The Legend of Will Smith (Time Magazine)
The Legend of Will Smith. How one man built a global movie-magnet machine. Will Smith plots his strategy for world domination from the head of the kingly wooden dining table in his sweeping Calabasas, Calif., home....more...Will Smith says he's not that talented (AP via Yahoo! News)
Will Smith says he's not a great actor ? but he's a hardworking one....more... Will Smith says hard work, not talent, made him a Hollywood star (Jam! Showbiz)
LOS ANGELES - Will Smith says he's not a great actor but he is a hardworking one. "I've never viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as . . . slightly above average in talent," the 39-year-old actor tells CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview scheduled to air Sunday....more... Will Smith Has A 'Ridiculous, Sickening Work Ethic' (AccessHollywood)
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (November 30, 2007) ? Will Smith says he?s not a great actor ? but he?s a hardworking one. ?I?ve never viewed myself as particularly talented. I?ve viewed myself as . . . slightly above average in talent,? the 39-year-old actor tells CBS? ?60 Minutes? in an......more... Will Smith says grit, not talent, made him a star (The San Francisco Examiner)
LOS ANGELES ( Map , News ) - Will Smith says he's not a great actor - but he's a hard-working one....more... WILL SMITH HEADED FOR GRAUMAN'S CEMENT: Actor to be immortalized during hand and footprint ceremony next month. (Eurweb)
*It's Will Smith's turn to join the ranks of Hollywood legends Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy and others, whose hands and feet are immortalized in the pavement outside of world-famous Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd....more... Winter treat: Oscar hopefuls will roar into town (The Charlotte Observer)
Charlotte moviegoers often grumble that good smaller films take too long to reach us. But look on the bright side: Holiday gift-giving lasts a month, at least at local theaters. Yes, the Oscar-qualifying films that blast into New York and Los Angeles by year's end will rain down on us all through January. And this is the time of year when Oscar hopefuls crowd together like greedy shoppers, ......more... The Week Ahead: Dec. 2-8 (New York Times)
The story of a struggling trumpet player in Madrid who returns to his native village in northern Spain on the death of his father, Félix Viscarret's debut feature, "UNDER THE STARS" ("Bajo las Estrellas"), won four awards ? best film, best actor (Alberto San Juan), best director and best first screenplay ? this year at Spain's national film festival in Malaga....more... JODIE FOSTER TO GET LEADERSHIP AWARD (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Jodie Foster ( Taxi Driver , Silence of the Lambs ) will add the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award to her collection of Oscars, Golden Globes and other awards. Lansing, former chief of Paramount Pictures, will present Foster with the award Tuesday at The Hollywood Reporter's 16th annual Women in Entertainment breakfast. The actress-director-producer "has consistently maintained a sensibility and ......more... |