http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/willsmith/ en-us Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:14:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405085/posts Not Barack Obama the man, mind you. Barack Obama the idea. Which, in fairness, is true. The evolutionary “flash point” in question is called religious worship and it happened a long time ago; the cult of The One, of which Smith is evidently a proud member, is just the political example du jour. But whatever: After watching Demi Moore pledge to “serve our president” and Tony Bennett encourage people to support him in whatever he does, no amount of celebrity bootlicking should surprise anyone. Instead, and since it’s semi-related, let me use this post to open discussion on something that’s... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405085/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:14:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165093/posts Smith has staked his claim to play the role, even before Barack Obama has been inaugurated as president. Speaking at the premiere of his new film Seven Pounds at the Empire, Leicester Square, in London, Smith laughed about reports that the US President-elect had indicated that he would like the actor to play him if his life story were ever to be made into a movie. Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165093/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:43:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2165072/posts Smith has staked his claim to play the role, even before Barack Obama has been inaugurated as president.Speaking at the premiere of his new film Seven Pounds at the Empire, Leicester Square, in London, Smith laughed about reports that the US President-elect had indicated that he would like the actor to play him if his life story were ever to be made into a movie.“If I am ordered by my commander in chief to star in a film about him, I will do my duty as an American," he said, beaming.(snip)Smith said the “world had changed forever” with the election... Daily Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2165072/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:21:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2120898/posts NEW YORK - Leonardo DiCaprio is bringing out the big guns to get out the vote. Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg and Justin Timberlake are among the celebrities starring in a new public service announcement produced by the actor, who also appears in the spot. The video shows the stars struggling to grasp the concept of using reverse psychology to get young people into voting booths... Finally, Ford says, “You know what? I can’t do it. It’s not true, I don’t believe it — 537 people decided the 2000 election, and you want me to... AP via MSNBC (aka the Obama Network) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2120898/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038048/posts There’s some idea out there in the world that Will Smith "owns" the July 4 holiday weekend in terms of box office. I guess this is because of "Independence Day," one of my favorite movies, and "Men in Black," also quite good, released, respectively, in 1996 and 1997 on that weekend. Alas, all good hype must come to an end. "Hancock," with which Sony is hoping to have a merry July 4, 2008, may not duplicate Smith’s previous successes. It is one of the worst family holiday weekend releases of recent memory — and jaw-droppingly so. And that’s hard to... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038048/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:09:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975293/posts Will Smith gets apology, undisclosed damages from WENN Hollywood actor Will Smith today received an apology and undisclosed damages from a London based news agency after they distributed a story alleging the actor had called Adolf Hitler a “good person”. The article was distributed in December last year by The World Entertainment News Network (WENN) with the accompanying headline “Smith: Hitler was a good person”. After Smith complained, WENN retracted the article and circulated a correction and apology. Smith’s lawyer said the allegation was “false and without any foundation” and had wholly misrepresented the actor’s words. “The claimant believes that... Show Biz Spy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975293/posts#comment Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:51:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1940754/posts “I Am Legend” (distributed by Warner Brothers), starring Will Smith, right, in a postapocalyptic vision of a zombie-infested Manhattan, hauled in an estimated $76.5 million in its debut to capture first place in the weekend box-office rankings compiled by the tracking company Media by Numbers. Second place went to another newcomer, “Alvin and the Chipmunks” (Fox), a resurrection of the musical-cartoon franchise, which took in $45 million. Dropping to third place from second last week, the fantasy “The Golden Compass” (New Line) had $9 million in sales. “Enchanted,” Disney’s revisionist fairy tale, took in $6 million, bringing its total gross... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1940754/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:55:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940242/posts Citizen Soldier by 3 Doors Down Beyond the boundries of your city's lights. Stand the heroes waiting for your cries. So many times you did not bring this on yourself. When the moment finally comes, I'll be there to help. On that day, when you need your brothers and sisters to care. I'll be right here. Citizen soldiers. Holding the life of the ones that we guide from the dark of despair. Standing on guard for the ones that we've sheltered. We'll always be ready because we will always be there. When there're people crying in the streets When they're... youtube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940242/posts#comment Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:13:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1924309/posts The Richard Matheson's 1954 book will be released, for the second time, as a movie staring Will Smith in the lead role. The first movie was released in 1971 as "The Omega Man" staring Charleston Heston in the lead role. I am wondering why they felt they need to remake this movie. The book is actually pretty good so far I am legemd .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1924309/posts#comment Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:20:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944432/posts (Los Angeles) -- Will Smith may be upset with some Web gossip sites. But the Jewish Defense League is hot with him over the comments he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler. The JDL rips into Smith in a release posted on its Web site on Christmas Eve. After quoting Smith's comments, the group says what the actor says is "ignorant, detestable and offensive." It goes on to say that Smith's words "spit on the memory of every person murdered by the Nazis" and "stick a knife in the backs of every veteran" who fought against the Nazi... WLTX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944432/posts#comment Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:11:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944252/posts <p>LOS ANGELES — Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish newspaper about Adolf Hitler. In a story published Saturday in the Daily Record, Smith was quoted saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good."' The quote was preceded by the writer's observation: "Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good." Over the weekend, dozens of celebrity gossip Web sites posted articles about the comment, many saying that Smith believed that Hitler was a "good" person. "It is an awful and disgusting lie," Smith said in a statement Monday provided by his publicist. "It speaks to the dangerous power of an ignorant person with a pen. I am incensed and infuriated to have to respond to such ludicrous misinterpretation." "Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet," read the statement.</p> Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944252/posts#comment Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:33:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943255/posts Will Smith has disappointed us in ways we could’ve never imagined. In an interview, the 39-year-old family man and former-all around good guy says he sees the good in everyone, including Adolf Hitler. "Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘Let me do the most evil thing I can do today’. I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was ‘good’. Stuff like that just needs reprogramming,” Smith told the Daily Record. Um, yeah, except for the whole killing six million Jews thing. Will, you’ve broken our... Page Six.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943255/posts#comment Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:34:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1942956/posts [spoiler alert] ...the story had been changed in a not quite so subtle manner. The first indication was in a flashback near the beginning of the movie when Smith and his family were praying together. That doesn't happen very often in Hollywood-produced movies. Then, when a surviving mother and her son found Smith, the woman indicated that she had been called by God for that purpose. Smith was skeptical, having spent years trying to find a way to reverse the effects of a "cancer cure" that had mutated and killed most of the human population and turned the remaining members... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1942956/posts#comment Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1939944/posts SATURDAY AM: Some amazing numbers were posted Friday for this weekend's movie releases. Warner Bros' I Am Legend opens closer to $80 million than the studio's hoped-for $50 million from Friday through Sunday after making a whopping $29.6 million Friday in 3,606 theaters.... *snip* And the bottom fell out of costly domestic flop The Golden Compass from New Line, which forked out $200+ million to make it, in its second weekend in release. I know, I know, the pic is doing OK overseas. But the fantasy pic is so lost domestically it earned only an anemic $2.6 million Friday from... Deadline Hollywood Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1939944/posts#comment Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:45:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754218/posts WashPost: Will Smith's 'Radically Conservative' Movie Posted by Tim Graham on December 15, 2006 - 11:35. Washington Post movie critic Stephen Hunter (not a role model for the Politically Correct Movie Critic) cracks today that Will Smith's new movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" unfolds like a lecture from your "old man" about working hard to achieve your dreams. Hunter calls it "a radically conservative encomium to trying hard, to capitalism, to salesmanship, to Dean Witter, to never saying die, and to reaping the big reward." I don't get what's so "radically conservative" or capitalistic about working hard to achieve. (Don't... http://newsbusters.org/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754218/posts#comment Sat, 16 Dec 2006 00:45:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1742557/posts WILL SMITH refuses to send his two children with wife JADA PINKETT SMITH to school, claiming the system limits their education. Smith insists he didn't learn his most valuable lessons in school and claims there are no limits to what he can teach JADEN, eight; WILLOW, six; and his 14-year-old son TREY, from his marriage to SHEREE SMITH. He says, "The date of the Boston Tea Party does not matter. I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly... PR inside http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1742557/posts#comment Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:02:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1658383/posts Critics have recently argued that plans to form NAFTA Super-Highways in the United States were largely “urban legend” or just pure “hype.” These same critics note that many state departments of transportation are strapped for cash and that states north of Texas have no current plans to build super-highways, extending the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) north to Canada. Currently no state except Texas currently has plans to build TTC-like highways, with designs to build transportation corridors up to four football fields-wide that integrate highway toll roads, railroad transportation and utility zones for oil and natural gas pipelines, alongside towers to transmit... HumanEventsOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1658383/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:20:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373131/posts The glamorous movie star Jada Pinkett Smith created a firestorm at Harvard by openly expressing her love for her husband, actor Will Smith. Her remarks — declaring that today's woman "can have it all — a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career" — offended gay students because of their "hetero-normative content." The Biseuxal, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance demanded an apology because Smith "implied that standard sexual relationships are only between males and females." The foundation sponsoring Ms. Smith's visit promptly apologized, and scheduled a series of campus wide meetings to avoid such offensive occasions in... JWR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373131/posts#comment Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:12:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198013/posts I must admit that I was shocked to see the following words attributed to actor-rapper Will Smith, responding to a question of whether 9-11 had changed anything for him: No. Absolutely not. When you grow up black in America you have a completely different view of the world than white Americans. We blacks live with a constant feeling of unease. And whether you are wounded in an attack by a racist cop or in a terrorist attack, I'm sorry, it makes no difference. You cannot get much more hypocritical than that. Smith's evident contempt for America is baffling. He is... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198013/posts#comment Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:19:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1362452/posts Actor Will Smith claims he was forbidden from kissing Cameron Diaz on screen because of American racism.The actors says that Hollywood panders to the nation's problem of seeing a black man and a white woman together and stopped the co-stars kissing in the new movie 'Hitch.'To avoid controversy, Smith said he smooched Latin beauty Eva Mendes instead.The 36 year old 'Men in Black' star said, 'How are you not going to consider Cameron Diaz? But Hollywood is still nervous about a black man kissing a white woman on screen. ''That becomes massive news in the United States. Outside America, it's... Female First UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1362452/posts#comment Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:42:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1355237/posts ollywood actress Jada Pinkett Smith may have been honored as Artist of the Year Saturday at Harvard University, but her speech ruffled some feathers among the Ivy League school's gay community.      The Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance is reportedly taking issue with Smith's remarks as being too specific to heterosexual relationships, according to The Harvard Crimson.      ``Some of the content was extremely heteronormative, and made BGLTSA members feel uncomfortable,'' BGLTSA co-chairman Jordan Woods told the Crimson. The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1355237/posts#comment Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:17:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344578/posts Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman all owe a debt of gratitude to James Edwards. Today, two of Hollywood's five highest-paid stars are black: Will Smith and Denzel Washington. Jamie Foxx (Ray) and Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby) are the front-runners for the best actor and best supporting actor Oscars, respectively. (And while I have yet to see Ray, I did see Million Dollar Baby, and can tell you that Freeman is every bit as good as his press). Smith, Washington, Foxx and Freeman all owe a debt of gratitude to James Edwards.Three years ago, Halle Berry... Intellectual Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344578/posts#comment Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:10:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338450/posts Will Smith admits he can imagine cheating on his wife - but only with her permission.The Men In Black star said he and Jada Pinkett Smith agreed they would warn each other and ask for approval if they felt the need to sleep with someone else. 'Our perspective is, you don't avoid what's natural. You're going to be attracted to people,' said Smith, 36. 'In our marriage vows, we didn't say, "forsaking all others". The vow we made was that you will never hear I did something after the fact.' Eva Mendes, his co-star in his new movie Hitch, was... Metro http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1338450/posts#comment Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295782/posts A four-month-old interview that Will Smith gave to a German newspaper - in which the movie star equated the devastation of 9/11 with an attack by "a racist cop" - is belatedly raising blood pressure in the United States. Yesterday, Syracuse activist Jon Alvarez - whose Web site, PABAAH.com, stands for Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood - launched a boycott of Smith's movies over the Aug. 9 interview in Frankfurter Allgemeine, a major daily. "No. Absolutely not," Smith replied when reporter Johanna Adorjan asked if the events of 9/11 had personally changed him. "When you grow up black in America... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1295782/posts#comment Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:08:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1292611/posts From an August interview in GERMANY! Note the author's belief that his anti-Americanism will actually HELP his career! Sorry Will, no more money for you! Star Actor Will Smith to German Press: 9/11 Changed Nothing for Me In an interview posted August 9 on the website of a major Frankfurt newspaper under the title "George W. Bush Lied to Me," star actor Will Smith had some interesting things to say about the USA, President George W. Bush, Michael Moore and the September 11 terror attacks among other things. When asked if 9/11 had changed anything for him personally, Smith answered:... PABAAH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1292611/posts#comment Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:44:43 GMT