October 27th, 2007 No Comments »
After Big Will got some well deserved attention for ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’ (leading to his second Oscar nomination) it seemed like the nicest guy in Hollywood (with the biggest tabs to match) was making it clear that he was slowly stepping away from the likes of ‘Bad Boys’ ‘Hitch’ and dare I say it, the long forgotten turd that was ‘Wild Wild West’ *shivers*.
Now news has arrived that Smith will be reuniting with the folks behind ‘Happyness’ for his upcoming film, ‘Seven Pounds’.
Directed by Gabriele Muccino (who also directed ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’) it tells the story of one man who falls in love at the oddest occasion – his attempted suicide.
Well that just sounds peachy, hopefully Mr. Smith will hold himself from pushing out any cheeky one liners when it comes to this sort of story.
Filming will begin in February, with an expected release date of 2008, after the release of Smith’s eagerly anticipated apocalyptic horror flick, ‘I Am Legend’.
October 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Will Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His charming and sly demeanor in school resulted in the nickname “Prince” which eventually turned into the “Fresh Prince.” While still in his teens, Smith began rapping and eventually began collaborating with Jeff Townes (a.k.a. D.J. Jazzy Jeff) whom he met at a party. He attended Overbrook High School in West Philadelphia. D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince was born with Smith handling the rhymes and Townes overseeing the mastery of mixing and scratching—the combination were a pop and hip-hop hit during the ’80s and early ’90s.
October 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
While it is widely reported that Smith turned down a scholarship to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Smith denied this in a Reader’s Digest interview stating, “My mother, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a friend who was the admissions officer at MIT. I had pretty high SAT scores and they needed black kids, so I probably could have gotten in. But I had no intention of going to college.” This is corroborated in a Wired interview where he states he never applied to MIT.
Despite the above, when Smith appeared on Inside the Actors Studio, he stated that he was admitted to the “pre-engineering program” at MIT.
