later, but first I wanted to cross-reference some of the material with a more reliable source, so I next checked yahoo movies.

Yahoo movies is a bit more reliable because it isn't a composite piece made by many users, but rather a database composed by some group whose job it is to ensure accurate information. Sometimes they can be a bit lacking since not everyone is a superstar worth writing tons about, but with Chris Rock's super-stardom, it was full of information about him. Many of the facts lined up between these two sites. The only problem is that there is a good chance that some IMBD facts could have come from yahoo movies. So I googled his book to see what I could find from that.

Unfortunately, the book seemed to be nothing more than stand up by Rock in written form. I didn't actually find a print copy of the book, but all the reviews indicated that it was funny, but that it was simply a collection of comedic routines rather than a serious biography. I then realized that maybe the best source about Rock's life would be his stand up routines.

Of course, every comedian embellishes in order to enhance the comedy of their stories, but Rock's routines often times involve factoids about his life that don't seem to be overblown. In the end, I realized that there aren't too many sources of information on Chris Rock that aren't from a short interview, or a comedy sketch, or a quick biography on a website designated to movies. I guess that might be one of the problems of being an actor that performs comedy – no one takes you seriously enough to write much of an honest biography.