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4 Mar, 2005

Hitch

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Smith plays a a love doctor called Hitch who gets unmasked by a writer for a gossip magazine. While helping his latest client woo the fine lady of his dreams, the professional date doctor finds that his game doesn’t quite work on the gossip columnist with whom he’s smitten. Co-stars include Kevin James, Albert Brennaman, and Eva Mendes.

Absolutely. Love is the ultimate theme, but it’s not just for women. I think it’s also for men – it’s the highest desire to which we all aspire. We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don’t mean. We just want that person who is going to love us in spite of all those things.

10 Feb, 2005

Shark Tale

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Smith plays Oscar in this animated film alongside Martin Scorsee, Renee Zellweger, and Angelina Jolie. Oscar is a small but ambitious fish who dreams of making something of himself, and when a dropped anchor accidentally kills Frankie, Oscar is suddenly celebrated as “the shark killer.” Oscar’s overnight fame attracts the attentions of Lola, a slinky dragon fish who woos Oscar away from his steady date.

I did about six months of aqua marine studies. I had a fish that I used as a model and I followed him around for a while and met his family and everything. There’s a real depth to the fish lifestyle that I studied.

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19 Jul, 2004

Jet cover

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Smith appears on the cover of the July 2004 issue of Jet magazine. He talks about i Robot, his growth as an actor, and why music is his first love.

10 Dec, 1998

Rolling Stone cover

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Smith appears on the cover of the December 1998 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. He talks about politics, conspiracy, and cruel comedy.

Yeah, but the president sitting and gracefully fielding bizarre questions from intellectually barren inquisitors who talked to him as if he were Joe off the street? ‘Hey, man, that’s the president. Rephrase your f-cking question.’ The president should be exempt from having to answer questions from some dickhead prosecutor about a cigar.

25 Feb, 1998

Wins Grammy

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aSmith wins the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance for Men In Black.

Jan 1990

2 Too Many audition

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Every day Carter walks to Delaware Avenue, to the studio of DJ Jazzy Jeff (Townes) and the Fresh Prince (Smith). One day, a friend who is recording in the studio lets him in. Townes, Smith and Lassiter, Smith’s business partner are in the lounge. Carter:

We literally just walked into the room and said we want to play some music for you. Will told us to go ahead and pop the tape in. [The room was too small for our routine] so everyone went outside and we danced in the snow…They just fell in love with us. We pretty much sucked as a group. They loved us and our tenacity more than anything else.

Lassiter:

Every night someone was down there trying to get put on. It was something about these three kids and their personality and sense of humor that we responded to. I don’t remember if we thought they were talented or not. They just didn’t give up…We would just laugh at them. I remember plenty of times driving them home. I would say, ‘How are you getting home?’ They hadn’t thought it through. They didn’t have gloves. They didn’t have a Plan B.

Lassiter and Smith give 2 Too Many a record deal on their WilJam label.