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totally agree! they should have got him to play biggie as a kid instead of whoever they have now! I read that he is playing him as a kid.

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith and daughter Willow Smith arrive at the Dream Halloween annual fundraiser for the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008, in Santa Monica, Calif. The Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, Host Jamie Lee Curtis and Honorary Event Chairs Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith welcome families and friends to celebrate all the fun and excitement that Halloween has to offer at this annual fundraising event. Each October, the Foundation opens its doors to hundreds of families to attend Dream Halloween® in-costume and trick-or-treat for toys, meet their favorite costume characters, play games, watch the live stage show, create arts and crafts and enjoy delicious food. Other celebrities joining in the excitement include Wilmer Valderrama, Jason Priestley, Melina Kanakaredes, Marlee Matlin and Doris Roberts. This year’s Dream Halloween® Los Angeles takes place at the Barker Hangar in the Santa Monica Air Center from 5:00 pm – 8:30 pm on Saturday, October 25, 2008. One-of-a-kind dolls created in the likeness of Jada Pinkett Smith and Willow Smith will be presented to them by Bob Eckert, Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc. and Jerry Storch, Chairman and CEO, Toys“R”Us, Inc.

this is so sad. somebody killed her mom and brother and kidnapped her little nephew, it's all over the news here. Report: Jennifer Hudson's Mom Killed On South Side Police Now Searching For Man, 7-Year-Old Boy On North Side CHICAGO (CBS) ― The 57-year-old mother of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson was found dead in a South Side residence Friday afternoon, the family's pastor confirmed. Darnell Hudson Donnerson was one of two adults found fatally shot at a home at 70th Street and Yale Avenue, said Willie Davis, pastor of Progressive Baptist Church, where Jennifer Hudson has been a member. "This is a very sad day to get that kind of news," Davis said. "This is really going to be a major, major blow to such a wonderful person … But we know through our faith in God she'll get through it." http://cbs2chicago.com/local/jennifer.huds...r.2.848234.html Authorities search for Hudson's nephew CHICAGO (WLS) -- The mother and brother of singer and Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death inside a home Friday. Police have confirmed Hudson's mother, Darnell Hudson Donerson, 57, is one of the deceased. The other victim has been identified as Jennifer Hudson's brother, Jason S. Hudson, 29. The home where the bodies were discovered aruond 3 p.m. Friday is at 7019 S. Yale in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood. Property records indicate the home belongs to Donerson. A search is under way for a young boy who is missing from the home. A child, possibly Jennifer Hudson's 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, is missing, according to sources. Police are searching for an SUV that was seen in the area - a 1994 white Suburban, Illinois license plate number X584859. http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=n...&id=6468863

haha. I was waiting for somebody to come say that. this shift in conversation really sparked my interest.

Madagascar 2- Meet the Cast (Jada & Willow voice Gloria) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nrb_jRUOhA

I think it speaks volumes that Powell is so concerned for this country that he'd vote against his own party, and all the crap that comes with that choice ( yes the "b/c he's black" thing is getting really old) and I def. respect him for that, esp. since a big factor was McCain's choice of Palin. At this point I'd be more concerned that this woman wants the job of VP, yet has no idea what a VP does. We just sat through 8 years of stupid do we really have room for more?

YES! he's in his prime remember? lol maybe if Jada dropped a few hints he'd do it, apparently she was among the people who were telling him to get back into music when Big Willie Style came about. ack, it does kinda grate that his film career is in the forefront, esp. when he goes on and on about music being his first love. KEEP HOPE ALIVE JEFF! lmao.

Jada & Willow/ Cookie magazine Jada Pinkett Smith Five members of the family. Four separate Hollywood careers. Not to worry: Superstar mom always has a plan. By Pilar Guzmán Jada Pinkett Smith and her 8-year-old daughter, Willow. Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will Smith, recently sat down together and plotted out their life and partnership goals on a piece of paper. "I'm doing what you might call a business plan in my marriage right now," says the 37-year-old mother of Willow, 8; Jaden, 10; and stepson Trey, 16. "I don't know why, but we all think these things are supposed to be in sync. You know, when you're in business, you figure out what your goals are, and how you're going to get all that achieved, right?" asks Pinkett Smith, who on a sweltering L.A. day makes a pair of skinny jeans and a white V-neck tee look perfectly polished. "Why don't we do that with our life partners?" Equal parts realistic and optimistic, this state-of-the-union exercise seems a perfect microcosm of her worldview: "The point is to clear out a lot of unnecessary stuff so we can find ways of being better together," Pinkett Smith says matter-of-factly, "because your relationship is either moving forward or it's dying." First on their list of priorities: Get back to nature, which includes learning how to surf as well as camping and hiking as a family. The process? Lots of research and a little delegation. "When the going gets rough, instead of just going 'Argh,' we sit down and say, 'We're going to find a way to do this.'" she says. "In this case, I say, 'Will, you find out exactly where we should go in Yellowstone with the kids, and I'll do Big Sur.'" Pinkett Smith doesn't slow down long enough to let things not work out. This year alone, the actress and philanthropist, who starred most recently in The Women, also made her directorial debut with The Human Contract, finished executive-producing The Secret Life of Bees, opened a church, and founded a school with her husband in Westlake Village, California. Though she's best known for her role as the acrobatic Niobe in the Matrix series and as the voice of Gloria, the sassy hippo in Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (which opens this month), Pinkett Smith has also toured as the lead singer of her heavy-metal band, Wicked Wisdom, with her young kids in tow. That was, however, before two of them had legitimate film careers of their own. (Willow most recently appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, while Jaden will show up alongside Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly in next month's The Day the Earth Stood Still.) "I've found that I'm at my best when I [engage] everything—the mind, the spirit, my body," she says. And as a mother of a girl, she is very conscious of emphasizing what she calls "the importance of wholeness in being a woman." In addition to her film career, Willow is a serious gymnast, and her mother is okay with however many activities she wants to take on. "I say to her, 'Always focus on your own personal strength,'" says the tiny and fit Pinkett Smith, who looks like she could do a backflip herself. "As long as you compete with you and stay on the track that you want to be on, you're going to be okay." Child-rearing is one area that doesn't really require that much plotting out between Pinkett Smith and her husband. "We're kind of innately in tune with what we both want for the kids," she says—in large part because they had some similar experiences in childhood that they don't want to replicate in their own family. "We knew that part of our partnership would be creating the exact opposite of what we had." Pinkett Smith's parents were both in high school when she was born, and though they were married briefly, she was brought up primarily by her mom, a nurse, and her maternal grandmother, who died when she was 12. Failure to preserve the family unit is not even a possibility. "We find solutions because that's what we both want," she says. "There is no other option." Also not an option: raising Hollywood brats. When it comes to manners and discipline, Pinkett Smith's philosophy sounds a lot like her marital plan—that is to say, considered and rigorous. "It's not 'please' and 'thank you' just 'because I told you so,' she explains. "I tell them, 'Every time you go out into the world, you are leaving an impression of yourself and this family with other people. What impression do you want to leave? Do you want people to think you are spoiled [rotten]?'" For Pinkett Smith, it's not just about etiquette—it's about a healthy self-esteem: "I want them to feel good; I want them to smile. Once children feel great about being who they are, you don't really have to worry about manners." Pinkett Smith's Golden Rules of Parenting 1. Eat as a family. "There's flexibility about when they eat breakfast and lunch, but dinner together is sacred." 2. Enlist help. "I'm lucky to have a lot of people in my world who help me," says Pinkett Smith. That includes her mother: "She travels with me all the time, and when I travel and the kids aren't with me, she stays with them." 3. Drink water. "I tell them, 'You have three bottles of water a day, then drink what you want,'" she explains. "I'm always like, 'Listen, we've got to keep our bodies strong—we got too much stuff to do!'" 4. Respect their boundaries. Staying out of kids' space can teach them to be responsible for their own decisions and mistakes, she says: "Is it their room, or are they borrowing the space while they're living in your house? If it's theirs, then they should be able to do whatever they want with it. If it's their clothes, they have the right to do whatever they want with those clothes. We have to give them some freedom to be who they are." 5. Choose your battles. For instance, she doesn't prescribe what the kids are going to wear—even for the paparazzi. "Who is it going to hurt, really, if she has orange balloon pants on the red carpet?" she says. "I try to stay outside my ego and what I want and to respect them as I expect them to respect me." 6. Expose and educate. "We go to church as a family on Sunday, but we study world religion during the week as well. We read excerpts from the Bible, from Hindu texts, Kabbalah, Judaism...." http://www.cookiemag.com/entertainment/200...a_pinkett_smith

thread for posts relating to Jada, the kids, or misc stuff that doesn't really fit anywhere...compressing them b/c they usually don't get lots of responses, just lots of views so in an effort to keep it a little neater around here and not have a million threads with little or no responses.....

Interesting, to say the least.

I agree that doing a movie just in hopes of getting an Oscar is kind of moot. (though I'm sure a lot of actors do it, and ultimately that's the biggest honor) It doesn't necessarily define your career as an artist when you think about the actors/directors/writers/ and films that've gotten snubbed in the past; and there are lots of them. In Will's case he's chasing that Oscar and the more obvious that becomes, I think the harder it may be for him to obtain it. I hated that the whole time he was promoting POH he kept saying "I really don't need an award" over and over when asked about the Oscar, then what? a few mths. after Forrest wins he says how he hated to lose the Oscar a second time. If anything I thought he should have won it over Denzel for Training Day, but that's another story. I guess I can understand his frustration but I'd hope he's doing these dramas more b/c he wants the story told, rather than for an award. I guess it's not fair to just assume he's doing them(right now) in hopes for an Oscar, but that's the vibe I get, lol. Especially when he talks about being in his prime as an actor.

lmao. my problem with her? her story varies. on Will's E! THS there's an interview with her not too long after she had her son where she blames most of her attitude on the pregnancy and talks about how rude she was to people, and how that was probably a contributing factor. then she blames Will, then the producers, then the network....and honestly it sounds like she thinks somebody owes her something (besides and apology). c'mon a "national smear campaign"? what purpose would that serve if she's already gone from the show. and now she says: “The real reason I left– it was a contractual thing. It was definitely inspired internally, but it was basically a case of my salary being cut by more than half. I was offered 10 weeks of work out of 27 weeks, and told that I couldn’t work anywhere else. How could I work with that? How was I supposed to survive? So I said no– and they didn’t re-negotiate. That was it. They didn’t come back and say, ‘Ok, how about 12 weeks?’ They just left it. It was as if they were saying, ‘Take this bone, lady.’” c'mon lady which is it? just say you weren't happy they changed your character, and you were having financial issues b/c of it. To this day I laugh when I hear people go on and on about how the first "Aunt Viv" was better than the second one, uh yeah b/c they totally changed a lot about the character including smaller storylines and screentime. If so much blame is on the network what does that have to do with Will? he really had more pull than network execs back then? really? While Hubert admits that there are times when it still hurts to re-live some of those past experiences, she certainly doesn’t come across bitter. Instead, she sounds like a woman desperate to move on with her life.---sure she doesn't. "He went to all of our major markets and just obliterated me because he needed to win. At that time, Will was extremely competitive.” “I feel that Will owes me an apology. And I just want to know why– why he did the things he did? But I guess if he regretted it, he would reach out and apologise.”---melodrama at it's best “Both my father and my brother died with their names blemished, because of the things that people were saying about me. So I want my own name cleared. But I’m torn. Would it make me just as bad as Will to put something out there that would mean that his children would have to hear bad things about their dad?”---was it really that serious? I'm not calling her a liar but have some consistency in your stories. I really don't see how writing and publishing a book, and promoting it is moving on, if anything it's just gonna stir up more drama, hopefully it works out for her and doesn't come back to bite her in the ass. idk, who said anything about his ex, she's moved on with her life and remarried. really moved on. any past problems they had seem to have been resolved. it'll be interesting to see if Will ever has anything to say on this subject though.

(I really wanna see this movie too) I thought this video was kinda funny considering he couldn't remember the words on "Inside the Actor's Studio"until Charlie Mack started yelling them out from the audience, lol.

a bit of a cross post from the movie forum, Will @ the secret life of Bees premiere doing the song http://www.accesshollywood.com/the-secret-...es_video_731401

Will & Jada on the Red carpet talking "Bees" gushing over Jada and the kids on the cover of "Cookie Magazine" Will spitting the FPOBA theme(sorta)...haha http://www.accesshollywood.com/the-secret-...es_video_731401

they make houndstooth ties? I just noticed that. yeah her bang and curl combination have her hair looking very wig-ish, lol but overall they look nice.

Will & JL. produce, Jada's an executive producer http://www.wireimage.com/Celebrities/Will-Smith http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.a...ventId=83010837 http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thesecretlifeofbees/

Thanks for posting that Ted, good read. when I can manage to get past Palin's voice, and odd body language (which is extremely tough) all I see is a talking head, if I were a Republican I'd be truly offended at McCain's pick for VP, this woman is an insult to the intelligence of the American people. I didn't watch the actual debate, just lots of coverage.....wtf was up with the winking?

I saw it and honestly I thought it would be a lot funnier than it was, seems like he laughed more than the audiences. Which is disappointing b/c I've loved all his past shows, but the bucket list thing was funny. I didn't appreciate his Obama/ First Lady joke (probably b/c I'm black and female), even though it was old and i'd heard it before. I'm not sure he meant it as a joke or if it's something he really thinks, and tries to put a funny spin on.

I'm hearing the same thing around the net, mostly "I'll see it b/c Will's in it" most people still don't realize what it's about.

Owes me an apology, lmao. sounds like she's trying to pimp her book, I would love to know what Will says to all this after all these years, gotta be annoying as hell, but I can see him saying something gracious. I wonder does she always sound the way she does in this interview? It's no wonder nobody wants to work with her. “I heard that after I left the show, there were thousands of letters of support for me. But in order for them to let the show continue, they couldn’t let it be known that public opinion was going on my side. So Will went out on a nationwide smear campaign against me. And when someone coins you difficult… everybody knows the poison of that word. He went to all of our major markets and just obliterated me because he needed to win. At that time, Will was extremely competitive.” did everybody miss this back in the day or just me?

just when I think i'm starting to figure Will out. :shakehead: so you'll pass on a possible BB3 to do a prequel to I Am Legend or a sequel to Hancock? this is only a possibility b/c of the whole "Will Smith can sell any movie" thing, God forbid he has a box office bomb, wonder how quick they'll change their tune about sequels and prequels, some movies just need to be left alone. I'm sure there's no shortage of good "new" material coming his way.

I wasn't exactly blown away by this trailer either Tim, so it's not just you. That's not to say it won't be a good movie, i've actually been looking forward to it, but after I watched the trailer I was like "um, ok" lol. maybe I need to give it a couple more views.

the way they're stalling with the trailer, this better be a really good movie.

I'll never understand why the press recycles interviews, lol. half of that is from like 2004. poor Jada she really does get the crazies, there was a chick in London trying to get to her, who had her cell number and everything. there's a 50-50 chance one of them was Loretta Julie, lol.