Will Smith

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kw said:

Has there been rumours of specific people, or just that one interview? Details!

I could be totally wrong, but wasn't there a rumor that Jada was having an affair with a female bandmate or something like that?

I think both of them are bi.

[Karen]

$27 million opening weekend for The Pursuit of Happyness. Since the BO is good, I guess he'll be getting his second Oscar nom for this film.

I really hope the clams don't convert him to the crazy.

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Well, there's a quote currently making the rounds in which he supposedly said:

I was raised in a Baptist household and my gramdmother would get up out of her casket (if I became a Scientologist.)

Somone referenced it in one of the Gruesome Twosome's threads just last week and, since it sounds exactly like something he'd say, I'd hazard that he probably said it.

So, no, he ain't going over to the dark side, even if that hard looking woman he's married to does; in fact, I doubt she will either since, just last week, she donated a million bucks to her Baltimore HS for a theater to be named for her late friend and former classmage Tupac. If she was gung-ho on the cult, I figure she would have donated some dough to them, and Clambo would have made doggone sure everyone knew it.

[kiran]

I cant help liking him, so I hope he stays aways from the dark side.

Plus I do think he genuinely deserves the Oscar nod for this performance. The film itself is enjoyable fluff, but hes fantastic. And his son's good too.

[luthia]

I don't like Will Smith, but I have to say that Pursuit of Happyness was fantastic, as was his acting. Before seeing the movie, I thought his nomination for a Globe was a crock, but now I see why he was nominated. The last moment in the movie is a real tearjerker. He truly was great in this. I never saw Ali, but this must be his best or one of his best performances.

[kiran]

I thought he was very good in Ali, but I thought it was his best performance since Six Degrees of Seperation. I've never seen him play someone so far removed from himself.

[Hamatron]

I would hope that selling the clam bonanza to Will would be hard-- wasn't L.Ron a bigot? I seem to remember reading that he believed (and wrote about) how he thought the black mind was incapable of comprehending the ins and outs of his totally awesome cult. I guess current clams can play things like that down...

[margojata]

I was afraid to read here that he'd sipped the koolaid - he's been acting awfully manic lately. On Letterman and then on Regis, he's kind of doing Tom's over the top SO happy/everything is hilariously funny thing.

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margojata said:

I was afraid to read here that he'd sipped the koolaid - he's been acting awfully manic lately. On Letterman and then on Regis, he's kind of doing Tom's over the top SO happy/everything is hilariously funny thing.

He's always been like that.

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I liked him in Enemy of the State too. Hitch was not even on my "watch on cable" list, nor were most of his other films; he was adequate as Ali but I grew up with a crush on Ali and followed his career quite closely so, for me, Will was no substitute for the real thing. Plus, I got to meet Muhammad, touch him, lean into his Rolls Royce Corniche in the 80s, when he lived in Fremont Place, just around the corner from my paternal aunt.

I'm a Rubik's Cube freak; it's always been more than a fad for me, so that in itself makes the Pursuit of Happyness a movie I want to see. Plus, the Gardner guy was on 60 Minutes, I think, way back in the 80s or early 90s, and his story was quite inspiring.

As for that hard-looking little woman he's married to donating in secret to the cult; YMMV, but I don't see Tom letting that be a secret since it would be a clear sign TO HIM that she's coming along as a possible convert. As I said, YMMV, but from that quote Will allegedly made, it would seem he was speaking for both of them.

I'd heard that they were home-schooling the Smith churren using the cult's Study Techniques gobbledy-gook, but the attention span of Hollywood stars is very short, so maybe she's moved on to some other curriculum. I heard a suck-up folk on one of the suck-up shows say that their children were being home-schooled. but didn't mention the cult. I doubt very much that he'd ever convert; I take him at his word.

Yep, he's always been a little manic, so it always surprises me when he turns in a stellar performance. Personally, I didn't care for Six Degrees of Separation and wonder what all the hoopla regarding it is about.