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send your ?'s in now!!!! and make em good!

nice kwame is a dope ol skool guy

you know will and jeff may be performing all through europe on the i robot promo tour..so look out 4 them in your town!

[quote=Da Brakes,Jul 13 2004, 11:44 PM]Ha HA!! Enjoy it if it is!! Let us know if Will does any NEW material!![/quote] thanks yeah it is happening i may get to do an interview..at the very least i'll have photos..and a story to tell :thumb:

yo i did my own megamix if y'all wanna here [url="http://www.jazzyjefffreshprince.com/audio/jjhradmix.mp3"]JJFP MegaMix[/url]

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excuse me while i lose my mind :eek4: :bounce: :speechless: :dance: :dance: :highfive: this article better be true!

im gonna see jjfp live AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THROWS SELF OUT WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes: :ohnoes:

Will set for rap reunion Will Smith heads our way to promote his new robot movie - and hang out with his old rappin' buddy Jazzy Jeff 14jul04 FINALLY - a Hollywood superstar is coming to Melbourne. Oscar nominee Will Smith will be in town next Tuesday to promote his latest movie, I, Robot. Smith will jet into Sydney on Monday to walk the red carpet at the film's Australian premiere. There he'll be reunited with his old rappin' buddy, DJ Jazzy Jeff (real name Jeffrey Townes) for a special performance. For those of us old enough to remember, the duo rolled out hits such as Parents Just Don't Understand and Boom! Shake The Room. Townes also starred opposite Smith in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (he played Will's mate Jazz). Townes is set to come to Melbourne with Smith, but isn't scheduled to perform here. Antonio Banderas (sigh) bypassed Melbourne, as did OutKast's Andre 3000 and Usher, while King Arthur star Ioan Gruffudd was here and gone in a flash. Film poppets Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Keisha Castle-Hughes just didn't come to Australia at all. Smith, who will be travelling without wife Jada Pinkett Smith, leaves Australia on Wednesday. I, Robot opens on July 22.

yo im flying up to sydney to see big willie rock the house :dancingcool: :dancingcool: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: :jig: :jig:

monday july 19 @ hoyts fox studios from 6pm ..in sydney!!! god damn..should i drive up 2 see will :eek4:

these are the release dates in these countries moscow 5th august berlin 5th august stockholm 4th august paris 28th july amsterdam 5th august so id say his performing 4th -5th august or that week

about.com interview in the movie forum :nana:

hieroglyphics would rip all them cats to shreds!!! in fact they invented the styles in 93 that most rappers use these days

i think you guys are totally underestimating the ol skool fans out there...there is a lot of us who are still alive believe it or not! and we are waiting 4 somethin dope!!! id rather will sell a million records to older knowledgable fans ..than get with whoever is hot right now and sell 5 million to sum kids who dont know Sh%$ :touche:

I, Robot In my five years as a journalist, one of the few major stars I had never gotten to interview was Will Smith. It’s not that he was inaccessible. He just usually did his press junkets in New York on dates that I couldn’t travel. Now that he came to L.A. to promote I, Robot, I finally got to interview the Fresh Prince. And I call him that out of utmost respect for his early work in rap and sitcom. I, Robot casts Smith as a detective in a future where robots roam the streets. We own them to perform our daily tasks. But he suspects one robot of murder, which is unheard of in a world where the laws of robotics scientifically prevent robots from harming humans. Smith is as funny in person as he comes across in his movies. His random jokes in the middle of serious answers may not come across as well in print, but please understand that he took the nudity answer as seriously as he did his joke about digitally removing his enormous manhood. What’s your favorite catch phrase from all of your movies? I try to get something memorable in all of them. I guess the one that people say back to me the most is, “You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look good.” That one went over well. Do you ever get tired of doing these big summer blockbusters? Well my son just told me, he saw the movie about two weeks ago and he said, “Whoa, dad, I loved that! But, uh, don’t save the world any more.” What makes I Robot different from your other action and sci-fi movies? I loved the blend of genres. It’s a mystery, which is supposed to clash with an action movie. Mystery and action, they kind of don’t blend well because the pace of a mystery is a little slower, and you’ve kind of got to discover things, and then there is the action movie element that I love that is not really overdone. The action sequences go on as long as they’re supposed to go on, and then right after that you’re into the drama of it, and I think that there are just so many different things going on in this film and very, very rarely do you get an opportunity in an action movie to tell the story of a little girl dying and how that affected you, and take six minutes of screen time to tell the story. And I just loved the idea, the gamble of making this kind of movie, because it’s actually a small art film that is masquerading as a big summer blockbuster. Like the interrogation scene of Sonny, I was looking at that scene last night. You can’t compare that to anything. There’s no other movie where you have that level of emotion and connection with a detective interrogating a robot, without it being silly. I love the film and hope that people can connect to it. Was your nude scene essential to the plot? Oh, absolutely. And that’s what I loved about being able to make this movie and work with the people that I worked with. My character suffers from a psychological condition called survivor’s guilt. You know, someone has experienced an accident and you have survivor’s guilt. I sent the script to a group of psychologists and asked them to tell me what would this character’s behavior be, and they said paranoia was one of the things. So he left the shower door open, no curtain, with the gun hanging over the thing and they said he would never be able to wash his hair because he wouldn’t close his eyes in the shower. So it was those types of things. You probably have got to have a degree in psychology to pick all of that out of it, but it gives it a certain level of reality when you know that that much thought went into it, and even if you don’t it’s just kind of a cool naked guy. Will you do more nude scenes in the future? It’s interesting, because America is the only place that it’s really a big deal. Actually, the scene in this movie was full frontal nudity, but they had to digitally remove it. Yeah, it was the most expensive CGI shot in the movie. [Laughs]. But for an American audience, I saw Bad Lieutenant with Harvey Keitel. I will never be that good an actor. I just will never be that good an actor. I looked at that scene and Harvey Keitel is just standing there butt naked, and it’s almost like the attitude is like, “Yeah. Look at this here.” I’ll never be that good an actor. How do you stay so buff? Oh, I train at lunch or after work, three, four, five times a week. It’s kind of a game that I play with myself. At the end of the day everybody is tired, and everybody is going home. I need to know that I am the one person that is going to the gym. It’s just that I need that mindset because I’ve been successful financially. It’s easy to get lazy, and then once you start to slip physically, you’re going to start to slip mentally and then inevitably you’re going to slip creatively, so I start with my body and my mind and it keeps my creativity [going]. Does Jada feel pressure to keep up with your workout routine? She just needs to keep up, you know? Jada’s not going out like that. She watched the scene last night, and went right to the gym this morning. She was like, “Nope, you’re not catching me out there.” Doesn’t she still have her Matrix training? Oh yeah, but it’s easy to slip out of shape though. She watched the thing last night, and she went right to the gym first thing this morning. We call the younger guys that might try to come and get Jada, we call them Thundercats, and the girls that would be trying to come see me, we call them Thunderkittens. So Jada was like, “All them Thunderkittens got to see my man last night. I’ve got to go get it together.” How did the special effects in I, Robot compare to your other movies? Well, they will put a tennis ball or something there and somebody actually as joke started printing out robot faces, so they would just tack a robot face up there. Really, the thing that they need is the eye line, they just need you to be looking at the right place that eventually the eyes will be. It would have been impossible in a scene like the interrogation scene, because that scene is so much about the interaction, and fortunately Alan Tudyk, who played Sonny, we had the opportunity to actually play out a scene, work a scene and rehearse a scene and do it like actors. It was like the process that they did for Gollum on The Lord of the Rings. There was actually a person there in a green suit and then they just replaced the person. Even the fighting scenes, in the fighting scenes there was no [other person], and we worked the scene out with stunt men, so I did it and I learned all of the moves where everybody would be, and learned all of that stuff, and then I’m doing it by myself. If you see that, it would be the perfect tabloid videotape that Will Smith has lost his damn mind. I’m by myself [fighting] and it just looks bizarre. At least you don’t get hurt. The thing that’s crazy is that you actually hurt yourself more when there is no one there, because what happens is when you throw a punch, you need the contact to stop your shoulder from popping out, and a lot of times you get hyperextensions in the elbows and all of that stuff so you actually hurt yourself more when you’re not actually making contact with anything because you have to throw it and then you have to stop it yourself also. Are you technophobic like this character? No, I am strictly the future. I need every single gadget that I could possibly have. I need the latest Panther or Jaguar, whatever the latest thing is, the newest Ipod, I can’t have the old one, all of that stuff. I need to have everything. I need all of the latest gadgets. There’s a music program called Reason that connects to another music program called ProTools. I have an album coming out for Christmas, and I just recorded my first single from inception, creating the music, laying the vocals, everything in a hotel room, and mixed it on my laptop on a plane flying back to L.A. And it’s just insane to me. I burned a CD, so I have a CD of the record, of everything in my laptop, and that it’s come to that point is just beautiful to me. Will you go on tour again? I’ll be doing the I, Robot tour, and I’ll be performing on the tour. I’m performing in Moscow, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, and somewhere else. There’s six [spots]. 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Will Smith Advises Teens To Dump Delinquent Friends July 13, 2004 - World Entertainment News Network Hollywood actor Will Smith is advising teens to dump their delinquent pals if they're serious about getting ahead in the world. The Men In Black star, a father of three, believes today's youngsters should shun peer pressure to hold themselves back by making big changes in their social circles. He says, "The best thing that anybody ever said to me is that you're only as good as the people you associate with. Look at the five friends that you spend the most time with - that's who you are. "When I was a kid, I looked around and wasn't very impressed. If you're the smartest person in your squad, then you need a new squad. Be around people you want to be like or who will advance you."

Will Smith knows action formula must evolve if he's to stay on top BY JOE NEUMAIER New York Daily News Summertime is synonymous with Will Smith. Starting with "Independence Day" in 1996, the 35-year-old actor has starred in a bunch of big-budget action-adventure films released in prime blockbuster slots in early July. His latest, "I, Robot," opens Friday. While there's more to Smith than his solar-powered smile and thermonuclear charm, he knows what season works best for his brand of star power. "There's a connection I have with summer audiences - I know what this time of year means at the movies, I know what people are doing with their families, and I know what they need to start off their vacations," says Smith. "It's been July 4 for a lot of years - that's Big Willie Weekend! People feel they're in good hands. I know what they want." He isn't about to upset the apple cart. Though Smith was Oscar-nominated for his performance as Muhammad Ali in 2001's "Ali," and has given good performances in such serious movies as "Six Degrees of Separation" and "The Legend of Bagger Vance," if he harbors unsatisfied creative yearnings, he's keeping them to himself. Sequels like "Men in Black II" and "Bad Boys II" further suggest Hollywood doesn't want the star to stray far from his successful formula. Smith says only the physical strain of action films may force him to give up the genre by the time he hits his 40s. Rather than feeling limited, he says he's adding subtext to his blockbusters. "As I get older, it's going to be a necessity to have ideas in these films - you can only save the world so many times before people start saying `All right buddy, we got it,'" he says. "Audiences are going to reject action movies where you just blow stuff up and a guy looks cool. These films need to be intellectually stimulating. "After `Ali,' I went back to (action films), back to that comfort. Some people, once they get an Oscar nomination, they get the bug to only do serious films. For me, I know I'll have time for that, so I didn't want to lose my connection to the youngster in me. "I feel confident at this point that I can pretty much do what I want. I've found a comfortable creative freedom. It's my decision which side of myself to show." "I, Robot," based loosely on Isaac Asimov's 1950 short-story collection, reflects Smith's desire to make an adventure that takes place in a murkier moral universe. He plays a Chicago detective in 2035, who investigates a robot accused of murder. Like "Blade Runner" and "Minority Report," the film touches on the idea of whether it's emotion, intelligence or violence that makes humans unique. Nelson George, author of "Buppies, B-Boys, Baps, and Bohos: Notes on Post-Soul Black Culture," says that Smith occupies a unique place in pop culture. "He almost has a Bill Clinton quality - that big, very accessible personality," says George. "You feel drawn in. He's also become a man, and when he does finally have a romance on screen, he'll lose any remainder of that young-guy thing. "There haven't been many black performers like him - there's nothing brooding about him, you don't feel any anger, the same as when he first made music in the `80s. People are attracted to his aura. There may be dark corners to Will, but you don't see them." Born in 1968 and reared in a suburb of Philadelphia, Smith dabbled in music as a kid. At 16, he and his friend Jeff Townes began performing as DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - a high-school teacher gave Smith the nickname "Prince" because of his ability to charm himself out of trouble. The duo released an album, "Rock the House," in 1987; their second, 1989's "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper," contained the single "Parents Just Don't Understand," which earned the first Best Rap Performance Grammy award. Producer Quincy Jones and series creator Benny Medina tapped Smith for "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," which aired on NBC from 1990 to 1996. Smith had a small role as a homeless teen in 1992's "Where the Day Takes You," then got excellent reviews as a gay charlatan who smooth-talks a New York art world couple in "Six Degrees of Separation." In 1995's "Bad Boys," he was second-billed behind comic Martin Lawrence, but by 1996, when he starred as a smart-aleck Army pilot who saves the world from aliens in "Independence Day," Smith had found his game. "I'm not a long-range kind of guy - I'm a one-step-at-a-time guy, making each step as perfect as I can," says Smith. "I have a sense of what direction I'm going in, and then I put my head down and barrel forward. Will Smith Born: Sept. 28, 1968, in Philadelphia. Parents: Willard Smith Sr., refrigerator repairman; Caroline Smith, school board employee. Siblings: Pam; Ellen and Harry (twins). Education: Archbishop Carroll High School, Radnor, Pa.; Overbrook High School, Wynnefield, Pa.; Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School, Philadelphia. Wives: Sheree Zampino (b. 1969), actress; married 1992, divorced 1995. Jada Pinkett Smith (b. 1971), actress; married 1997. Children: Willard (Trey) Smith III, 11, with Sheree Zampino; Jaden Chistopher Syre Smith, 6; Willow Camille Reign Smith, 4; both with Jada Pinkett Smith. TV Debut: "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" (NBC, 1990). Music debut: "Girls Ain't Nothin' But Trouble," with DJ Jazzy Jeff, under the pseudonym Fresh Prince (1986). Film Debut: "Where the Day Takes You" (1992). Key Films: "Made in America" (1993), "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993), "Bad Boys" (1995), "Independence Day" (1996), "Men in Black" (1997), "Enemy of the State" (1998), "Wild Wild West" (1999), "The Legend of Bagger Vance" (2000), "Ali" (2001), "Men in Black II" (2002), "Bad Boys II" (2003). "The bottom line in this business is, the person who pays the most attention and studies the hardest wins. And I refuse to let someone work harder than me. When people in Hollywood said I couldn't star in `Independence Day' because black actors don't translate internationally, that spurred me on. I thought, `I'll take that fight.'" In 1997, he released his first solo album, "Big Willie Style," which won another Grammy, and co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones in the hit "Men in Black." On New Year's Eve that year, Smith married actress Jada Pinkett ("The Matrix Reloaded," "The Nutty Professor"), whom he met when she auditioned for a role on "Fresh Prince." The two were friends through Smith's three-year marriage to actress Sheree Zampino, whom he divorced in 1995 and with whom he has a son, Trey, now 11. Smith had another hit with the techno-political thriller "Enemy of the State" in 1998. His ironic smile enabled him to transcend the action genre. An Everyman whose jokey bantering was an invitation to a good time, he became the coolest black actor around at a time when Chris Rock was mainly known for comedy, Wesley Snipes' action roles were becoming more specialized, Eddie Murphy was segueing into family fare, Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson were maturing, and Laurence Fishburne was attaining mythic stature in "The Matrix." But then in 1999, Smith reteamed with his "MIB" director, Barry Sonnenfeld, for the ill-conceived movie of the `60s TV show "Wild Wild West." Its failure brought him back down to earth. "'Wild Wild West' was bittersweet, because while I was disappointed the movie wasn't received the way I'd hoped, I was relieved that people had stopped viewing me as a magician, able to work magic anytime," says Smith. "And failures help you to judge your successes. `Independence Day' and `Men in Black' broke box-office records, but it was like having chocolate cake for every meal. So `Wild Wild West' hurt, but it relieved me of that burden." Currently filming the romantic comedy "The Last First Kiss," co-starring Eva Mendes, around New York, Smith will be heard but not seen in the animated "Shark Tale," due this fall. "That's one my younger kids can see," he says, referring to his children with Pinkett, son Jaden, 6, and daughter Willow, 4. He is also working on a new album. Though he and Pinkett Smith are looked at as one of Hollywood's most successful couples, he says the onscreen romance of "Last First Kiss" is undiscovered territory. "Young black couples will walk up to me and Jada on the street and say, `Y'all got to stay together, because if you guys can't make it, none of us can!' We love that. "But I've only recently gotten comfortable with movie romance. I've never wanted any woman to feel like I'm disrespecting her, and that's created a distance in my roles. I think there's a certain energy that you need in order to create (romance in movies)." Smith's personal energy, though, has never been in doubt. "There's real pleasure that I get out of being happy and getting people energized - that's when I'm at my best," he says. "I need that dynamic both selfishly and selflessly: I try to encourage everyone around me to go someplace different artistically, to think differently." Does that ever get exhausting for his wife? "Jada and I can (talk) about things for hours, but when other people are around, yeah, I can wear her out," Smith says, flashing his killer grin. "I think my energy can get a little oppressive for her. But she understands that it's a life-force for our relationship, as much as it might get on her nerves. "It's like, we all love the sun, but the sun can burn you sometimes!"

Are you technophobic like this character? No, I am strictly the future. I need every single gadget that I could possibly have. I need the latest Panther or Jaguar, whatever the latest thing is, the newest Ipod, I can’t have the old one, all of that stuff. I need to have everything. I need all of the latest gadgets. There’s a music program called Reason that connects to another music program called ProTools. I have an album coming out for Christmas, and I just recorded my first single from inception, creating the music, laying the vocals, everything in a hotel room, and mixed it on my laptop on a plane flying back to L.A. And it’s just insane to me. I burned a CD, so I have a CD of the record, of everything in my laptop, and that it’s come to that point is just beautiful to me. [b]Will you go on tour again? I’ll be doing the I, Robot tour, and I’ll be performing on the tour. I’m performing in Moscow, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Paris, and somewhere else. There’s six [spots].[/b]

Rapper-turned-actor Will Smith is planning a return to the music world with a new album this Christmas. The rapper's last album, Born To Reign, was released in 2002, and now he's back in the studio working on another project after completing work on his eagerly-anticipated movie I, Robot. He tells Teen People, "I'm recording now and looking to put something out around Christmas. Generally what I do with my career is kind of like (playing) Double Dutch - when you're waiting outside the rope until you see a good opening. Now feels like a good time." all this talk about christmas..you guys have obviously forgotten about [url="http://www.jazzyjefffreshprince.com/audio/christmas.mp3"]this![/url]

[quote=rockthehouse,Jul 13 2004, 10:57 AM]i hope he will never ever be seen in an advert of this criminal bastards of KFC!![/quote] welcome back benny..how's life?

Will Smith, joined by MTV VJ Vanessa, recently surprised the audience at the premiere of MTV's "Never Before Scene" with an impromptu Q&A session. Q: I have to ask, if you had your own robot, what would you have it do? Will Smith: [He laughs.] Well, first I would have it lay down ... [He laughs again.] What's great about the robots is they are called learning robots, the NS5. They learn about you, they learn what your needs are, when you eat, it never forgets people's birthdays, anniversaries. The robot for me would be a perfect assistant. Vanessa: Assistant or girlfriend? Smith: Well, you can assist in many things! Q: In the movie, you said a hologram called you after the doctor's death. What does that mean? Smith: We now have e-mail; in the future, we have h-mail. Holographic mail — essentially, a person will be able to leave their house and send a message. You stand in front of it and say, "Hey, Will, I love you. I'll be there in a minute." So when I get to my house, I have a message, and your hologram will come saying, "Hey, Will, I love you." The big difference is you can program your hologram to respond to certain questions, like, "Where are you going?" And it will say, "I'm sorry, I don't have that information," or it will trigger the hologram to say "I'm going down to the beach, Meg and I are going to have a ball." Vanessa: So it has to know ahead of time to give a happy or angry response. Smith: Absolutely, you program its h-mail. Q: Why are you scared of the robots if they are designed to help humans? Smith: Well, my character in the film had a bad experience with one of the robots. Essentially, the three laws of robotics make robotics 100 percent safe, and my character is the only person in the world that doesn't trust the robots. There is just something he can't figure out, and as the movie expands we find out there is a glitch in the robotic logic. Vanessa: So [your character] went with [his] gut. Smith: Yeah, I just went with my gut. Vanessa: You learned from your mistakes. Smith: No, I learn from other people's mistakes. Q: Did you do all the stunts yourself or did you have a stuntman? Smith: Well, I definitely have a stuntman. What you do is, say the stunt is [that] I have to jump off the stage. What I do is run and yell, then it is "Cut!" — and the stuntman does the jump. In the movie, you see me run and yell, then the stuntman does the jump because I have to protect my body. Vanessa: The acting up until the jump is the hardest part. Smith: Yeah, 'cause I have to run and yell. All he has to do is jump. I can do that, but my mind is occupied with the yell. & more here [url="http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interviews/i/i_robot_first_look/index.jhtml"]http://www.mtv.com/shared/movies/interview...ook/index.jhtml[/url]

WILL SMITH WISES UP: Star of 'Men in Black' and 'Independence Day' turned to Isaac Asimov in his quest to make a 'smarter summer movie' July 13, 2004 BY TERRY LAWSON FREE PRESS MOVIE WRITER Will Smith says he knew only one thing for certain when he committed to "I, Robot," the science-fiction thriller inspired by a prescient, half-century-old collection of Isaac Asimov stories. THE SMITH FILE Name: Will Smith Age: 35 Birthplace: Philadelphia Notable films: "Ali," "Men in Black," "Independence Day," "Six Degrees of Separation" "I knew this couldn't be just another summer movie with explosions and chases and special effects," says Smith. "Because audiences have said good-bye to all that. It's been done to death; it's over." So that means no "Bad Boys III?" "Oh, man, I ran right into that, didn't I?" says Smith, laughing. "OK, fair enough. If I was to do another 'Bad Boys,' it wouldn't be anything like the first two. It would have to be story-driven and character-driven. OK, maybe with one really big explosion, but that's all." It could be that Will Smith's greatest talent, according to Michael Mann, who directed him to an Oscar nomination in "Ali," is that he takes everything he does seriously "without ever seeming to take himself seriously." Or it could be that no movie star since Arnold Schwarzenegger has exuded as much self-confidence. Ask him how he's doing, and he'll always tell you life's never been better. This day, it's "all gravy," he says. Make an offhand remark about his status as one the world's top five movie stars, and he interrupts, pretending to take umbrage: "Five? That means four are ahead of me? And would two of them happen to be named Tom?' One of those Toms -- last name of Cruise -- had surprised Smith the night before, turning up unexpectedly at the Los Angeles premiere of "I, Robot." "And all of a sudden, it was like I wasn't even there anymore," says Smith. "They could have rolled up the red carpet. I was like: 'Wait a minute. Don't you have your own movie to push?' Seriously, that was very cool of him. We've known each other a while, but we've just gotten closer over the last year." Spend a few minutes with Smith, and you envy Cruise the privilege. Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed Smith in both "Men in Black" films and the bomb "Wild Wild West," says Smith's positive outlook and natural charm can be disarming and that no one will ever accuse him of being insincere or sneaky. "He lays it all out there for you to see," says Sonnenfeld. Robot building Smith's honesty-is-best policy was on the table when he signed on to produce "I, Robot," a project that had been in development for years with various directors and actors attached to it. He had been looking for what he calls "smarter summer movie concepts" when he read Asimov's collection of robot stories, which the writer started publishing in fantasy magazines in the late 1940s. Envisioning a future in which robots made to serve man begin to evolve into something their creators never envisioned, Asimov, says Smith, "basically laid down the formula for just about every sci-fi movie that robots figured in." "It all went back to him and these three laws of logic that he established for robot behavior in those stories. One, a robot may not harm a human being or let a human be harmed. Two, a robot must obey orders given to it by humans except when that would hurt a human. And three, a robot can protect himself unless that interferes with the first or second law. "Each of the stories is basically about what happens when these rules, this human-imposed logic, appear to be challenged some way." Smith then met Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman, who adapted "A Beautiful Mind" for the screen, at the Academy Awards ceremony in 2002. The actor believed Goldsman could be the person to turn the Asimov work into something more than just another collection of special effects, and 20th Century Fox agreed. The new version has Smith playing a "robophobic" detective in 2035 Chicago, where the monopololistic U.S. Robotics is about to introduce a new product line that will make robots available to millions more people. But when a test-model robot is implicated in a possible murder, the rollout is jeopardized. The cop has to turn to a less-than-cooperative robot psychologist (played by Bridget Moynahan) for help in ascertaining what's going on. "Basically, what we were pitching was a $100-million art movie, about personal relationships and prejudice and technology," recalls Smith. Smith acknowledges he couldn't completely shuck his summer movie mentality: Originally, he says, there were just a couple of robots in the story. "I said, 'No, no, this audience is going to want to see it all on-screen. . . . It has to be bigger than that for the point to be made.' " Director Alex Proyas and a special effects team worked for months to design a robot that Smith says was both what people expect robots to look like yet still original. "We literally looked at a hundred different ideas. But the look (Proyas and his team) finally came up with was inspired by the iMac. You could see the insides of the thing, the inner workings. Very cool." Human touch Smith had plenty of experience working with "blue screen" -- the blank backgrounds that allow the computer-generated and mechanical special effects to be added to the film later -- but it was important to everyone involved that the robot murder suspect, nicknamed Sonny, be played by an actor, a la Gollum in the "Lord of the Rings" films. Proyas chose Alan Tudyk, currently on screen in "Dodgeball" and a member of the cast of the short-lived but much-acclaimed TV series "Firefly," to act the part, though he would ultimately be replaced by a computer effects creation. Smith says it made an enormous difference to have a fellow actor to work with, especially in the interrogation scene that's the dramatic centerpiece of the film. "Alan's so great," says Smith. "He comes in wearing this suit" (which is an outfit that allows the filmmakers to duplicate his physical and emotional reactions with the computer-generated robot later) "and just gives this great performance. It's so much better than the old way, where you were talking to a tennis ball, you know. "Except for the first couple of days, when you're trying to be serious and dramatic with this guy in a skin-tight green cat suit." Proyas says he wanted the robots and other special effects to be as convincing as possible, but the extra effort led to "I, Robot" not being finished until 10 days before the movie was ready to open. That, in turn, meant the usual summer-movie press junkets and promotions could not be mounted. Smith did a few last-minute interviews, but says the movie, in the end, will work or it won't. "It's not about the hype or the buildup. It's about what we got on-screen. And even if it isn't a blockbuster, we can live with that because we know we've made a good movie." Smith will next be heard, along with Robert De Niro and Renee Zellweger, in "Shark Tale," which he describes as "an animated gangster comedy with fish." He's also filming "The Last First Kiss," a romantic comedy. Despite the acclaim he received for "Ali" and the endless suggestions that it's past time for him to move in a more dramatic direction, Smith says his goal is to make "an everything movie." "You know what I mean? A movie that does it all, like 'Jerry Maguire' or 'Tootsie.' One with heart and soul and drama and comedy and a great story. You know anybody with one of those? Send 'em to me." [url="http://www.freep.com/entertainment/movies/will13_20040713.htm"]http://www.freep.com/entertainment/movies/...13_20040713.htm[/url]

[quote=willjadafan,Jul 12 2004, 10:27 PM]WILL'S ALSO GONNA BE ON GOOD MORNING AMERICA WEDNESDAY JULY 14TH AND ON 106 AND PARK FRIDAY THE 16TH....HOLLA BACK!!![/quote] everyone make sure u watch 106 and park..we're bound to get more album news on that!! :jig:

yeah all ol skoolers are always giving fp props