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Jazzy Julie

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  1. haha thats a cool site, who was the A, cookie? coz u sure told him lol. I like the haters part of the site too.
  2. how about getting the chat room back and having more sceduled chats, it did work when we made a time for us all to come. That time was great when Will was on TRL and we found out the new single was called switch. Yeah and i think a flash intro would be good, it would make the site more modern.
  3. I know we've seen pics and stuff of Wills trailer but i was so bored i stumbled across some more info about how high-tech it is. The idea came to him at 3 o'clock in the morning, says Ronald Anderson, Hollywood's trailersmith-to-the-stars. He'd been pondering how best to build a supremely roomy trailer--one with enough headroom to accommodate 6-foot-2 Will Smith and Smith's 7-foot bodyguard. He sketched it out on paper: a monstrous 22-wheel tractor trailer. Like other travel trailers, it pops out its sides for added room. But the pièce de résistance of Anderson's design--the feature that he later patented--is a second story nested inside the first. Push a button and the upper floor emerges, extruded by computer-controlled electric motors in 30 seconds. "It's like a giant Transformer," says Anderson, referring to the children's toy. This toy, the Anderson Mobile Estate, costs $1.8 million, weighs 40 tons, is 75 feet long and contains 1,200 square feet of living space. By comparison, the much-ballyhooed bus that football commentator John Madden lives in between games has only 325 square feet, says Anderson. He should know; for 20 years he has been in the customized bus business, making land yachts for the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Hugh Hefner. Fitted out with a panoply of communications gear, an Anderson Estate allows its occupant to do business anywhere. "That's what my clients want," says Anderson, "a tool that lets them be fully engaged when they're away from home." In 2000 Anderson sold his prototype, called Aspen, to Will Smith. Then, a year ago Smith traded up to Babygirl, whose first floor contains a recording studio. The star used it to produce an L.A. television show from Vancouver, B.C. The first floor also has three plasma-screen TVs, two all-granite bathrooms and a full-service 14-foot-tall kitchen equipped with marble floors, clerestory windows, Sub-Zero fridge and matched-grain Italian cherrywood cabinetry (see photos: www.andersonmobileestates.com). Upstairs there's a bedroom with a king-size bed, a sitting area that accommodates 30, a children's play area and two more plasma-screen TVs (one 50 inches, the other 65 inches). There's a satellite uplink. When the wind outside exceeds 15 miles an hour, an anemometer tells the awnings to fold up. Security is tight. On one Estate a thumbprint scanner controls access to the bedroom. Should an unauthorized party enter the trailer when the owner is away, the security system dials his cell phone and transmits an image of the intruder. The most sophisticated technology is concealed in the engineering of the trailer shell itself. At highway speeds Babygirl flexes. Torque twists all eight nested walls. Unless the right balance is struck between flexibility and rigidity, veneers can crack, cabinets pop off. "Millimeters make a difference in my business," says Anderson. Worst of all, the inner and outer shells can get out of alignment, so that when the upper floor starts to rise, it binds against the lower. After much frustration and $4 million of development, Anderson eventually teamed up with metallurgist and stress analyst Gerald Clancy, an engineer whose prime attribute, according to Anderson, "was that he'd never built a trailer." Starting from a clean slate, Clancy achieved "mechanical perfection." Veneers no longer pop. But human error can still make setup and takedown ticklish. Furnishings on the second floor, for example, are positioned so they don't get squished when the roof comes down. An upstairs dividing wall folds in half. But leave a metal candlestick standing upright by mistake and it will impale the roof. With every Estate client, Anderson's objective is the same: "I want to trigger that part of their brain that says, ‘I'm home.'" To that end he visits customers' residences, borrowing homey details. For Will Smith's Aspen, he included chessboards, cowhide pillows and African masks. Says Anderson, "I know I've succeeded if a client touches his face in the first five minutes." He brings both hands to his cheeks in an "Oh, my!" gesture. One-upmanship, as much as homesickness, draws would-be owners. On a shoot with several stars and several trailers, two-story talent stands out. "You're up there looking down," explains Anderson's associate Gary Ballen. "Guys in one-story trailers ask themselves, Why is he up there and I'm not?" In the four years since Anderson began making Estates, he's changed his focus from selling to renting. "Two years ago we bought back every unit we could, so that now I own four of the six." He did that, he says, so he can make sure Estates are being properly maintained. "I'm too much of a control freak to do otherwise." Here's the deal he offers: A customer pays nothing up front. In exchange for his commitment to rent an Estate for six months a year ($227,000) for five years, he can design his own, provided the cost doesn't exceed $1.8 million. Anderson then is free to rent the trailer to other customers the rest of the year. Robert De Niro and Vin Diesel currently have Estates under construction. Diesel's, scheduled for delivery in May, has a sunroof whose technology comes from DaimlerChrysler's Maybach: At the touch of a switch, it goes from clear to opaque, or to any transparency in between. Australian entrepreneur Steve Outtrim, owner of touch-screen technology company Majitek, thinks the potential audience for Estates extends well beyond actors. "Lawyers, politicians, business leaders--they all have to be offsite from time to time. It makes sense for them to have the same comfort and privacy as they'd have at home." He's negotiating with Anderson for an Estate of his own. "For myself, I'd use it for travel and vacation. I could have it sent on ahead into the Outback. Then I'd land next to it in my King Air. Rather than have to dig a hole in the ground to do my business, I'd have a small luxury apartment." http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2004/1011/280.html?rl04
  4. i saw an episode once where cartman was acting like Will in wild wild west and was running around sayin "wicky wicky" and stuff, that was funny too. These south park writers like writing about Will dont they.
  5. i just found a south park script with Will in it, ive never seen the episode coz i dont watch it anymore but its pretty funny in a very strange kinda way. http://www.southpark.dsl.pipex.com/scripts/scr512.shtml
  6. the best of RnB CD friends dvd all of series 2 the simpson hit and run ps2 game pjamas (sp?) polor bear pjama case CD case jumper earings and neacklace and lots of alcohol i still got some more to come from my friends who i havnt seen yet.
  7. wow Aj you were right about a lot of stuff. Unfourunatly my Grandad died at 8.50pm on christmas eve. I couldnt sleep for all the wrong reasons, but when christmas day came we decided to go on as normal. All the family went to my Nans house and everybody was so strong, apart from me who kept going to pieces especially when i saw a pile of grandads un-opened presents. The day got better tho and my nan and Uncle came round to my house for dinner, despite my mum losing her dad she made a huge meal that everyone really enjoyed it and instead of crying and being depressed we all tried to laugh and joke( especially when my mum dropped wine in the potatoes). It later snowed, i think the first time ive seen it snow on christmas day. So even after our loss we still managed to save a bit of our christmas, opening my presents was the worst part and being with my family was the important thing to me.
  8. thanx guys, i guess im not the only 1 dealing with a loss around here. I hope your moms ok rbw, cancer's a b****** isnt it? and sorry i made the nice christmas post into a horrible one about ppl dying, lets change it back to a nice 1.
  9. this is gonna be the worst Christmas ever for me and i normally love christmas, dont read this if u dont wanna get depressed, but my grandad is really ill. It started in the summer when he was diagnosed with prostrate cancer AND stomach cancer. So in June he had his whole stomach removed, which i didnt even think could be done. We've spent the past few months getting him to eat and walk around again, he had good moments but then recently went worse. So last weekend he went into hospital and i was told he probably wont come out. I was so sure he would live thru the cancer and have a few more years. Anyway i found out a few days ago that the cancer has spread to his liver and basically he is dying. They cant tell us when but its sooner rather than later and so im guessin he will die over the christmas period. So i dont get a christmas this year and most of the family will probably spend some of the day in hospital. but every1 else have a nice christmas, enjoy it and make the most of it.
  10. "hey Mr DJ" that she did in the record store was by a band called N-Tyce. I think the other song was made up.
  11. lol thanx, kimmie used to have that game, its somewhat disturbing tho.
  12. i hope he knows im female, hes seen pictures and everything!
  13. ok what does that mean, im gonna have to stick it in a language converter.
  14. I would faint like a teenage girl at a justin timberlake concert :kekeke: :roll: :lolsign: i bet Julie knows that feeling :kekeke: hey i did not faint i just screamed a lot and nearly lost my voice, but if it was a jjfp concert i probably would faint, how annoying would that be!
  15. ive got 2 code reds but thats only bcoz some1 accidently put 2 Cds into 1 case. Ive kept it as a spare incase i scratch 1.
  16. lol i bet Will didnt feel great when he had to ride on that giant inflatable shark for sharktale either lol. It must be hard being a movie star and not being able to swim, there are so many times they have put him in water in his films, i hope they had a lifeguard available 4 him. :kekeke:
  17. yeah i used to always be online when the crazy ppl did and couldnt do much, but now i can do more to stop them they have stopped coming, maybe its bcoz they saw the potna team and got scared off lol.
  18. thats really weird that will2k was released so much earlier, thats no where near new year. Shows how dumb columbia are, they may aswell of released a christmas song in June.
  19. if say our dreams came true and Will did a tour after this album, do u think he will perform mainly the new album songs, or just loads of old skool stuff too? I think it would be better with the lists ppl are giving, like summertime, brand new funk, Boom, im all that, hes the dj. I would do anything to see all those songs live.
  20. lol it was columbia that said he was too old to be a rapper but it was Will himself that said he is too old for action movies. He said in I, Robot he could feel his knees goin. I dont think he will stick to that idea tho, i bet he gives up action but ends up going back to it, like lerkot said Bruce willis is still goin.
  21. ok im fine if ppl wanna like eminem, but what i dont understand is why we have to talk about him every day arrgghhh!! If u look at the top of the screen it says jazzy jeff and fresh prince, not jjfp and eminem. Its fine to talk about other rappers in the off topic boards (which this is not bcoz its the jjfp news board) but i dont understand why we always come back to eminem. And no AJ shouldnt be banned, why do u think he is a mod, bcoz he has been posting here longer than most of us and knows a lot about hip hop. Why would we take sides with a virtual non-poster over him???
  22. ooh ooh i know this one, at least what happened in the UK. Wild wild west came out just b4 the film, i think i heard it in august 1999 bcoz i was on holiday It got to number 1 in the UK. Then Will2k hit the radio around christmas and im guessin was released just b4 the new year along with willenium. I think will2k got to number 2 and i was so annoyed it didnt quite make another number 1. Then freakin it came in the new year, around march, it got released but didnt do that well. Then a few months later the video for so fresh apperaed but only on MTV base (a cable hip hop channel) and was never released.
  23. i said febuary to give time to promote it in the new year and then release it soon after.
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