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Jada Pinkett Smith: My Life With Will Forget the parade of celebs in commercials flaunting their newly slimmer selves -- the wife of superstar Will Smith has packed on the pounds. Jada Pinkett Smith returns as the voice of Gloria the Hippo in the sequel to Madagascar. Gloria is a heavyweight in every sense of the word, which is why Jada loved playing her the second time around. Adding to the fun was having her daughter Willow, supply the voice of baby Gloria. Q: So you're OK with being a hippo who's not exactly svelte? A: I've been that tiny girl that's always wanted more body. So this was a great opportunity for me. My dream came true. I got a lady that's got a lot of body and she's very proud of it. Actually, I think that's a really wonderful message for adults as well as children that you've got to be happy in your own skin. Q: And she also has an unquenchable spirit. A: What I love about Gloria is the confidence that she has. She could care less what anybody else thinks and she kind of leads her army. She's doing her own thing. She creates her own passion, makes her own way. I admire that about her. Q: There's a lot of her determination in you, isn't there? A: I try. I have a lot of help from my husband. What makes our relationship work in our family is, I think, that we can switch roles a lot. When I need help Will can take over and when he needs help I can take over for him. Q: It's a little hard to imagine you taking over for a force of nature like Will. A: You know it's funny, Will and I talk about this all the time -- about how people perceive us and how we're probably the exact opposite in our personal lives. I'm very clear on who Will is and he's very clear on who I am, and that's how you keep it real, by staying true to yourself. It's not living up to an image of who you want people to think you are. That's where I think people get messed up. They create this image outside of who they really are, and then they get caught up in it. Q: So who are you really? A: I'm a girl-guy and I always have been. I'm a tomboy, I like boxing, and I like sports. The irony is I was the girl in school that was always very petite and underdeveloped so I was thought of as everybody's little sister. I was never the girlfriend. I was always the little sister. People always liked having me around because I was cute and funny and energetic and different. Guys were going, 'We love Jada. That's my girl. That's my little sister, right there.' Q: Now, you seem so confident. Was there ever a time when you weren't? A: When I was a student at Baltimore School for the Arts, I remember I was messing up really bad. I was not going to school, and just doing stuff I wasn't supposed to be doing. I'll never forget a teacher who brought me into his office and said, 'Jada you have so much potential. You have more talent in the tip of your little pinkie finger than most people have in their whole bodies. Why are you throwing your life away?' I think that's when I started getting the message. Q: I guess from the outside looking in, you and Will seem to have a pretty perfect marriage. A: Imperfection is what makes perfection. My life with Will is beautiful and sound, but I don't want people to misunderstand what that means. That doesn't mean that we don't have disagreements or that sometimes I want him out of my face and he wants me out of his. We have moments in our love life when it's really hot and moments in our love life when it's not. I want people to understand that we are extremely happy because we have dealt with what the realities of relationships are instead of dealing with the romanticized version. Relationships are difficult and they take a lot of work. But it is very possible, in living in that reality to have a fantastic relationship. Q: What are you striving for in your life and career? A: Freedom, and it's not really fantasy, is something that I've been working on making a reality. It's just having that freedom, just being able to knock down all those barriers that we create for ourselves and knock down all those walls. There should be nothing that's impossible for any of us, you know, for anything that we decide to do with our lives. For some reason women have been told that we're limited, that we have a glass ceiling above our heads and that's just not true. http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-...ml?archive=true

Ben Stiller, Chris Rock to promote Dreamworks movie in Netanya Stars of new animation film Madagascar 2 to arrive on November 22 to promote movie at Netanya theater Following Jerry Seinfeld’s visit last year to promote his Bee Movie, Dreamworks Animation decided to hold a premiere in Israel celebrating their new animation. This time, the movie is Madagascar 2. Its stars, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Jada Pinkett Smith and Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg, who accompanied Seinfeld on last year’s visit, will make their way to Israel. Ben Stiller, who is the voice of Alex the lion, will be joined by Chris Rock (Marty the zebra) and Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith (Gloria the hippopotamus). They are scheduled to land in Israel on Saturday, November 22 and participate in the celebrative screening which will take place that same night at Globus Max theater at the Poleg junction in Netanya. Madagascar, which came out in 2005, became one of the top three box office busting animations in Israel, with more that half a million viewers. Madagascar 2 will be shown at movie theaters during Hanukkah, starting December 18. This premiere is the first international Israeli screening to be shown outside of Tel Aviv in an attempt to launch the new movie center in the periphery. Details of the Hollywood delegation’s accommodations and schedules have not yet been finalized but they are expected to be in Israel for two to three days. Yoram Globus, the chairman of Globus Group, who will distribute the movie in Israel said, “It is a big honor to have stars of such caliber coming to Israel. I am happy and proud of the fact that the studios see us as part of the international movie map.” http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3614773,00.html

"The Human Contract" at 44th Chicago Film Festival The gala presentation of the directorial debut of Jada Pinkett Smith's new film "The Human Contract." Part of the Black Perspectives segment. A Q & A with Smith and actor Jason Clarke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ZgjNAIqlc

Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Justin Timberlake, along with Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat, Zach Braff, Colin Farrell, Neil Patrick Harris, Scarlett Johansson, Shia LeBeouf, Tobey Maguire, Ryan Reynolds, and Jason Segal, are featured in a second of a series of public service announcements to encourage American youth to vote in partnership with Google, YouTube, Declare Yourself, and MySpace. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to vote and participate in the upcoming election. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TGf2o4qeBo

Elton's interview: Will Smith promoting 'Bad Boys II' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMi03yE7O70 EDIT: This video has been removed from Youtube

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Police Confirm Body Found Is Hudson's Missing Nephew Boy Missing Since 'Dreamgirls' Actress' Mother, Brother Were Found Shot in Home The body found in a sports utility vehicle on Chicago's West Side Monday morning has been identified as Julian King, the 7-year-old nephew of Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson. Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis confirmed the Hudson family's worst fears at a press conference Monday afternoon. The 7-year-old's body was found in the back seat of a white Chevrolet Suburban that police had been looking for since Friday, when he went missing and Hudson's mother and brother were found shot to death in their home on Chicago's South Side. Police discovered Julian's body and the missing vehicle about 10 miles southeast of the Hudson family home. According to law enforcement sources quoted in the Chicago Tribune Monday afternoon, King had been shot multiple times. "We're just sad. We're going through this stage where we're just sad and in shock," Hudson's aunt, Dorothy Hudson, told the Associated Press Monday. She and her husband, John, own a Chicago funeral home that plans to handle arrangements for the family. http://www.abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/st...4149&page=1 ------------------------------------- Damn. RIP :therain:

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Jada: "Paz Vega is brilliant and a very special woman" VIDEO http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2008/10/27/g...1225102960.html

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MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Clip and Featurettes! http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_c...9&Itemid=99

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Ben Stiller to Direct in The Trial of the Chicago 7? Is Ben Stiller's directing career taking a dramatic turn? According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Trial of the Chicago 7 "DreamWorks project about the 1968 riots at the Democratic convention and their aftermath" is on the fast track and the funnyman is in talks to direct the project for the studio. The talks with Stiller are currently in "the exploratory stage" as "the newly configured" DreamWorks and the actor are talking about whether this cinematic pairing would work for both parties. Stiller is mainly noted for creating such comedies as Tropic Thunder and Zoolander. After DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures parted company, Dreamworks took over "development of the project." Written by The West Wing Aaron Sorkin this is one of projects that DreamWorks wants to get into production as soon as possible. http://www.movieweb.com/news/NENdaVNPvw19QW

Jada Pinkett Smith to be at festival The 44th Chicago International Film Festival has confirmed that actress Jada Pinkett Smith will present the world premiere of her directorial debut, The Human Contract, at AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois, Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. The Human Contract details the provocative psychological journey of a successful but repressed advertising executive. The cast includes Jason Clarke, Paz Vega, Idris Elba, T.J. Thyne, Steven Brand, Tessa Thompson, Ted Danson and Pinkett Smith. http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/les...E.php?AID=19630

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Hancock sleeve in subliminal ad shocker! http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4621/coverff2.jpg Sony Pictures Home Entertainment recently unveiled the sleeve art for UK Blu-ray sleeve art for the Will Smith smash Hancock. The blockbuster is scheduled to hit both DVD and Blu-ray i the UK on December 1, but we wonder if anybody at Sony actually signed off on this piece of artwork. The first thing worth noting is that the artwork itself is horrible. Quite why the company didn't simply stick with the iconic close-up of Hancock's face that was used for the movie poster is beyond our comprehension. Still, as ugly as it is, at least it has been tweaked from the similar American sleeve, which managed to give away a rather major story spoiler regarding the film's plot! However, the most intriguing thing of all came when we took a closer look at the image. Clearly visible to Hancock's right is a huge billboard promoting the new series of Dexter... http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/7892/subliminalfc9.jpg It's a strange piece of 'almost subliminal' advertising, especially when you take into account the fact that this critically-acclaimed Showtime series is distributed on DVD by Paramount on both sides of the Atlantic, while Hancock is a Sony Pictures release. Have the two studio rivals come to some kind of cross-promotional agreement, or is somebody in Sony's art department going to get a very big slap on the wrist for this oversight? Source: http://www.homecinemachoice.com/node/9292 _____________ I LOVE Dexter! :lolsign:

Preview on WorstPreviews.com Nobody can tell you what "Seven Pounds" is. December 5th, 2007: The story centers on a man who inadvertently falls in love with a woman while attempting to kill himself. What to Expect: Sometimes, mystery is a good marketing tool. If people don't know what the heck a movie is about, it can make them want to see it, if they're intrigued by the tidbits they're given by the studio. Remember those trailers for "The Matrix" with Laurence Fishburne intoning, in that stentorian voice of his, "No one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." It's hard to remember, given how ingrained the entire Matrix concept is in our collective pop culture consciousness, that before the film came out, it was a big mystery. "What is The Matrix?" We were all dying to know. We were dying to know how the Matrix made Keanu Reeves dodge bullets all slow-mo. We were dying to see how super ninja kung fu fighting fit into all this. The problem with this strategy is that the answer has to be as intriguing as the riddle. Just ask M. Night Shyamalan how well audiences react when their expectations aren't met in that regard. Which brings me to "Seven Pounds," the newest entry in Will Smith's quest to get himself an Oscar, dammit. He has been nominated twice, once for "Ali" and once for "The Pursuit of Happyness," but has never won despite having recently become the record-holder for the longest streak of films that gross over 100 million dollars. Will Smith is the closest thing to a sure thing that exists in Hollywood, a man who is so likable and whose films are so dependably liked by audiences that even his less successful efforts are still good paydays for the studio. He has long owned the July 4th weekend, but after opening first "Happyness" and then "I Am Legend" and now this upcoming film in December, it seems he's angling to claim another holiday as Property of Will Smith. Despite this long history of box office success and a virtually ironclad public persona as a nice guy and dedicated family man, Will could use some shoring up. There's a word that's been haunting him the last few years. It's a word that has all but ruined Tom Cruise's once-bulletproof career. I'll give you a clue: it starts with "Scient" and ends in "Ology." Rumors have been flying for quite awhile that Will and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith, who are good friends with Cruise, converted to the Church of Scientology some time ago. It should be noted that merely being friends with Tom Cruise doesn't make somebody a Scientologist...but Smith would not be the first Friend of Tom to find himself giving money to Xenu. Scientology has such negative connotations to the public, and has done such damage to Cruise's image and career, that word went around last summer that Sony Pictures wanted Smith to publicly deny being a Scientologist before "Hancock" opened in theaters. Smith's reps had previously denied that he was a Scientologist, but Sony just wanted the matter reiterated. Word around the campfire is that Smith gave coupons for free E-meter readings (a Scientology device) to cast and crew as part of a wrap gift after the "Hancock" shooting was completed. It could have been a joke. Or not. Given all this history, I'll just let you decide how to interpret the interesting fact that Connor Cruise, Tom Cruise's adopted son, is making his film debut in "Seven Pounds," playing Smith's character as a teenager. An amazing coincidence? You be the judge. So, back to this film. The director, Gabriele Muccino, is an established Italian director re-establishing himself as a director of American films, the first of which was... hey, this sounds familiar..."The Pursuit of Happyness." On their surfaces, the two films seem to have some thematic similarities. Both appear to be about thoughtful men on their own looking to accomplish some deep, heartfelt goal and experiencing emotional complications in the form of cute children in "Happyness" and an apparently-sick Rosario Dawson in this one. So, what the heck is it about? No one seems to know. The official summaries are...well, "vague" would be overstating it. "Deliberately murky" would be more accurate. Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent who has done some unspecified awful thing which took seven seconds. He is trying to atone by choosing seven strangers for whom he is going to do Something Amazing but Unclear which change their lives forever. One of the seven strangers is Emily, played by Rosario Dawson; she and Ben form a romantic connection, which introduces complications into whatever the heck his plan is. So, what is he doing for these people? He works for the IRS, is he forgiving their huge tax debt? Is he arranging for them to win lottery windfalls? And what has he done that's so awful? What's his plan? The trailer gives away very little. The advanced publicity gives away even less. Speculation abounds. Nobody seems to know what the actual plot of this film is. Until now. I have used my mad crazy Internet sleuthing skills to unearth the plot of this movie, gleaned from some people on message boards who claim to have seen the script. I know, you can't believe everything you read on the Internet, but I've discovered the same plot posted several different places by different people, and it makes complete and total sense, so I'm inclined to believe it. Brace yourself, because it's actually pretty killer. Literally. I think this film's a pretty safe bet for a box office success. "Pursuit of Happyness" was a big hit for the kind of film it was, grossing $150 million off a $55 million budget. If "Seven Pounds" gets its expected Oscar nominations, that will guarantee additional business, and they're releasing the film late enough in the year to take advantage of it. Add that to the apparent film truism that people will go see Will Smith in anything, and you've got a recipe for a successful holiday-season drama. In Conclusion: December is definitely the time when moviegoers enjoy a good tearjerking drama, especially if it's a well-acted, well-written one populated by likable actors. http://www.worstpreviews.com/review.php?id...section=preview

By James Brady Publication Date: 10/19/2008 She’s married to one of the sexiest, wealthiest men in movies, and yet actress Jada Pinkett Smith was having breakfast coffee with me in her Park Avenue hotel suite. The petite (only 5 feet tall) wife of Will Smith, mother of two of his three kids, was in New York to promote her latest film, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, an animated adventure in which she reprises her voice role as Gloria the Hippo. In the film, due out Nov. 9, her 7-year-old daughter, Willow, provides the voice of the young Gloria. Will and Jada’s 10-year-old son, Jaden, also has been acting in movies. Did they encourage him? “It was something he wanted to do,” Jada said. “Will was complaining that he was having difficulty casting a boy in one of his films [The Pursuit of Happyness], and Jaden said, ‘I could play that role.’ Will said, ‘You’d have to audition.’ So he did and got the role, and now he’s done two movies.” So now four Smiths are pulling down Hollywood paychecks. Will has another son, Trey, from a previous marriage, so I asked Jada, “Are you now his stepmother?” “No,” she said. “I’m his bonus mother. He’s 16 and a football star in school.” And what is Will up to? “He’s at home this week doing the daddy thing,” said Jada. So he’s a good dad? “He’s a great daddy,” she said. And although Jada and Will have worked together on several film projects, she declared earnestly, “Our biggest production is the kids.” In addition to Madagascar, Jada starred with Annette Bening and Meg Ryan in a big remake of The Women, which opened last month. But her current passion is a new film, a mystery called The Human Contract. “I wrote the original screenplay, produced, directed, and played a role,” she said. “Directing is the new direction for me. There are so few good roles for women—I want to create some.” I’d read that she had asked her husband to direct her scenes in the film. True? “Yes, I asked him to have my back,” she replied. Does that mean the family that directs together stays together? “No,” replied Jada with a wicked grin. “Believe me, it’s more like the family that directs together has to work hard to stay together.” Brady's Bits When I met Jada, two husky, dark-suited young men shepherded me into and out of elevators and sat outside the hotel suite until I left. You get an appreciation that the Smith family is doing pretty well and is securely looked after —a sort of movieland aristocracy. How did she and Will first meet? “I was 19 and auditioning for the role of his girlfriend on Fresh Prince of Bel Air,” she said. “He was trying to be flirty with me, and I told him to cool it.” Jada did not get the role. “I kept a grudge,” she said. “I think I may have been the only black actress in Hollywood who was never on Fresh Prince. Will eventually asked me to come on, but I said no. He got me eventually—but not the actress.” Personal Born Sept. 18, 1971, in Baltimore, Md. Married to actor Will Smith since 1997. Two children: Jaden, 10, and Willow, 7. Why You Know Her Jada got her start on the Cosby spin-off A Different World, but her breakthrough was the Eddie Murphy film The Nutty Professor. She also starred in two Matrix movies. What You Don't Know Jada was Miss Maryland in 1988. When not acting, she sings with the hard rock/metal band Wicked Wisdom. The songwriter/rapper Tupac Shakur was a former classmate and close friend until his death in 1996. http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2008/10/ja...kett-smith.html