News about the life and career of Jada Koren Pinkett Smith, her band Wicked Wisdom, and Carol's Daughter.
Jada Pinkett-Smith, who was last seen in "Reign Over Me," will make her directorial debut with "The Human Contract." Will Smith and his producing partner James Lassiter will produce through their Overbrook Entertainment. Casting is still ongoing. Shooting is expected to start on Nov. 5 in Los Angeles.
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I guess it would be Janeane, the girl in Reign Over Me. Janeane is Don Cheadle's wife and she's a stay-at-home wife and mother having a difficult time with the resurgence of the friendship between the characters of Adam Sandler's character and Don's [after Sandler's family dies on 9/11].
How can I be sad?
Well 9/11 brought up a lot of questions and helped me redefine and really look at life and look how I was really seeing things. It helped me understand the necessity to have understanding. It got me back into the idea of making sure my children had an understanding of all religions before they decide what they want to practice.
Deal or no deal?
Deal! We're filming the pilot for my TV show MILF and Cookies and it's coming along. For our show MILF means "mother I'd like to figure out". It has many different meanings actually. It just depends how crude you want to go with it. It just so happens ours is not so crude.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Actually I don't. But I've been there. I've flown there.
Who do you love?
I love my husband. I love my family [children Jaden and Willow, with Will Smith]. I love my friends. And I love myself very much. I would say that last bit has been a journey. I think that's just part of growing up. You're constantly transforming and constantly trying to keep up with yourself. As long as we stay on top of ourselves and we are responsible for ourselves I think it's not that hard.
How deep is your love?
Very deep. I love people very deeply and very hard.
Who are you fighting for?
No one really at this point in time to be honest. Not even myself. I'm pretty much done with the fighting.
Who needs guitars anyway?
Oh absolutely. We definitely need guitars. My band Wicked Wisdom is about to go into the studio to do a second album so we're excited about that. We're going to tour but we don't want to go back out until we have our new material.
Who killed the electric car?
Well shame on them for killing the electric car but that's a good question. We have a Lexus hybrid SUV at home though. We enjoy it very much.
What are you doing for the rest of your life?
Good question. Isn't that quite the mystery? I don't know how much I will be acting. I have to be really tempted by something. I get offered a lot of things but they're not necessarily good which is one of the reasons I'm moving a little behind the scenes. I decided to do this film because I was really intrigued not necessarily by the role of Janeane but the idea of the movie. I like what it's saying.
Who let the dogs out?
I have lots of dogs and usually we let the dogs out to protect the perimeter. We've got five and they're all mutts. Sometimes we walk the dogs but they need to be walked about three times a day so we have people who come and walk them if we can't. But usually at weekends we take our dogs for hikes up into the hills.
Is this it?
No. I wouldn't say "this is it". It's never "this is it" for me.
· Reign Over Me is out now
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Though her husband Will Smith and she are both successful film stars, Jada Pinkett said she would willingly give up acting if it ever came down to a choice between career and marriage.
'I'm aware how busy careers can quickly lead to divorce, but I'm not going to let that happen to us,' she said.
'I'll give up my career before I let it break up our marriage. I made it clear to Will that I'd throw it away completely, which is what I'm doing to a certain extent.'
Married for 10 years, Jada and Will have two children - their son Jaden Christopher, 8, who recently starred with his father in 'The Pursuit Of Happyness', and daughter Willow, 6, reports www.hollywood.tv
In her latest film 'Reign Over Me', Jada plays a wife who's trapped in an unhappy marriage, a role that conversely taught her even more what it takes to make a marriage work.
'Even though you have this union as husband and wife, you can never forget who you are, just simply as yourself.
'If you lose yourself then everything else will fall out. There is no relationship to be had if you don't have a relationship with yourself first,' she said.
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At a mere 5ft, Jada Pinkett Smith may be petite, but the 35-year-old actress/singer and TV producer lives life large with her husband of ten years, movie star Will Smith. They have two children - a son Jaden, eight (who co-starred alongside his dad in The Pursuit Of Happyness) and daughter Willow, five. Jada is best known for her roles in The Nutty Professor, The Matrix and Collateral. Her new film, Reign Over Me, explores the effect on a man of losing his family on 9/11.
WHAT WERE YOUR DREAMS AS A CHILD?
To be a star! (Laughs) Oh yes, since I was three I wanted to be a star. I’ve achieved my dream. Once I got that first movie, I was like: ‘Done!’ Finished!’
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU ARE TRYING TO QUIT BUT CAN’T?
I'm one of those people who likes to do 100 things at once. There’s my heavy metal band Wicked Wisdom, as well as acting and producing television shows and movies - so I’m trying to focus on one. It’s a hard thing, because I’m a creative person and I’m constantly coming up with new ideas and find it hard to put anything on the backburner.
WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR WITH?
Will. That could be so sexy...no windows. We could have some fun.
YOU AND WILL HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. WHAT’S THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE AT HOME?
You can’t have two superstars in the family. I will never have Will’s career, and I can’t do that because my kids wouldn’t have parents.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST EXTRAVAGANCE?
I’M a jewellery whore! I’m not wearing much today but it’s only the morning...
WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST REGRET?
I have a few, but I’ve realised that without those regrets I wouldn’t even be close to the person I am today. I always say that pain is a blessing, because pain is the biggest motivator for change.
ARE YOU AN OPEN BOOK WHEN IT COMES TO EMOTIONS?
Who me? Ah no! I’ve learned that you cannot let emotions run you, but that you have to be in tune and connected to how you feel.
WHAT’S THE MOST ROMANTIC THING WILL’S DONE FOR YOU?
He's always doing really romantic things for me. If I’m going to a city to do a Press call, he’ll call the hotel and tell them to lay rose petals from the door to the bedroom and then he’ll have them arrange a heart in rose petals on the bed with a note inside saying: ‘I miss you already - love, Me.’
DO YOU THINK YOU ARE MORE LIKE YOUR MOTHER OR YOUR FATHER?
Both. All of my creativity and my wild mental journeys come from my father and I would say that my attitude, and my go-get-them kind of spirit would be from my mother.
WAS THERE A DEFINING MOMENT WHEN YOU REALISED YOU WERE FAMOUS?
I still haven’t realised that yet. It’s crazy because I’ve never looked at myself in that way. I’m still waiting for that defining moment.
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR WEIRDEST EXPERIENCE WITH A FAN?
You'd think Will would get the crazies, but no -it’s my little 5ft-nothing ass! I had a weird experience in London once. A maid got into my hotel room and left notes for me in a Bible telling me how God had made a calling to her that I was going to save her. She got my mobile number and she was leaving me messages. It was a scary one.
WHAT’S YOUR GUILTY PLEASURE?
Haagen Dazs Egg Nog ice cream. Once I have a taste of that, consider it an empty carton.
YOUR NEW FILM IS ABOUT 9/11. WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO STAR IN IT?
I play the wife of a man (Don Cheadle) whose best friend (Adam Sandler) loses his family on 9/11. The story was interesting in that it explored the people who’ve been left behind, and who’ve lost loved ones. It makes you appreciate what you have.
by TIFFANY ROSE
8th April 2007
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The Matrix producer Joel Silver experienced the actor-producer-singer's fury first hand just two days before the premiere of his blockbusting sci-fi sequel.
After a falling out over a promotional appearance on MTV that would have included a shopping tour (Pinkett Smith thought the idea cheesy), she and her famous spouse refused to appear at the star-studded after party.
The 35-year-old mother of two says strong women, such as the character she plays in her latest film, the post-September 11 buddy movie Reign Over Me, get a bad rap.
"Feminine energy, even at its most subtle, can be overwhelming. So you start to understand why very extroverted feminine energy can be offensive and misunderstood.
"At the same time, you have to be who you are. You can't conform to the pleasures of others, so you have to surround yourself with people who can handle that strength."
People such as Smith, who Pinkett Smith describes as a human dynamo.
"He couldn't be the megastar - mega man - that he is without being incredibly powerful," says his wife of 10 years. "You can understand why he would need a woman of intense power to be by his side."
Son Jaden is obviously drawing from the same high-voltage power grid as his A-list parents.
Last year the assured eight-year-old turned in a critically acclaimed performance opposite his Oscar-nominated father in The Pursuit Of Happyness.
"You wish you could take credit for your kids," says Pinkett Smith, "but the truth is, Jaden was born that way."
Far from discouraging her children from joining what she describes as the "family business", the actress actively embraces the idea.
"I hope to God my kids decide the entertainment business is something they want to do, because that's an area where Will and I could give great advice."
Pinkett Smith doesn't believe the celebrity life is any tougher to survive,intact, than any other.
"Life is tough. If you try to protect your kids ... well, that's a fallacy. It's not going to happen. You have to give your kids the tools they need to cope with life."
She acknowledges the challenges involved in living a life under the media microscope, but says, "My kids have grown up with that. For them, it wouldn't be as much of an adjustment as it was for Will and I. They were born into it, they don't know any different. They're ahead of the game, if you know what I mean."
On the other hand, it's quite possible that Jaden, daughter Willow, 6, and Will's son Trey, 14, from his previous marriage to actress Sheree Zampino, may well decide they want nothing to do with the crazy world of showbusiness. And that would be all right with her too.
"Doctor, nurse, trash man ... it's all the same to me."
Pinkett Smith, who gained widespread attention for her role opposite Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor (1996), plays an underappreciated dentist's wife in Reign Over Me, the latest film from director Mike Binder (The Upside Of Anger).
Don Cheadle plays her husband, Alan, a decent man in the grip of a mid-life crisis. He finds an unlikely lifeline in a chance encounter with his college room mate (a serious Adam Sandler), a man who has been traumatised by the death of his wife and two daughters. Alan finds Charlie's untethered lifestyle strangely liberating.
Their relationship - forged around late-night movies, pub gigs and jam sessions - puts him back in touch with his inner adolescent.
Pinkett Smith, who moon-lights as the frontwoman for a "progressive/aggressive" metal band, understands the attraction.
"I look at the Don Cheadle character and see a guy who has lost his identity in being a husband and father," says Pinkett Smith. "There's an imbalance there because he doesn't have a life other than his family life. He doesn't get to be himself.
"For me music gives me an outlet that is separate from my identity as a mother, wife, and even a movie star."
The name of her band is Wicked Wisdom.
"Wicked is a West Indian term - bad meaning good, wisdom meaning woman. So it's one bad woman."
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BALTIMORE -- Jada Pinkett Smith donated $1 million to the high school from which she graduated and asked that a theater there be dedicated to one of her classmates, Tupac Shakur.
The Baltimore School for the Arts announced the donation for a renovation and expansion on Monday, and said it will name its new theater for her.
The donation comes from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, which is based in Baltimore. They had previously given $112,500 to the school.
When a $30 million expansion program is finished in the fall of 2007, the school will increase its enrollment from 316 to 375 students.
"It means a lot when you're a teacher and your most famous alumnus comes back to give a donation," said Donald Hicken, head of the school's theater department since its founding in 1980 and Pinkett Smith's former theater teacher. "It really says a lot to the community that the school matters in people's lives."
Karen Banfield Evans, executive director of the Smith Family Foundation, and Pinkett Smith's aunt, said the actress was moved by the school's advances since she graduated in 1989.
Pinkett Smith wanted the theater named for Shakur because of the friendship they developed at the school. Shakur died in 1996 after a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.
Pinkett Smith has appeared in such movies as "Ali," "Collateral" and the Matrix series. Most recently, she was the voice of the hippo Gloria in the animated film "Madagascar."
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Taking a break from her acting career, Jada Pinkett Smith heads up nu-metal rock band, Wicked Wisdom.
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'Matrix' actress shows her metal side
"You're not supposed to separate yourself from your people," Fisher said.
As a celebrity who is often supposed to be inaccessible to the public, Pinkett Smith, 34, said Wicked Wisdom affords her the opportunity to inhabit an "accessible space. ... You have to find a way to connect with your audience. I can't create any other way."
The band is on the final leg of a tour to promote its debut album, which dropped late last month. Playing the River City was a good time, Pinkett Smith said, and she hopes to return.
"We won't be back for Derby — but we will be back."
Reporter Angie Fenton can be reached at (502) 582-7143.
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A palette of colors ruled the red carpet
Colors taken from nature - flowers, birds and the earth - ruled the red carpet this year, with fashion trends all over the rainbow.
And in most cases, it worked.
Canary yellow isn't an easy color, but Michelle Williams managed to carry it off in a gown decked with a flattering ruffled V-neckline, accented by a 19th-century diamond fringe necklace from Fred Leighton.
Salma Hayek electrified in a vibrant blue gown, and Jennifer Lopez glowed in green. Jada Pinkett Smith was toned and buff in a bright blue strapless column gown by Roberto Cavalli.
Jessica Alba sparkled like Oscar himself in gold Versace and cited her unique regimen for fitting into an Oscar dress. "I exercise, drink water and eat dessert."
Several stars chose to go light, opting for various shades of cream.
These included Reese Witherspoon in a V-necked, sweeping gown, featuring rows of silver beads; Nicole Kidman in a strapless sheath adorned with elaborate decorative braid across the front; and Uma Thurman in a cap-sleeved, chiffon-skirted affair.
Presenter Naomi Watts joined in the ruffled look, wearing a one-shoulder soft pink Givenchy. She was at the Oscars to introduce Dolly Parton, who jokingly deemed herself the "Southern belle of the ball" as she made her way to the door of the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Parton was also pretty in pink in a gown designed by Robert Behar of Paris. She wore $2 million in diamonds from Fred Leighton.
Black was also back. Rachel Weisz was demure in a that shade from Narciso Rodriguez, and cited pregnancy hormones as the reason for her unusual sense of calm.
"Otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to speak right now," she told one interviewer.
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Huffman was also decked out in black, in a sweeping gown with a plunging neckline. She teared up and smeared her makeup when she viewed a clip of her "Desperate" co-stars wishing her luck. Jennifer Aniston was in a black tank gown by Rochas with a long train and a vintage platinum-and-diamond Bulgari necklace from the 1930s.
For some attendees, there was no need to accessorize with a bag. Amy Adams wore a chocolate Carolina Herrera gown with pockets. Sandra Bullock's elegant strapless navy blue gown from Angel Sanchez also had them, so that her date, Keanu Reeves, "wouldn't have to hold anything for her."
Charlize Theron was wrapped in a forest-green, handpainted gown with an enormous bow on one shoulder designed by John Galliano for Christian Dior.
Keira Knightley looked sultry in an eggplant-color Vera Wang gown made of taffeta. It was complimented by a necklace of emeralds, rubies and diamonds from the Bulgari archives and gold sandals with multiple ankle straps by Jimmy Choo. The one-shoulder form-fitting dress gave even Knightley herself pause.
"I can't actually walk," she noted. "But I can stand rather well."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Will Smith is banished from his actress wife Jada Pinkett's dressing room when she prepares for big awards shows because he's too much of a prankster. Jada reveals she can't risk her fun-loving husband ruining her look and insists he leaves her alone while she dresses.
Wearing Roberto Cavalli to the Oscars last night, Jada insisted Smith gave her a morning to herself.
Speaking on the red carpet last night, she said, "On days like this he has a separate dressing room because Will likes to clown and he likes to play too much and really this is a very serious situation, so we have to keep our rooms separate."
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