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  • Jada Pinkett & Will Smith Snow Some Holiday Lovin'

    
    Will Smith wants you to know that when he's missing in action over the holidays, you can blame his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. "Jada is a little crazy about Christmas," he said...
    on 2008-12-19 04:46:49

  • Jada Pinkett the Tomboy!

    
    "I'm a girl-guy and I always have been," says Will Smith's better half. Jada Pinkett Smith knows how to work the red carpet in glamorous gowns with her husband Will Smith by her side, but the busy mother and actress insists she's...
    on 2008-10-30 04:51:28

  • Will and Jada Pinkett Smith?s Red Carpet Night

    
    They’re usually the center of Hollywood attention, but last night Will Smith and wife Jada Pinkett were content to assume the role of spectator at the big premiere of “The Secret Life of Bees.” The “I Am Legend” stud look
    on 2008-10-08 04:54:55

  • Will Smith's Weight Loss Keeps Passion Alive.

    
    The Men In Black star, 39, married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997, and has two children with her - Jaden, nine, and Willow, seven.
    on 2007-12-15 08:45:26

  • Will Smith Loses Weight To Help Save Marriage

    
    Weight Loss Keeps Passion Alive…. Will Smith is delighted with the effects of losing weight for new film I Am Legend as his new physique has enhanced his sexual prowess. The Ali star, 39, married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997, and has two children wi
    on 2007-12-15 16:46:25
  • NY DAILY NEWS...RUSH AND MOLLOY "The O.C.'s" Mischa Barton and her rocker boyfriend, Cisco Adler, have fled Aspen for Miami - perhaps because of the chilly reception they got at the ski town's hottest club. Last week, the couple showed up with a posse at the Caribou, the private establishment where Hollywood decamps during the holidays. "Cisco pushed ahead to the door," says our snitch. "The doorman said, 'Are you a member?' When he said, 'No,' they turned him away. But it was more about his attitude, like everyone should know who he was. He really made a scene." "The next night, they came back. Cisco said, 'We know Jack.' The doorman said, 'Jack who?' He said, 'Jack Nicholson.' The doorman said, 'Jack's a member, but you should have had Jack call.'" Turned away again, they had somebody call one of the club's owners the next night. This time, they were granted entrance. "They were much better behaved," says our spy, who speculated the pair might have gotten in the first night if the gorgeous-but-shy Barton hadn't been hidden behind her bold-but-skeevy boyfriend. Elsewhere around town: Don Johnson and wife Kelley celebrated the news of their third child with a New Year's Eve blowout. Jada Pinkett and Will Smith have been working out at 6 a.m. at the Aspen Athletic Club. Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld and Heidi Klum stopped by the Aspen Mountain Club. Rebecca DeMornay scouted jewelry at Dior. Robert Wagner and Jill St. John had lunch at Little Nell's. Ivana Trump came to Aspen without a man for the first time that anyone can remember. She and her mother went shopping at Dennis Basso, where Ivana spent $50,000 on two fur coats. But no amount of retail therapy could console her when word came that her ex-boyfriend Count Roffredo Lovatelli Gaetani was killed in a car accident in Italy. "She was so upset, she didn't leave her hotel room," says a source. Except when it came time to move on to St. Bart's. Also on that island were Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova, who assured all onlookers at the Yacht Club that they're still a couple. "They were at a corner table - hugging and kissing like they'd just started dating," says a spy.
  • doomella wrote: > took it as part of the package as they went about their wifely duties. Currently, too. Look at Goldie Hawn and Jada Pinkett or whatever her name is. Undemanding women are here to stay.
  • The way to happiness according to Tom Cruise By Holly Millea; photographs by Tom Munro Tom Cruise sits splay-legged in an overstuffed chair smiling at the ceiling, rubbing his chin: "God, the last movie I saw on a date?" he says, repeating the question. He smiles harder. "Casablanca!" Then he sets off that artillery-fire laugh of his. What's so funny? "I'm remembering the date," he says, catching his breath. "It was a great date. Fun date. Really fun. Adventurous." Now we're getting somewhere. If the movie was Casablanca, the date must have been at his house. "No, it wasn't," Cruise says, shaking his head. "No more! No more! I was a good sport. I won't tell you where I watched it . . ." Then it must have been . . . his plane. He put the plane on autopilot. "You're bad!" the actor says, suddenly springing like a jack-in-the-box from his chair onto mine, bouncing my shoulders against the cushy back. He retreats, grinning. "I didn't put it on autopilot." Sitting back down, he swears, "I'm not saying another word." Three days later Tom Cruise flies to Rome and broadcasts his romance with actress Katie Holmes'>Katie Holmes to the universe, issuing a formal dating announcement, lip-locking for photographers, and granting audiences to Extra and Access Hollywood. The response is a collective caterwaul of disbelief from media and fans alike-speculation that since both stars are opening big summer movies (Holmes in Batman Begins and Cruise in War of the Worlds), this was just about boosting their box office. It brings to mind the famous line from Jerry Maguire, "Help me, help you." A line Cruise actually ad-libbed. And when you spend a little time in the star's ever more Scientology-centered orbit, you begin to realize that maybe he wasn't just improvising. Maybe he was setting forth his mission statement. "I'll have you know you are christening the back of this bike," Cruise says, picking me up on his new Honda Valkyrie Rune. Decal'd with War of the Worlds creeping red alien vines, the motorcycle was a wrap gift from Steven Spielberg, who in turn received a black 1966 Shelby GT in mint condition. Before arriving, Cruise unexpectedly and thoughtfully sent an assistant to the hotel with a choice of helmets, jackets, gloves, and boots. But even without the gear, the overriding feeling in the company of Cruise is one of safety. Physically he is solid. Emotionally he is clear. Intellectually he is certain. Universally he is known. He so projects the warmth and enthusiasm of a long-lost high-school friend you begin to wonder why you haven't kept in touch over the years. A sanitation truck blocks the back-alley entrance to the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project (H.E.L.P.). Cruise leaves his bike in the middle of the alley and walks around the truck, where he's instantly recognized by the garbagemen, who offer to move. "No, please, you guys are doing a job," Cruise says, passing around presidential handshakes. "I appreciate that." H.E.L.P. is a learning center based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's Study Technology, which Cruise credits with curing his dyslexia. After a tour of the place, we go upstairs to a nonde room and sit around a coffee table filled with platters of nuts and cookies and raw vegetables. Cruise takes off his tan leather jacket, revealing a T-shirt that's the same deep-green color as his eyes. In jeans, with his short helmet-mussed hair, he looks a good 10 years younger than 42. He cracks open a bottle of water and grabs a handful of cashews. It's easy to see the five-foot-seven, squarely built Cruise as Ray Ferrier, the blue-collar deadbeat dad he plays in War of the Worlds, Spielberg's $135 million take on H.G. Wells' classic science-fiction novel. "Ray is more of a child than his children," Cruise says. "His back story is kind of Bruce Springsteen's 'The River'-first love, got married, had children, ended up getting divorced. And parents, if they tend to not do well with children, they love them, but they just step back." The family dynamic is familiar to Cruise, whose parents divorced when he was 12, leaving him the man of the house with three sisters and a mother who worked three, sometimes four jobs at a time. Cruise didn't see his father, an electrical engineer, for about 10 years. "Emotionally, he was having a tough time in life," Cruise recalls. "But I also know that in his own way, he was trying to help. He just was incapable of doing it. And, you know, some people hurt when they help, and when that happens, they feel bad and withdraw." In 1983, newly famous thanks to Risky Business and All the Right Moves, Cruise received a call from his grandmother, who told him his father was dying. "So I went and saw him," Cruise says quietly. "It was very powerful, because the last time I saw him I was a boy, and now I'm a young man. I felt bad for him." He sighs a heavy sigh. "You know, it happened. Whatever. I'm gonna live my life and be the person that I want to be. And do the right thing. That's what I felt-I want to do the right thing." That weighted relationship is in sharp contrast to the one he has with his mother, a devout Catholic who became a Scientologist two years ago. Even during the most trying times she never wavered in seeing the world sunny-side up. "We called her Merry Mary Lee because she just laughed, a big beautiful southern laugh," remembers Cruise. "If I got lost or separated from her, I would just wait in the mall, wherever we were, and I'd just close my eyes and wait for her to laugh." He closes his eyes, hearing her now. "It was so loud and distinct that I would go to that laugh. Where is she, where is she, where is she?" ------------------------------------------------------------------ "We instinctively revere the great artist, painter or musician, and society as a whole looks upon them as not quite ordinary beings. And they are not. They are a cut above man. . . . He who can truly communicate to others is a higher being who builds new worlds." -L. Ron Hubbard ------------------------------------------------------------------ Increasingly, Cruise is as eager to spread the word on his religion as he is to promote his movie projects. For all his proselytizing, it's getting harder to distinguish the Superstar from the Scientologist. So when, in anticipation of an interview, the actor extends an invitation through his publicist (and sister), Lee Anne De Vette, to take a Scientology tour, it is an intriguing and curious enticement. Would Mel Gibson's publicist take you through the Vatican? Would Madonna invite you to a bris? "There's so much interest," Cruise explains when asked why he invites not only journalists but also studio executives and co-stars to go on tours. "People want to know-how did I do what I've done? I don't believe in hiding things. A lot of people want to hide things and not let people know the truth because they feel that there's a kind of control or power in that. See, I believe the opposite. If I've done something and it's helped me I'll turn to anyone and say, 'Look, I've gone this way.'" The crash course spans six hours and three facilities and includes lectures and exhibits on the evils of psychiatry, drug abuse, and illiteracy ("crimes against humanity," Cruise calls them); a swing through the church's Celebrity Centre International; and "a gift from Tom" - a pricey black nylon computer bag with a card embossed with TOM CRUISE on one side and your name on the other. Inside are various Scientology materials and DVDs, including This is Scientology and How to Use Dianetics, plus a bright-orange pamphlet titled The Way to Happiness, whose cover features in large letters the sentiment YOUR HAPPINESS MEANS THE WORLD TO ME, with Cruise's name printed beneath it. There's also a wrapped and ribboned box containing a plasticized Code of Honor - Scientology's equivalent of the Ten Commandments, only they have 15. It is the same plaque Cruise sent to industry executives for the holidays. Among the precepts: 3. Never desert a group to which you owe your support. 5. Never need praise, approval or sympathy. 6. Never compromise with your own reality. 8. Do not give or receive communication unless you yourself desire it. 12. Never fear to hurt another in a just cause. 13. Don't desire to be liked or admired. Cruise's amped-up openness about his beliefs and willingness to spread Hubbard-brand happiness were very much in evidence during the filming of War of the Worlds, where he pitched a Scientology tent staffed by "volunteer ministers"-well-groomed men in suits offering "assists" to anyone on the cast and crew. Justin Chatwin, who plays Cruise's son in the movie, jokingly called them Men in Black, but was not above exploring what they had to offer. "They said, 'Do you want an assist?'" says Chatwin. "And I was like, 'What's an assist?' And they said, 'It's kind of like a back massage.' So I said, 'Of course, I'll take an assist! Can this be a 45-minute assist?' So I lay down on the table and they assisted me. It's really relaxing." Cruise says there's nothing more to the tents than simple goodwill. "My crew work very, very long hours," he says. "I'll do whatever I can to help them." Or anyone else, for that matter. "I've always looked at things in terms of, Is this improving, helping people, or is it not helping people?" says Cruise. "And is it helping me, or not helping me? Is this helping the world?" "The last time I saw Tom I was talking to him about some things," recalls his close friend and Collateral co-star Jada Pinkett Smith, who now home-schools her kids with Hubbard's Study Technology. "Just the difficulty in helping people be better. How people will resist that. And he's like, 'Hell, no! You don't ask permission to help somebody! No, no, no, no . . . That's not how you go about that.' I thought that was interesting." Sydney Pollack, who co-starred with Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut and directed him in The Firm, sees Cruise's strong embrace of Scientology as part of a personality that takes no half-measures. "He's dead serious about what he gets into," Pollack says. "During Eyes Wide Shut, he didn't know how to cook anything, so he would sit there and videotape everything I did and write it all down and practice them. And now he can cook every single one of those dishes. I'm quite sure there's something in Scientology that works in a positive way for him-that he finds a sense of validity or encouragement or motivation-or he wouldn't be doing it." "Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism-whatever gets you through the night," says director Harold Becker, who gave Cruise his big break in Taps. "People look in from the outside at someone like Tom Cruise and they say, 'How wonderful to be blessed that way, with everything.' But nobody ever knows what torments anyone has to go through." Cruise calls from 30,000 feet up in the air, somewhere over mid-America. He is on a private plane to Rome to accept a David di Donatello award-Italy's Oscar-for lifetime achievement. It is two days after our meeting at H.E.L.P., and unbeknownst to me (and everyone else), he will shortly make a pit stop in New York to pick up Katie Holmes for their Roman holiday. On the phone, Cruise continues to try to explain his church and his beliefs, and it prompts an existential question-what does he think happens when someone dies? "They leave their body and go get another one," he says matter-of-factly. "I believe in reincarnation, absolutely. I believe that man is not his body. He's a spiritual being. And he lives many lifetimes." The cynics aren't giving this new lifetime of Cruise's, the one co-starring Katie Holmes'>Katie Holmes, much of a chance. But Cruise, who was divorced from Mimi Rogers in 1990 and Nicole Kidman in 2001, and ended a long relationship with Penelope Cruz a year and a half ago, says he wouldn't mind getting married again. "I'd like to have more kids," he says, referring to Isabella, 12, and Connor, 10. "But I'm not rushing into it. I like long-term relationships. Sex is great when you're in a relationship with someone. I just don't find it to be that interesting outside of that. It's a little disconcerting." Does he ever have that all-too-human reaction of getting jealous seeing his old flames photographed with someone new? "I don't. I don't!" Cruise says, laughing. "No, I don't. But the relationship is in a different place. They can talk to me about boyfriends. I don't make decisions lightly. When I'm with people, I really don't stop caring about them. I really just want them to be happy." He can't help himself. TOM BY DEFINITION - FATHER: "Emotionally, he [had] a tough time. He was trying to help. He was just incapable of doing it. Some people hurt when they help." MOTHER: "If I got lost, separated from her, I'd close my eyes and wait for her to laugh. I would go to that laugh. Where is she, where is she?" SELF-RELIANCE: "I don't discuss things with anybody else. When I do something, I sit back and I think it out very carefully, and then I do it." LIFE: "This world, it's rough-and-tumble. It's wild and ragged. And the point is, are you confronting life? Are you in present time?" SUCCESS: "People want to know-how did I do what I've done? If I've done something and it's helped me I'll say, 'Look, I've gone this way.'" HEALTH: "Any drug you put in your system is a poison. It's not a matter of morality. It's a matter of scientific fact." SALVATION: "I've always looked at things in terms of, Is this helping people, or is it not helping people? Is this helping the world?" SEX: "Sex is great when you're in a relationship with someone. I just don't find it to be that interesting outside of that. It's a little disconcerting." WORK: "I always knew I could work, I can get a job. Some people think talking on the phone or reading is working. I don't consider that work." ART: "How Hollywood works, there's profit in keeping an artist not knowing. It's oppression. It's suppression. It's keeping them ignorant." MIND: "When you really study psychiatry, it's a pseudo-science. It's not based on facts. You can interpret behavior a million different ways." DEATH: "I believe in reincarnation, absolutely. I believe that man is not his body. He's a spiritual being. And he lives many lifetimes." http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_2101
  • http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/06/09//columnists/scoop//20050609_co 01_scoop.txt Ozzy stands by his girl Ozzy Osbourne is finding himself on the defensive about his decision to put actress Jada Pinkett-Smith's band, Wicked Wisdom, in the lineup for this summers' Ozzfest. Wicked Wisdom, fronted by actor Will Smith's better half, opened for the European leg of Britney Spears' Hotel Onyx tour. According to Billboard magazine, Ozzy heard the band at a Los Angeles nightclub last April and was so impressed, he offered the gig. However, since announcing their inclusion in the event, Ozzy's taken a lot of heat, but he steadfastly stands by Wicked Wisdom. "Let me tell you, I was blown away. When you see and hear Jada with her band, it's apparent that she has nothing but love and respect for this genre of music," he said. "I totally respect that the band wants to pay their dues playing the second stage on Ozzfest."
  • http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column/index.cfm?columnID=8987 Sith Wins Close Memorial Day Box Office Race Weekend Box Office Wrap-Up for May 27-30, 2005 By John Hamann May 30, 2005 Top Ten for Weekend of May 27-30, 2005 Rank Film Number of Sites Percentage Drop Estimated 4-day Gross ($) Cumulative Gross ($) 1 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 3,663 -35% $70.8 $271.2 2 Madagascar 4,131 New $61.0 $61.0 3 The Longest Yard 3,634 New $60.0 $60.0 4 Monster-in-Law 3,230 -23% $11.1 $60.7 5 Kicking & Screaming 2,966 -39% $6.6 $44.2 6 Crash 1,680 +8% $6.0 $36.1 7 The Interpreter 1,171 -9% $2.6 $69.2 8 Unleashed 1,419 -43% $2.3 $21.9 9 Kingdom of Heaven 1,328 -39% $2.2 $45.0 10 House of Wax 1,635 -50% $1.6 $29.9 Memorial Day Weekend launches the true start to the summer box office, and what a weekend it was, with three blockbusters all vying for top spot at the box office. There was some concern that the three films - The Longest Yard, Madagascar and the second weekend of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith - might cannibalize each other's potential receipts. That didn't happen, and each of these films got off to fantastic starts. While the three films weren't able to keep total box office ahead of last year, none flopped, so the coming weekends may have a shot at beating last year's totals. The number one film over the powerful Memorial Day weekend is Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The George Lucas epic was not able to keep up with the torrid pace it started with last weekend, but it was able to hold onto the number one spot, grossing $70.8 million over the four-day weekend, and $55.1 million over the three-day frame. At 3,663 venues this weekend, the blockbuster scored a four-day average of $19,314, and dropped 35% compared to last weekend's three-day figure. It now sits at $271.2 million, well ahead of where Spider-Man sat after 12 days of release ($232.8 million), and only about $40 million behind where Attack of the Clones finished ($302.2 million). Revenge of the Sith crossed the $200 million mark last Thursday, its 8th day of release, tying Spider-Man for the quickest film ever to make it to $200 million. Revenge of the Sith should also have no problem reaching $300 million faster than record holder Shrek 2, which reached that number in 18 days. Additionally, Sith is as big a hit overseas as it is domestically, as its overseas total is already approaching $250 million, and the international take has already passed $500 million. 20th Century Fox and LucasFilm have to be ecstatic about the gross so far. Next week new releases Cinderella Man, Lords of Dogtown and The Sisterhood of Travelling Pants roll out, so with little competition for its demographic, Revenge of the Sith should have another strong frame next weekend. In second spot this weekend is DreamWorks' Madagascar, which proves there was enough room for both Star Wars and the animated blockbuster in a similar demographic. Chris Rock's first of two films in the top three performed as expected. It did much better than Shark Tale, but didn't find the success of Shrek 2. Madagascar opened strong over the long weekend, grossing a powerful $61 million from a very wide 4,131 venues (about 500 more than Revenge of the Sith and The Longest Yard). It had a venue average of $14,766. Madagascar built on its weekend nicely; after grossing $14 million on Friday, the animated film increased its score on Saturday by 30%, pulling in $18.1 million. Sunday's take dropped somewhat to $14.9 million, but there is still good momentum for the Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith feature. Buzz was hot heading into the long weekend, but it may have cooled somewhat after its first four days. Reviews were not kind to the DreamWorks product, of the 121 notices gathered at RottenTomatoes, a surprising 55 were of the negative variety, leading to rotten score of 55% (Shrek 2 was 88% fresh). Again, there is nothing much to get in the way of Madagascar over the next few weeks until The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl on June 10, or when Herbie: Fully Loaded hits screens on June 22. The number three film this weekend is The Longest Yard, but positioning may change when actuals are released tomorrow. Adam Sandler's remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds film grossed a more powerful than expected $60 million from 3,634 venues, leaving it only $1 million behind Madagascar. The take for Yard equals a venue average of $16,510, and the three-day gross of about $48 million is Sandler's biggest opening weekend ever, ahead of Anger Management's $42.2 million. The Memorial Day weekend had never been kind to comedies until Bruce Almighty came along in 2003 and found $85.7 million, doubling that of the last comedy, The Flintstones, to open on Memorial Day. MTV Films, Paramount, Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Films (Sandler's production company) were behind The Longest Yard, and credit has to go the film's marketing department. Awareness was huge for The Longest Yard, as the producers used many TV sports shows to display their product. The movie was unavoidable if you are a sports fan. Kasey Kahne's NASCAR racer had The Longest Yard paint job on his car. The sports cast on your nightly local news probably had a story. To top it all off, the producers cast Burt Reynolds in a main roll to expand the demographic beyond Sandler and Chris Rock's audience. Reviews were about as strong as expected. Of the 108 critics who saw the movie, only 36 gave it a thumbs up, leading to a not-so-great rotten score of 33% (but its Sandler, so like that matters). The Longest Yard is another film that should play well in the future, at least for the next couple of weeks. For some reason, Hollywood organized three dramas to start June, so expect another healthy weekend for The Longest Yard in the next frame. Fourth spot goes to the hideous Monster-in-Law with J.Lo and J.Fo, as the New Line release grossed $11.1 million over the four-day Memorial Day frame. Still at 3,230 venues, the comedy had a venue average of $3,428. So far, the $40 million film has made an excellent $60.7 million, so expect to see more Meet the Parents clones (and Jane Fonda movies) in the future. If there was any strength in the holdovers, we might have had a record-breaking weekend, but again the weakness of the last few frames rises up and bites the box office in the ass once again. Fifth spot goes to Will Ferrell's Kicking & Screaming, which has not held well versus the blockbuster competition. Down 39% from last weekend's three-day frame, Kicking & Screaming earned $6.6 million over the four-day, and now sits with a disappointing domestic total at $44.2 million. Sixth spot goes to Crash, which is still holding well after four weekends of release, and is the lone bright spot in the lower rungs of the chart. Crash, still very effective counter-programming, earned $6 million over the four days, and was up 8% compared to last weekend's three-day frame, despite shedding 225 venues. This movie was made for $6.5 million, and has now found $36.1 million in box office receipts, making Crash a very good bet for the folks at Lions Gate. The Interpreter finished seventh in a close race this weekend, earning $2.6 million and down only 9% from last weekend's three-day frame. The $80 million Nicole Kidman/Sean Penn thriller has turned into a huge hit overseas, earning as much abroad as it has domestically. The Interpreter currently sits with a North American total of $69.2 million. Unleashed manages to hold on to eighth this weekend, as the Jet Li action flick quickly makes it way out of the top ten. The Rogue Pictures release earned $2.3 million over the long weekend, down an ugly 43% from the previous 3-day frame. After three weekends, Unleashed has earned a not-great $21.9 million, after opening over $10 million. It had a budget of $45 million, however this one should do well overseas, and on DVD. Kingdom of Heaven finishes an embarrassing ninth, and will most likely be out of the top ten next weekend, after only 4 weeks of release. The $130 million film earned $2.2 million over the Memorial Day weekend, and now has a soft domestic total of $45 million. Internationally Kingdom of Heaven is very hot, earning well over $100 million already. Tenth spot goes to horror film House of Wax, which stars Paris Hilton and Elisha Cuthbert. Over the four-day frame, Wax earned a small $1.6 million, and now sits with $29.9 million in domestic sales. Even with the extra day this weekend, House of Wax was still down 50% compared to last weekend's three-day gross. Ouch. Overall this weekend, the top ten couldn't keep up with last year's record breaking pace. The top ten for the Memorial Day weekend 2005 earned a very good $224 million, but that was still off from last year's $237 million. Things shouldn't change next weekend, as the post-Memorial Day frame in 2004 launched Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban to $93.7 million, and 2005 brings the dry Cinderella Man.
  • "Thanatos" wrote in message news:atropos-5602CE.21455318032008@news.giganews.com... > In article > , > TranslucentAmoebae wrote: possession"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/11/mary-ann-busted-with-mary-jane/ responsibility"http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/12/it-wasnt-mary-anns-mary-jane/ > difference? He can't tell you...too drunk.
  • Rick in Oz wrote: > http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/05/20//columnists/scoop//20050520_co > 01_scoop.txt outing > of going mainstream. The Ozzfest message boards have been flooded with hate > mail from metal purists who are wondering how Jada Pinkett Smith's band, > Wicked Wisdom, who last opened for Britney Spears in the U.K., got on the > lineup for the usually all-metal festival. Well, The Sun reports that it was > actually Ozzy's wife Sharon's doing. It seems Sharon and Jada are good > friends. Upset metal diehards are vowing to make life hell for the "Matrix" > star and one posting said Jada and her bandmates should expect to be "pelted > [with] every loose object on the Ozzfest grounds." If they are true OZZY fans, they will respect his wishes. Now, if they are just metal fans, maybe not. I think Oz wants to include musicians that he respects. Its Ozzfest not Metalfest.
  • http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/05/20//columnists/scoop//20050520_co 01_scoop.txt Ozzy fans lash out Ozzy Osbourne fans are accusing the metal icon and his annual Ozzfest outing of going mainstream. The Ozzfest message boards have been flooded with hate mail from metal purists who are wondering how Jada Pinkett Smith's band, Wicked Wisdom, who last opened for Britney Spears in the U.K., got on the lineup for the usually all-metal festival. Well, The Sun reports that it was actually Ozzy's wife Sharon's doing. It seems Sharon and Jada are good friends. Upset metal diehards are vowing to make life hell for the "Matrix" star and one posting said Jada and her bandmates should expect to be "pelted [with] every loose object on the Ozzfest grounds."
  • Rick in Oz wrote in alt.gossip.celebrities: > http://www.wokr13.tv/entertainment/story.aspx?content_id=C31DE875-7 > 4DA-4665- AE17-22945CC80FEA > Smith's film, Set It Off, was marketed only to African-American > audiences. > because Pinkett Smith refused to change the title of the 1996 > thriller - which co-starred rapper Queen Latifah - and ignored his > pleas to target the movie to white viewers. > Queen Latifah, Set it Off. It was like Thelma And Louise, it had a > really powerful emotional base and a point to it. > market it to [African-American] audiences.' A 79-year-old white > woman in the midwest could relate to what those characters were > going through. > It's a studio thing." > How is the title a black title? Is there some lingo I'm not aware of? I skipped it because it starred two marginal actresses. -- Brandy  Alexandre http://www.swydm.com/?refer=BrandyAlx Well, would you? --- Why are people with closed minds first to open their mouths?
  • Berry claws her way to the bottom By Renée Graham, Globe Staff | July 27, 2004 Is there some unwritten rule that after winning a leading-role Academy Award, actors and actresses have to make a string of lousy movies? Oh, there are those who don't let the gold statuette cloud their ability to choose worthwhile s. Tom Hanks followed his back-to-back wins for "Philadelphia" and "Forrest Gump" with such hits as "Apollo 13," "Toy Story," and "Saving Private Ryan." And all Katharine Hepburn did after winning her second Oscar for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," was win two more, for "The Lion in Winter" and "On Golden Pond." But then there's Nicolas Cage, who, after garnering a best actor trophy for "Leaving Las Vegas," has made enough odious movies to overflow a landfill, including "Snake Eyes," "Gone in 60 Seconds," and "Captain Corelli's Mandolin." Julia Roberts walked away with a best actress Oscar for "Erin Brockovich" in 2001 and has since muddied up her filmography with such dreck as "Mona Lisa Smile" and "The Mexican." And two-time winner Kevin Spacey, well, let's not even get into Kevin Spacey. To that list, let us now add 2002 best actress winner Halle Berry, currently sifting through the unsalvageable remnants of her latest box-office bomb, "Catwoman." One of the year's worst reviewed films, "Catwoman," which cost nearly $90 million to make, earned a relatively paltry $17 million in its opening weekend and debuted at No. 3. Compare that to Matt Damon's "Bourne Supremacy," which cost about $75 million and garnered $53.5 million during its first three days of release. "We're a little disappointed," admitted Dan Fellman, president of domestic theatrical distribution at Warner Bros., which released the film. But studio executives certainly can't be any more disappointed than Berry, who accepted a project that was wisely declined by Ashley Judd and Nicole Kidman. "Catwoman," whose filmmakers substitute Berry sashaying about in dominatrix loungewear for any semblance of a plot, is Berry's second high-profile flop since she won the Oscar in 2002 for her performance in "Monster's Ball." It follows last year's "Gothika," a dismal and downright stupid thriller. Yes, Berry has also starred in two recent hits, 2002's "Die Another Day" and 2003's "X2," but both films were the latest installments of proven franchises that probably would have succeeded without Berry's presence. (And let's face it -- the "X-Men" movies, like the Marvel comic book series on which they are based, are all about Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, not Berry's Storm.) What Berry has been doing is squandering an Oscar moment that, during her speech, she called "so much bigger than me." In becoming the first African-American woman to win a best lead actress award, she accepted her trophy on behalf of Dorothy Dandridge, the first black best-actress nominee for her performance in 1954's "Carmen Jones," as well as on behalf of veteran actresses Lena Horne and Diahann Carroll. Berry also mentioned her contemporaries Jada Pinkett Smith, Angela Bassett, and Vivica A. Fox and said the award was "for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened." Two years after Berry's tear-soaked speech, it's difficult to imagine exactly what door Berry opened, especially for herself, as her taste in s has been as questionable as her taste in husbands. With her Oscar win, Berry seemed poised to become Hollywood's first bankable black actress, someone who could compete with Kidman and Renee Zellweger for the best parts. Instead, she has chased unchallenging, poorly conceived parts in laughably bad films that have enhanced neither her box-office viability nor her career as a worthwhile actress. After years as one of Hollywood's most beautiful women, Berry took the emotionally strenuous role of a grieving wife and mother in "Monster's Ball." Downplaying her looks (although there was a much-discussed sex scene with costar Billy Bob Thornton), she was suddenly regarded as a fine actress with more range than she had ever before displayed on the big screen. Perhaps Berry isn't best suited for big Hollywood films. "Monster's Ball" was an indie film, and Berry has often been at her best in TV movies, especially HBO's "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge," which won Berry a mantel's worth of awards and helped set the stage for her historic Academy Award win. Berry's career redemption may be in the works. She's currently filming an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," produced by Oprah Winfrey's company with a by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Playing the challenging role of Janie, one of 20th-century American literature's great heroines, could be exactly what Berry needs to remind people that she won her Oscar not because Hollywood bowed to political correctness, but because she deserved it. Renee Graham's Life in the Pop Lane column runs on Tuesdays. She can be reached at graham@globe.com. © Copyright 2004 Globe Newspaper Company. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • NY DAILY NEWS....JACK MATTHEWS COLLATERAL With Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx. Director: Michael Mann (1:59) R: Violence, language. Tom Cruise has played vile characters before, notably in "Vanilla Sky" and "Interview With the Vampire." But in Michael Mann's urban thriller "Collateral," he slips into the role of a sociopathic killer. I have to say, it suits him. As Vincent, a natty, methodical hit man carrying out five assignments during one graveyard shift in Los Angeles, Cruise is as cool and sleek as a bullet. He allows just enough of his camera-ready mannerisms to break the surface of Vincent's icy demeanor to keep us in on the casting joke being played. In fact, the whole movie is something of a joke, a feature-length prank that mixes stark violence and shock humor in the mold of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction." Though it is a far less ambitious entertainment than Tarantino's masterpiece, it has its moments. Take Vinny's first kill. After making a deal with genial cab driver Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx) to chauffeur him around all night, the hit man disappears into an apartment building somewhere in West Los Angeles while we stay in the car with the driver. Max, a dreamer who envisions bigger things for himself than 12 years of hacking has delivered, is passing the time reading a Mercedes brochure and eating a sandwich when a man's body lands on the top of his car, with his face pressed against the broken windshield. The suddenness of the event and Max's hysterical reaction to it prompt a reflexive laugh from the audience. But there's more. "You killed him?" a shaken Max asks when Vincent re-appears. "No, I shot him," Vincent says, glancing at the upstairs window through which his victim fell. "The bullets and the fall killed him." That Max could be persuaded by Vincent's threats to continue driving him around, ignoring every opportunity to escape, requires a suspension of disbelief we usually reserve for science-fiction films and romantic comedies in which beautiful young women fall in love with Woody Allen. But the tension between the cold-blooded killer and the warm-blooded taxi driver is the whole point of the film, and odd though the casting seems, Cruise and Foxx play it beautifully. Except for the bookend appearances of Jada Pinkett Smith as a federal prosecutor befriended by Max during a ride earlier in the evening, "Collateral" is essentially a two-character piece played in and around the dented yellow-and-red cab. Mann and screenwriter Stuart Beattie occasionally check in with an LAPD homicide detective (Mark Ruffalo), who, while following Vincent's trail of victims, begins to figure out who else might be on his list. That the audience can figure it out before the cop does is the nature of the modern thriller, which prescribes a certain kind of ending. But even its predictability is made forgivable by the performances of the two stars and the pace of the action.
  • http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12926374,00.html HALLE IN SECURITY DUST-UP Bond babe Halle Berry has been barred from the premiere of her latest movie, with bouncers turning her away at the door. The Oscar-winning star found herself rowing with doormen as she arrived at a Los Angeles cinema for the screening of Gothika. But the Hollywood beauty, wearing an elegant tangerine dress, found she was on the receiving end of an MTV stunt. Berry was the victim of the music station's show Punk'd, which plays pranks on celebrities. The show's host Ashton Kutcher - toyboy lover of Demi Moore - was grinning in the background as Berry tried to talk her way in. Other stars who have been at the stinging end of the show have include Justin Timberlake, Pink and Kelly Osbourne. Also at the premiere were fellow Gothika stars Penelope Cruz and Robert Downey Jr, as well as Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett. In the film, Berry plays a criminal psychologist who finds herself in a mental institution with no memory of a murder she has apparently committed. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_a rticle_id=337032&in_page_id=1773&in_a_source= Will: Ask your wife before you cheat on her by RICHARD SIMPSON, Daily Mail 08:15am 8th February 2005 Will and Jada: He claims he and his wife behave like newlyweds Many Hollywood marriages are on the rocks in the time it takes to make a movie. Will Smith has come up with a highly unconventional way of trying to ensure that his marriage to Jada Pinkett Smith doesn't go the same way. His solution? When you want to cheat with one of your costars, get permission from your partner first. The Men In Black star and his wife say they have agreed a pact that it is all right to sleep with someone else, as long as it isn't behind the back of the person you love. They researched the subject by meeting up with high-profile couples who have split - including the likes of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and Bruce Willis and Demi Moore - to find out what went wrong. "Our perspective is, you don't avoid what's natural," said Smith. "You're going to be attracted to people. In our marriage vows, we didn't say "forsaking all others". "The vow that we made was that you will never hear that I did something after the fact. "If it came down to it, then one can say to the other, 'Look, I need to have sex with somebody. "I'm not going to if you don't approve of it - but please approve of it'." Smith said he was forced to admit he had sexual feelings for other women when working on his film Hitch, in which he stars with Eva Mendes, who he described as 'freaking gorgeous'. Despite his attraction to Miss Mendes, Smith insists that his marriage is still strong - and that he and Jada still behave like newlyweds. Smith, who has been married to his second wife for seven years, added: "I don't let a day go past that Jada doesn't feel like the Queen of the World. "I make sure every single day that she knows how I feel about her." He did, however, admit that the couple have been shaken by the break-up of other Hollywood couples. They try to find out what went wrong so they can learn from their mistakes. "Every time somebody in Hollywood breaks up, Jada and I go and find out why," said Smith. "With Bruce and Demi, we spent hours talking to them. And Tom and Nicole - hours, just trying to understand what happened." Smith, 36, one of Hollywood's most high-profile action stars, has suggested that he will not be able to play those roles for too many more years. "My body definitely doesn't feel the same as it used to," he said. He feels compelled to work hard to stay in shape. "It's kind of a game that I play with myself," he said. "When everybody else is tired and going home at the end of the day, I need to know that I'm the one person that's going to the gym. "I need that mindset because I've been successful, and it's easy to get lazy. "Once you start to slip physically, you're going to slip mentally." His fitness regime includes lifting weights and running three miles four or five times a week. Smith began his entertainment career as a teenage rapper, a skill which won him a Grammy. He went on to appear in the TV sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air for six years and progressed on to films such as Independence Day. His wife, who stands barely 5ft tall, has appeared in The Nutty Professor and Kingdom Come. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • AP LOS ANGELES — Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's former housekeeper is suing the celebrity couple for allegedly failing to pay her about 1,640 hours of overtime pay and firing her after she complained to them. In a lawsuit filed Sept. 11 in Ventura Superior Court, Marilu Cooley said she worked for the Smiths and lived on their estate for 4 1/2 years. She said during that time she often worked more than 40 hours a week and received overtime pay during her first two years of employment. But starting in March 1999, Cooley alleged the Smiths stopped paying her overtime and instead promised to pay her a $25,000 annual bonus. Cooley said she never received the bonus and, after she complained about it, the Smiths fired her in October 2001. The lawsuit says Cooley received $1,000 a week but didn't say how much she earned in overtime pay. Cooley was seeking at least $175,000 in damages, according to the lawsuit. Calls to Cooley's attorney, Stephan Math, and the attorney for the Smiths, Jason Sloane, were not immediately returned Thursday.
  • NY DAILY NEWS By REBECCA LOUIE Sometimes, ego drives actors to do it. Other times, they just want to rock. But for Minnie Driver, recording an album was an act of self-preservation. "There were some big personal changes going on in my life about three years ago and I needed to deal," says the "Good Will Hunting" star, referring in part to her 2001 split from fiancé Josh Brolin, the stepson of Barbra Streisand. "I was at a pretty low point in my life and writing songs, writing in my journal, whatever, was a cheap form of therapy," she says. "All anyone needs to do to get on with their life is just stop, look at it, deal with it, and move on." The result is the 11-song album "Everything I've Got in My Pocket," in stores Tuesday. "It has that airy, ethereal quality that reminds me of old Mazzy Star and Cowboy Junkie records," says Dave Itzkoff, associate editor at Spin magazine. "I don't see this outselling Ashlee Simpson, but if they push it to the adult contemporary stations, I think that it could catch on." Composed during soul-searching, songwriting binges in Hawaii, Austin and Los Angeles, "Pocket" is filled with heartbreak. On "So Well," Driver laments, "I will put your pictures in a wooden box / I will find a heart next time with fewer locks." But there's also hope - "I know you're sad, but it won't last," she breathes on the title track. The collection of narrative ballads reveals an artist on the mend - and ready for new beginnings. On "Home," she lovingly sings to a child about the wonders of the world. At 33, Driver now longs for motherhood - regardless of her marital status. "I'm not longing for marriage, per se," says Driver, who in addition to Brolin has been linked to John Cusack, Harrison Ford and Matt Damon (who famously dumped her on "The Oprah Winfrey Show"). Brolin has since moved on to marry actress Diane Lane. "I have kind of rethought marriage, but I like the notion of family," she says. "I couldn't have been anybody's mother five years ago. Then, I was still looking to my mother to help me and fix me and do all of this stuff. "But being older, not being in this whole whirlwind of press and craziness and this guy and whatever, it's suddenly a slower pulse. I can turn attention to the idea of being a mother." Born in London and raised in Barbados, Driver began singing in her school chorus when she was 8 years old. She had a brief record deal with Island Records as part of a group called Puff, Rocks and Brown, but her burgeoning acting career, fueled by the success of the 1995 Irish-coming of age film "Circle of Friends," diverted her attention. After receiving an Academy Award nomination for "Good Will Hunting" in 1998, she made a string of choices that received scant attention at the box office, including the flood film "Hard Rain" and the David Duchovny romance "Return to Me." She returns to the big screen this winter in the film adaptation of Broadway's "The Phantom of the Opera," in which she lip-synchs the part of the opera diva Carlotta. "I can sing a 'Chicago' or a 'Carbaret,' but not that kind of overblown opera voice," she admits. Though actors such as Keanu Reeves, Russell Crowe, Jada Pinkett Smith and Juliette Lewis have all been panned by the press for attempting the leap to music, Driver remains undaunted. Filled with a passion to write, she taught herself the guitar and took lyrical cues from favorite singer-storytellers like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Dolly Parton and Johnny Cash. "Pocket" even includes a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart." "I am never going to stop looking for avenues of creative expression," says Driver. "I refuse to put myself in the box that people feel comfortable putting other people into. I was always going to do this, long before I was a successful actress." Driver knocked on many doors while searching for a record deal, which finally came from EMI after she performed in Austin at the South by Southwest Festival earlier this year. "At that point we started getting calls from people who wouldn't take our calls before, like 'Is the ink dry? Can we talk about this?'" says Driver. "It was like, no dude. You just so had your chance." With a mischievous chuckle she adds, "They're sorry now."
  • http://heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,10187414%255E2902,00.h tml Breaking into song: Will Smith takes to the microphone at the Australian premiere of his movie I, Robot in Sydney. Picture: Stephen Cooper Robot movie unleashes free Will Michael Bodey 20jul04 WILL Smith just can't stop laughing. His latest film, I, Robot, has performed well above expectations in North America, earning half its $150 million budget in its first weekend. Not that it's about the money. "It's great when a film can be financially successful, but it's so about the artistry," he said before breaking into his trademark chuckle. "To me the artistry and the box office go hand in hand. There's a Hollywood fallacy that great films make no money and bad films make a ton. I kind of disagree with that." So Bad Boys 2? "That's on the other side," he laughed. "Strictly about the money." Smith is used to big box office. He's as reliable a draw as Tom Hanks, Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise. And I, Robot's opening weekend is the biggest of his career, unexpectedly given Alex Proyas's sci-fi film is "a small art film wrapped in blockbuster package". "It feels great to be able to say that I, Robot is my biggest opening when people know that I made Men In Black, Men In Black 2 and Independence Day. That feels great to me." Already there's talk of a sequel to the adaptation of Isaac Asimov's story of a futuristic world in which robots develop logic and take control. "It's almost a second weekend kind of decision," said Smith. "The first weekend, the general belief is, tells you the strength of the actor and the second weekend tells you the strength of the film." That suggests Smith is huge. He grins, preferring to suggest the film offers something more. "I think the audience has grown up, particularly the American film audience, to a point where you can't just blow stuff up any more and expect to have a hit." If there is a sequel, you can bet there won't be any misunderstandings about Smith not wanting to film in Sydney. He was chastised for apparently taking I, Robot to Vancouver rather than keep it in Proyas's hometown, Sydney, because he was bored when his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith, filmed The Matrix trilogy there. Both Proyas and Smith say studio space and budget constraints were the real reason. "The issue became strictly financial -- brass tacks," Smith said. "We had a house here for a month and loved it." From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • NY DAILY NEWS...RUSH AND MOLLOY Gwyneth Paltrow's ears must be burning, and it's not another one of those Chinese medical treatments. In "PX," a new book about the glittery restaurant scene, author and former maitre d' Abbe Diaz says the actress was one nasty customer. "She came into all my restaurants," says Diaz, who toiled at such hot spots as 66, the Park, Mercer Kitchen, Lotus, Coffee Shop and Cafe Tabac. "With her, I was invisible. I wasn't there, even though I was the one attending to her personally. She didn't even acknowledge my presence. I thought it was kind of rude." The blog-like book, named after the restaurant code for VIP, also carps about restaurateurs Brian McNally and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, but says nice things about Paltrow ex Ben Affleck, Pamela Anderson and Chris Rock. Diaz, now designing her Geld Iaz line, continues to chart her life at www.pxthis.com. She's still in restaurants every night - not as an employee, but with her boyfriend, Marc Bagutta, who owns SoHo's Bagutta Life (where Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith and Kim Porter are regular shoppers). When Diaz goes out, you can bet she tips big.
  • NY POST...PAGE 6 TOM Cruise is still single, but he became an instant fan the other night of comely rocker Joss Stone. Cruise and his sister-cum-publicist LeeAnne Devett showed up at Avalon in Hollywood to catch his pal Jada Pinkett Smith perform. After Pinkett Smith went on, Cruise stuck around to watch British soul singer Stone. "He watched the entire set, unmoving," said our witness, adding that Cruise later followed Stone to her dressing room to get to know her better.
  • http://canoe.ca/JamMovies/aug4_foxx-sun.html He's crazy like a Foxx Former funnyman getting serious buzz By KEVIN WILLIAMSON -- Calgary Sun HOLLYWOOD -- From self-professed Lionel Richie wannabe to stand-up comedian, Jamie Foxx has taken as many detours as the tormented taxi-driver he plays in Collateral. Yet if you believe that effusive, inescapable and ethereal thing they call "buzz" in Hollywood, Foxx's final stop may be with Oscar -- thanks to a said-to-be show-stopping turn as late music giant Ray Charles in the forthcoming biopic Ray, due out later this year. Of course, starring as the cabbie who totes around Tom Cruise's hitman in director Michael Mann's thriller, opening Friday, doesn't hurt either -- particularly because Foxx won the role despite competition from such heavy-hitters as Adam Sandler (himself, interestingly, a comedian who has also indicated an appetite for dramatic work). Foxx -- who's spent recent days promoting Collateral to worldwide media alongside Cruise, Mann and his Collateral love interest Jada Pinkett Smith -- has heard the talk, both from press and industry insiders, that this is his "coming-out" year. Collateral, a designated box-office success in which he receives top billing alongside the globe's biggest movie star, is merely his arrival at the party. Ray, which will premiere at next month's Toronto International Film Festival, is his coronation. It's the kind of talk that makes most actors nervous, even tense, when it's discussed -- either because they don't want to tempt fate or, worse, sound cocky or, even worse, too excited (i.e.: desperate, which people in the industry hate because it reminds them of their own insecurities) to the Academy Award voters who decide such lofty matters. Foxx, though, doesn't hesitate when the O-word is brought up. "A lot of people say, 'You'll jinx it, don't say it,' but I say, 'Say it.' If you're playing basketball and you're in the Lakers, you want to go to the championships and (the Oscars) are the equivalent of going to the championships. "Is that the only reason you do your career? No. I'm one of the luckiest people on the planet. L.A. is buzzing. I've got billboards up on Highland and Sunset -- that's people acknowledging me. I hosted the ESPY (Awards) and Tom Cruise was there, Denzel (Washington), Sharon Stone. At the end of the day, it's not about how much money or the awards -- it's the moments and the marks that you leave and the admiration of those people you were looking up to at the start of your career. That's what makes it good for me so I'm just going to keep riding it." It's all the more remarkable because for most of his career -- in fact, up until his supporting roles as a quarterback in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday as Drew "Bundini" Brown in Mann's Ali -- Foxx was known best as a comic, and particularly from the groundbreaking television comedy In Living Color, which launched the careers of the Wayans brothers as well as Jim Carrey. "Talent is talent," Cruise says about his co-star. "You look at Foxx and you talk about him as a stand-up comedian, but before that, he's a classically trained musician and a singer and songwriter. Seriously, you should hear his music. And when he creates comedy, he has this insight into people. He's played dramatic roles before, but he's carrying the movie here." As he does in Ray, a role in which Foxx will presumably showcase both his musical gifts and the knack for impersonation that has been key to so much of his comedy. If there is a bitter sidenote to the movie's debut, it's that Charles, who died in June, won't be there for its release. "Ray Charles got a chance to view the movie his own way before he passed away, so people should know that," Foxx says. "His story is not a hard story to tell because Ray Charles was a great man." Certainly Charles and Max, his Collateral cabbie, are as divergent as two characters could be. While Charles was a consummate showman, Max is terminally unfulfilled, someone who's literally watching his life go by. When Cruise's ruthless assassin, Vincent, enters Max's cab -- and life -- his first reaction to witnessing a murder isn't to get to the police, but merely get away. "The one thing I drew upon in the black experience for Max is, 'I don't want to tell on you, I just want to go home.' There is this thing about calling the cops as a black man," Foxx says. "My neighbour's alarm goes off and I call the cops and they come get me ... Max is exhausted, he doesn't want anything good or bad to happen." Foxx himself couldn't be more different -- especially since he acknowledges he owes at least some of his success to timing. Born Eric Bishop, the 36-year-old actor recalls that, growing up, he saw little opportunity for black actors. "In the '70s, it was Richard Pryor. In the '80s, it was just Eddie Murphy. Then things started to open up in the '90s, there was Will (Smith) and Denzel ... I've been lucky enough to have (these opportunities in dramatic films)," he says, then adding, "I was going to be the next Lionel Richie." This revelation elicits a personal request from Cruise, who's been listening. "Can you give us some Lionel?" Cruise asks. Foxx complies with a few bars of Hello. If the next few months turn out for Foxx as many here expect, it will likely be the last time he takes requests from anyone. From Sunny Oz, Rick :) Proud Keeper of the talented & beautiful Halle Berry.
  • Syndicated columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith Looks like Will Smith will be lending his voice to wife Jada Pinkett Smith's first album -- which the actress and would-be pop star is actually cutting now, even as she exec-produces the WB sitcom "All of Us" and preps to begin filming the big-screen "Collateral" with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx this month. Says Mrs. Smith, "We did a song together on Will's album and we'll definitely record together again. He wants to come in and do something on mine, so that'll be the next thing." Jada tells us that one reason she can handle so many tasks is her ability to bring her kids along wherever she goes. "My son is five and my daughter is going to be three on October 31. They're doing really well." And how is it bringing them to recording sessions? "My son does very well with it. He's in the studio quite often with Will and me. Jaden has a really, really relaxed personality. We've always been able to take Jaden anywhere. My daughter (Willow), on the other hand, is a ball of energy and it's different," admits Jada, a ball of energy herself, with a laugh. "There are times she can't come." Syndicated columnists Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith are featured on E!Online under the daily "Ask Marilyn" column and in monthly celebrity profiles and industry features.
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