Who Do You Think You’re Fooling, Will(is)?

By Beth in Entertainment, Money, Movies, Hollywood, TV, relationships, pop culture, media, gossip, Oprah, Will Smith, Scientology, TomKat, cult on July 10 2008

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Hollywood’s golden couple, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett blah-blah-blah have officially got with the program and are opening a “non-affiliated” private school.

On the mythological waiting list/roster of shoe-in attendees, Suri Cruise and possibly the Preston-Travolta clan. While the Hancock star and his wife are insistent that the school is not grounded in L. Ron Hubbard’s teachings, “several teachers on board at the school are members of the Church.”

Will and Jada’s New Village is different. For one, unlike your standard everyday brand of school sports which are nothing more than thinly veiled exercises in masochism where humans get used as target practice (dodgeball, kickball), New Village students will have the option of doing yoga. How very progressive. We’re no Scientologists here (and therefore ignorant as to the ways of the future), but we foresee a very heartfelt Oprah episode airing towards the mid-August in which Tom and Katie make cameos alongside their bestest friends and everyone shares some “I love you(s)”.

If only the ending to this sad story weren’t quite as predictable as Hancock’s twisted denouement.

Not Quite Legend

By ariel in Entertainment, Movies, film, Will Smith, I Am Legend, Richard Matheson on December 15 2007
Smith and the dog in I Am LegendI Am Legend is the almost movie of the year. It’s an almost movie because it’s not a bad one, but when you come out of the theater you feel that it could have been so much better. If you are a Will Smith fan, or a groupie of a deadly virus killed everyone but one sole immune survivor genre, then you are all set. Smith is doing a good enough acting job and with an adorable German Shepherd as a sidekick, you can’t really go wrong. The story, based on the book I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, is not so bad either, at least the starting point (again, you gotta love the genre).
Dr. Robert Neville (played by Smith) is the last human survivor in New York City ruins, fighting the infected mutant who come out at night and will kill any living creature, while trying to find a vaccine to their disease. Ten years ago, this might have been a great movie, but today, after movies like 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, or even The Invasion, it’s only almost, borderline mediocre.