funny you mention the responsibility of the actors themselves. People like Redford, Newman, Morgan Freeman, the late Robert Urich--all live or lived outside of Hollywood and were very careful with interviews, where they hang out, etc.
As for Smith, I just listened to a podcast of him on Tavis Smiley last week. He says the reason so many actors don't blow up like he did is precisely because they :*don't* talk to the media as much as he does, at least, in terms of promoting his movies. Smith says he literally travels the world on press junkets, going from South America to China, and he says few of his peers do that. You can't expect to pull in big box office all the time, he told Smiley, if you won't get out there and promote your work. He also had some interesting things to say about being Black in Hollywood and what it means to him. Bottom line was he feels Black actors would do better in Hollywood if they just simply refused to have the door shut on them. He wasn't denying the problem, just has the mindset that he will succeed no matter the obstacle--or die trying. -------------- Original message -------------- From: Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1. I am ready for Martin to write his autobiography. You have one book sold here, brother. 2. I agree 100% about ³push the mike aside and walk on. Recently, Japanese pop singer Izumi Sakai died. She was member #1 and lead singer of the group ³ZARD², who have many popular hits. Izumi made, I believe, 5 or 6 TV appearances over 10 years, unheard of for a popular Japanese singer. But it was this that made her even more popular. Because you don¹t see her often, when you did -- it was a big deal. I believe that the ³paparazzi² problem in this country is a 50/50 shared problem. You don¹t see Harrison Ford (for example) quoted or pictured in tabloids because he lives on a ranch in Wyoming. So when he comes to Hollywood, it¹s to work. The more accessible you are, the more you run the risk of playing yourself. The math just catches up to you. Will has been in everything from Men¹s Vogue to you name it to promote ³I Am Legend². It¹s his way. So for this to be one misquote over something he¹s said -- not bad. Now, make it difficult to get a Will Smith interview from now on, and his problem is solved. Will has enough friends who know damn well he¹s not saying Hitler was good¹, and all of those friends have the ability to hire him in the future. He¹s a brand. Nokia is also a brand. And there are Nokia phones you can get for $20 at AT&T with a 2 year plan and there is Vertu, Nokia¹s $5,000 phone you can buy that comes with concierge service. You cannot send or receive email on a Vertu, and it¹s not even a great looking phone, but it is such an exclusive brand that people drop the 5 grand and keep it moving. You are hard pressed to find an ad for Vertu. By the time you see one, you¹ve already spent $32 on a magazine. So I¹m with Johnny Depp. Let the work speak for itself, and move out of the way of the ³press². The money will come. On 12/26/07 10:21 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > i hear you, i feel for celebs and the fishbowls in which they live. Then there > are the ones who *seek* the press, yet bemoan their treatment. > okay, so what did you say (or do) after this fire?! > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:truthseeker_013%40yahoo.com> > > I know that, in H'Wood, microphones are stuck in celebs' faces with annoying > regularity, leaving them with no option but to say something. As we all know, > too often, this evokes off-the-cuff responses that can be translated in a > myriad of ways. Mind you, I'm not saying that Smith actually said anything to > this effect, or defending the fact that he said it. Myself, I've only had one > mike stuck in my face in my life, that at one of the worst possible moments of > my life (as I watched my apartment burning). What I said was easily > translatable and, had there not been two large members of DeKalb County's > Finest on hand at the moment, would've resulted in a long term of > incarceration for yours truly. IMO, the best thing to do in that sitch, not > readily available for celebs like Smith, is to push the mike away and walk on. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote: > Statements like this almost always get you in trouble, no matter what you > intend. Whenever you say that an evil person didn't set out to do evil, it's > bound to cause issues. I'm not sure what the exact quote from Smith is, as he > obviously seems to think he was misquoted... > > ******************* > http://www.examiner.com/a-1122731~Will_Smith_Angered_by_Misinterpretation.html > LOS ANGELES (Map, News) - Will Smith is angry over celebrity gossip Web site > articles that he said misinterpreted a recent remark he made in a Scottish > newspaper about Adolf Hitler. In a story published Saturday in the Daily > Record, Smith was quoted saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do > the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and > using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was > 'good.'" > The quote was preceded by the writer's observation: "Remarkably, Will believes > everyone is basically good." > Over the weekend, dozens of celebrity gossip Web sites posted articles about > the comment, many saying that Smith believed that Hitler was a "good" person. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get > organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A > Country" > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! 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