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Will Smith Remakes The Karate Kid, Casts His Son in Lead

Cole Gamble — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT

Here is some more news on that Karate Kid remake that's gonna kick your precious childhood memories right in the nuts:

As you can imagine, any Karate Kid remake will require going through the paces of the original, such as the “wax on, wax off” scene. Except now they’d be updated with modern, yet even more tired references like, “Turn the Internet history on, turn the Internet history off. Clean the hard drive, side to side.” And you can bet you’ll get a Nintendo Wii product placement in that training sequence.

Not helping matters, the new Miyagi is reportedly Jackie Chan, who will deliver all this eastern wisdom with the mush mouth diction of the Elephant Man doing Jello shots on his birthday at Hooters.

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What do you think? New Karate Kid: Sign of the apocalypse or tolerable idea?

Readin', writin' and Dianetics?

Brett Singer — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT

First of all, before we go any further: Will Smith has a school? Apparently yes. He and his wife, Jada Pinkett (the ones with the potentially open marriage), are opening the New Village Academy in Calabasas, California.

Most of the stories I saw about this topic are about the fact that some believe that New Village will teach kids about Dianetics and other Scientological things.

Smith and Pinkett deny that they are Scientologists themselves, and also say that the school is "secular." Although some teachers at the school are Scientologists, but they also employ instructors from other religious backgrounds. The school uses educational methods espoused by Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, something called "study technology." There will also be classes in robotics, (which sounds a little advanced for K-6, but who knows), as well as yoga and etiquette.

If you want to know more about the place, the school's web site has some info. "A Message From the Founders" doesn't say who the founders are but it does give a glimpse of their educational philosophy. The Admissions Application has no mention of Thetans, the planet Venus, or Dianetics, for what that's worth.

I'm not 100% clear on how involved Jada and The Actor Formerly Known as The Fresh Prince are in this venture (maybe he'll be the Fresh Principal?). This article says that the couple wanted to open a school "for some 10 years now," which would seem to indicate that this wasn't a snap decision. I'm not so sure I would send my kids to a school that was founded by anyone with no educational background, regardless of whether or not they teach robotics.

So, Scientology aside, my question still stands: Will Smith and Jada Pinkett are opening a school? Really? If they open one near you, would you send your kids there?

image/source: Yahoo! Shine

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Will Smith is Open to Open Marriage

Hannah Tennant-Moore — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:46:00 GMT

Will Smith is all about honesty—not only with his wife of 11 years, but also apparently with celebrity reporters about said wife. He recently opened up to the UK magazine NOW about the possibility that he and Jada Pinkett Smith will engage in an open marriage.

Will says one of the keys to the happiness and mutual devotion of his long marriage is complete transparency. “I’m not going to say anything to my buddies that’s any different than what I say to my wife,” he said, which means that he has no problem admitting to Jada when he feels attracted to other women. “Our perspective is, you don’t avoid what’s natural and you’re going to be attracted to people,” he said.

For now, neither Will or Jada has acted on these “natural” impulses, but if either of them wanted to sleep with someone else, they would seek the other's approval first. Perhaps this openness is part of the reason that neither has felt what Will called the “need” to sleep around. When an affair is no longer taboo, but rather a possible reality to be carefully considered, it loses some of its appeal.

What do you married and partnered folks think? Is it better to keep fleeting attractions to yourself, so as to avoid making your partner jealous, or better to be open about your extramarital desires?

Photo: People

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Open a School

Jada Pinkett Smith: When Good Mamas Make Bad Music

Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:03:00 GMT

One of my very favorite Hollywood couples (intrigued already, aren't you?) is Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. They just seem to have it together and I love that they speak openly about their mutual respect, shared sense of humor and inability to keep their hands off of each other. So what if their kids' names are all variations of their own? And so what if they occasional make the ho-hum movie or are just a tad too uncomfortably glib about how freaking talented and confident their children are?

But today, after cringing through a David Letterman musical performance by the band Wicked Wisdom featuring Jada on the lead mic, I am quite worried that the magic has faded. Jada's performance is all crazy hair and awkward bouncing off of amps, not to mention the screeching non-singing. I even watched a video of another song to be sure that I wasn't unfairly judging (what? me?) the star for one uneasy foray as front-woman. Alas, that video was just as bad as the Letterman gig, and I'm actually quite accepting of many forms of female-angst, tortured lyrics and over-played electric type of music. But this? Oy.

While watching it, I felt like maybe Jada was trying out for last year's Rock Star: Super Nova and that she was the clear candidate for Dave Navarro to slam and send on her way in week one of the show. I also wondered if Jada was just taking her strange zealousness for how unfairly she feels the media has portrayed poor, little brainwashed "tigress" Katie Holmes and put it to a spoken-word, pseudo mosh-pittable tune. There's some talk that Wicked Wisdom will be hitting the stage as a part of Ozzfest, the annual tour that's committed to being free of charge to see this summer. While I think it may be best for the gorgeous mama to give back the mic for good, if she must perform with her band, I'd say this ticket price is just about right.

[photo credit: Arnaldo Magnani/Getty Images]