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Dede McGuire in Los Angeles, CA interviewing Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan about their new show, "Hawthorne" Tuesday nights on TNT. Funny interview. Just one thing: was the music necessary? 'Associated Press' Interview (showing new clips from the show):

Thanks for this. I loved this part: Haha! Mystery solved! EDIT: I've just seen you made a topic about it! :smile:

Steven Conrad Writing The Karate Kid The Hollywood Reporter's Risky Biz Blog is reporting that The Pursuit of Happyness screenwriter Steven Conrad is penning The Karate Kid for Columbia Pictures. Directed by Harald Zwart and starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith, the remake is scheduled for a June 11, 2010 release. Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson will play the mother. Newcomer Chris Murphy was originally hired to write the script of the reboot. Production will begin next month http://www.comingsoon.net/news.php?id=56308

Old 'Hitch' Interview (for those who hadn't seen it before, like me :smile: ) Pretty funny! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/video/895/film/Will-Smith---Hitch/

Interview with Denzel: (CBS) The new film "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" opened this weekend and Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith recently had the chance to sit down with one of the movie's stars, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington, about filming in his hometown of New York City. In the movie, New York City plays such an important role that it's comparable to a character. "Absolutely," said Washington, a Mt. Vernon, N.Y. native. For Washington, making a movie in his hometown was "a dream," he says. "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" was shot late at night in the actual subways after the evening rush hour and before the morning rush hour. "I've been the guy on the train at 3:00 in the morning when they slow down between stations and you see those guys out there working. 'What are they doing out there?' We were those guys," he said. Washington has a genuine craft when it comes to creating a character in his mind and bringing it to life on the big screen. "The character tells me as much as I determine. That was an instinct I had," he explained. "Probably just because I played a lot of cops. But it was just an instinct to not - 'what if he's not good with a gun? What if he doesn't know what to do?' He just happens to be the guy on the phone the day that Travolta's character calls. "And the writer ran with that. It's an interesting twist that Travolta's character, Ryder, befriends the guy (Washington's character, Walter Garber). He said 'I want to talk to that guy. I like that guy.'" Washington and Travolta can't actually see each other in the movie. "If we sat here now and did this interview with our eyes closed, it would be just as interesting," Washington said. "Because the other four senses take over. We still developed a relationship. We were there off camera for the other guy." "How is John?" Smith saked. "I haven't talked to him for a good two or three weeks or so. We talk for a long time, a couple hours. We laugh one minute and cry the next. He's just -he's tougher," Washington said. With a long list of films, the shortest list for the actor is comedies. According to Smith, Washington is "funny." "You know, I shouldn't talk about it, but I'll just say that Will Smith and I are working on a project," Washington admitted. "We're working on a script now. Hopefully we'll make it next year. "But we were working on it a little bit in London last summer. We were fooling around, improvising. He said, 'Don't worry, Denzel. You don't have to be the funny guy. You can be the straight guy.' I look forward to the opportunity." Smith showed Washington a picture of himself as a child, which is featured on the Boys & Girls Club of America's advocacy ad campaign, "Be Great America". Washington says he remembers that day. "I think I was in the third or fourth grade maybe. Maybe fifth grade. But I was dead serious. I looked like I knew I was going places, didn't I?" he joked. As the son of a preacher, Washington recalls a special moment that changed his life, which occured in his mother's beauty parlor. "This woman was known to have the gift of prophecy. She said, 'Somebody bring me a piece of paper.' She said, 'young man, you're going to preach to millions of people.' By the way, I'd been kicked out of school at this point. I was trying to figure out what to do with my life. "She said, 'I have this prophecy.' Do you see anything in there about me getting back in school?" Washington joked. "I kept the piece of paper and started acting that fall." With a great sense of humor, Washington also respects both the audience and himself. "I don't take myself too seriously," he said. "Listen, they spend a lot of money making these movies. People don't have a lot of money to go to them. So, I try to do the best job I can. I don't take it lightly. I mean, I try to work hard." "The Taking of Pelham 1,2 3" can be seen in theatres nationwide. Video! http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/15/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main5089631.shtml# ---------------------------- There you go, Brakes! ;)

Jealousy? :laugh:

Cool. Thanks! This probably has been posted before or you may have seen it, but it's new for me: "New" 'HawthoRNe' Spot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nqF_vVewOg "New" Pictures http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1382367/mediaindex

Jada will be on "The Late Show with David Letterman" this coming Friday, June 19. She will also appear on "The View" tomorrow, June 16.

Jada on the 'Today Show': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1VIHl22UVY&hl=es

More pics from that magazine: Cover:

More than deserved! Congratulations Lakers!

This was on Jada's facebook, but I had to post it here. I just love ads, posters and all that stuff: I also found another poster: * This poster is wrong by the way. The show premieres JUNE 16, this is, next Tuesday

The Beatles - Help!

Haha, yeah! I used to hate that song. It's... just... ridiculous, LOL!

I've never been an 'Aqua' fan. I don't even know if I like them or not. And I never thought I'd say this, but man... this song is DOPE!!! Lyrics: Back in the Ronald Reagan days When we put sattelites in space When boys wore skinny leather ties Like Don Johnson from Miami Vice When M&M was just a snack And Michael Jacksons skin was black Back when the coolest thing in store Was a Commodore 64 Back to the 80's Back to Soap Back to Rocky and Cherry Coke Those were the days And we go Back to the 80's And hey there Mr.T To Twisted Sisters on MTV, yeah Those were the days I come back To Iron Maiden and 7UP Bananarama and Breakfast Club Come Back, Yeah Come Back, Yeah I Come Back When Huey Lewis was the news When we went flying with Tom Cruise When shoulderpads and looking tough Lost a dare to David Hasselhof To many men with heavy makeup on To many poodles with guitars Thanks for all the joy you've given us You will always be our superstars Back to the 80's Back to Soap Back to Rocky and Cherry Coke Those were the days And we go Back to the 80's And hey there Mr.T To Twisted Sisters on MTV, yeah Those were the days I come back To Iron Maiden and 7UP Bananarama and Breakfast Club Come Back, Yeah Come Back, Yeah I Come Back Hooray for Cosby and Rubicks Cube Hooray for Dynasty and Moon Boots Hooray for Devo and Barber Curls Hooray for Poltergeist and Barbie Girls Back to the 80's Back to Soap Back to Rocky and Cherry Coke Those were the days Lets go back Back to the 80's To Mr.T To Twisted Sisters on MTV, yeah Those were the days I come back To Iron Maiden and 7UP Bananarama and Breakfast Club Come Back, Yeah Come Back, Yeah Lets go back ----------- Just love the lyrics. It's so catchy!! I'd like to know AJ's opinion since I believe he likes (or liked) 'Aqua'. Correct me if I'm wrong ;)

More interviews: http://www.movieweb.com/news/NElVVmlllxREpo

'I Gotta Go Home' is probably my favorite song from the 'Born To Reign' album after 'I Can't Stop'.

And more articles... Jada Pinkett Smith returns to the tube on TNT She's the wife of Will Smith, the world's most popular movie star and a man whose net worth is about $220 million, but that's no automatic ticket to ride for Jada Pinkett Smith. "It's funny," the actress said. "You'd think that it would help my career in ways that it doesn't. It's hindered it because, in the position I'm in, I don't need anything. I don't need the work, so I'm not at anybody's mercy. That's definitely a position of power that not everyone wants to deal with. "And there's the pressure. If I'm there, that means Will will be there. Not everybody wants to deal with that all the time either." Pinkett Smith is speaking by telephone from a makeup chair on the Los Angeles set of "Hawthorne," the new TNT series in which she stars as the title character, the chief nursing officer of a hospital in Richmond, Va. It has been almost 20 years since Pinkett Smith, now 37, came to Hollywood as an 18-year-old and was quickly cast as a college freshman on the television sitcom "A Different World" (1991-1993). But it was her turn opposite several versions of Eddie Murphy in "The Nutty Professor" (1996) that put the young actress on Tinseltown radar screens. Of West Indian, Creole and Portuguese-Jewish descent, the Baltimore native speaks with a slight drawl and sounds easygoing. But beneath the surface charm, the 5-foot-tall actress is, by her own account, nobody to mess with. "If I had been given a bigger body," she said, "I might have had more problems and issues. But, because I'm small, I think people can take doses of me a bit easier. I have huge energy. I'm relentless, I don't take no for an answer. When I really, really want to get something done, very rarely does it not happen." If you've seen Pinkett Smith in the movies or on television and she didn't seem that short, it's because most of the time she's perched on 4-inch platform heels. For "Hawthorne," in the interest of realism, Pinkett Smith tones that down to 31/2 inches. "I don't wear 4-inch heels on the show because I'm walking through a hospital all day," she said. "They can't be too high!" She has acted in some 25 films, including "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003), "The Matrix Revolutions" (2003), "Collateral" (2004) and "The Women" (2008). One of her most ironic gigs, given her diminutive size, was as the voice for Gloria the hippopotamus in "Madagascar" (2005) and "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" (2008). Lately, however, Pinkett Smith has been as active behind the scenes as she has onscreen. She wrote, directed and appeared in "The Human Contract," about a troubled business executive (Jason Clarke). She also served as executive producer for "The Secret Life of Bees" (2008), a drama with Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah. She and Smith are co-producing another feature, which will star their 10-year-old son, Jaden, who made his film debut with a featured role as the son of Smith's character in "The Pursuit of Happyness" (2006). Jaden's budding acting career and Pinkett Smith's commitment to "Hawthorne" have delayed her plans to take her heavy-metal band, Wicked Wisdom, back on the road. "But I have a dear passion for that music," she said. "We're going to put up some videos on our Myspace page." Her primary professional focus, however, is "Hawthorne." As the willful Christina Hawthorne R.N., Pinkett Smith takes her first lead role in a television series and also dons the mantle of executive producer. Hawthorne heads a group of nurses at a chaotic urban hospital, putting out one fire after another while mourning her husband's recent death and butting heads with her rebellious daughter and her controlling mother-in-law. "Christina thinks she can be all things to all people," Pinkett Smith said, "but that's an idea that's going to bite her." The character is modeled upon her own mother, a registered nurse who read the pilot script when Pinkett Smith was debating taking on the series. "She said, 'You better do this,' " the actress recalled. "My mom is an uber-problem-solver. There's nothing she can't fix, to a certain degree." Still working as a nurse, Adrienne Banfield serves as a "private consultant" to her daughter on "Hawthorne," as well as helping out with her grandkids, 8-year-old Willow, Jaden and 16-year-old Trey, Smith's son by a previous marriage. The Smiths usually try to alternate projects, so that one parent can be at home with the children. "Like right now," Pinkett Smith said. "Will is not working, while I am." The three children attend the New Village Leadership Academy, which the Smiths co-founded in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, Calif. Some have characterized the academy as a religious school whose teaching methods are based on principles of Scientology, but Pinkett Smith denies that. "It's not true," she said. "I have absolutely nothing against Scientology, but it's not a Scientology school. It's a purely secular school. We use Study Tech, which is a philosophy of teaching, but it's not Scientology." According to a Church of Scientology Web site, Study Technology, aka Study Tech, is an approach to teaching developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and "first described in a series of 1964 lectures at the Scientology training academy" in England. Study Tech, it says, is "used throughout Scientology in all churches and it is widely used outside the church in schools and businesses." Not that Pinkett Smith sees herself as an educator. Since she was 3, the actress says, she has known that she wanted to be a performer. "I played the Wicked Witch in 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was pretty much it," she said. "I just knew then that was what I wanted to do. My mother knew that was what I was born to do, so she always pushed me to make it happen." She first met Smith when, at 19, she auditioned to play his girlfriend on the hit sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990-1996). She didn't get the part, since the producers deemed her too short to be paired with the 6-foot-2-inch Smith, but she got the guy eventually. "Actually, we didn't start dating until years later," Pinkett Smith said. "We were friends for many, many years." In 1997 they married, and for 12 years their marriage has been a model of stability amid the Hollywood tornado. What's their secret? "Spirituality and friendship," she said. "You have to be best friends. You've got to want to be with this person all day long, every day if necessary. You need to enjoy each other outside of sex and have great conversations and aim for the goals you've agreed on." It's hard to say how Pinkett Smith's career might have gone if she hadn't married a superstar the year after "The Nutty Professor," her breakthrough film. The only thing she's sure of is that it would have been much different. "I work because I love what I do," she said, "but the politics of the game get in the way. Some people think that I'm not interested in working: 'Why would she want to work? She doesn't have to.' But I've learned to work all the downsides to my advantage. "The upside is that I know, when people come knocking on my door, that it's a very serious thing and that they really, really want me," Pinkett Smith said. "That's good. It weeds out a lot of crap." http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=142873 -------------------------------------- Pinkett-Smith: 'I'm Too Short to Play Mrs. Obama' "Hawthorne" star Jada Pinkett-Smith tells "Extra" she'd love to play Michelle Obama on the big screen, but says she'd have to grow a few inches! Jada confesses, "Michelle is tall. I'm way too short. If I felt like I could represent her in a way that I feel like she should be represented, I absolutely would." Pinkett-Smith says whoever plays her "has to be her height. I'm like 4'11". It's not me." This summer the Pinkett-Smith family is going to Beijing for over two months! Jada tells "Extra," "Will and I are producing our son's movie, 'Kung Fu Kid.'" The family flick is a remake of the classic "Karate Kid" and stars Jayden Smith, Jackie Chan and Taraji P. Henson. http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2009/06/pinkett-smith_im_too_short_to.php

I agree! Jay Z & Linkin' Park - Numb/Encore

Another article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/arts/television/14roch.html

Sorry Brakes, I can't find another link for this video. :unsure:

Haha! Thanks for all this Ash. It was a great read! ;) I liked this part: and also this one: One thing though: in this picture, the description says: Oscar winner Will Smith and Jawn Murray celebrate the premiere of Jada Pinkett Smith's TV series 'HawthoRNe' at the SLS hotel in Los Angeles. Didn't know Will has won an Oscar, LOL! Plus, we had to post this: What about her husband? Will he make a cameo as well? "Will has come on the show. He's an extra on one of the episodes. See if you can catch him. He does a drive by. We could hardly afford that. It was a very costly walk by," she closed. More 'HawthoRNe Pictures! http://backseatcuddler.com/2009/06/11/jada-pinkett-smith-hawthorne-looks-fab-photos/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3nzCSvnzQ&e

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Live 1988 Does anyone know which concert is this? I wish we had the video! Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgdC4KY8Rvw Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDhKbNYL_nw

So true. And despite that, it's still my favorite WS Solo Album. I'd add 'Candy'. Love that song :cool: