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Will Smith, pas trop convaincu par Tom Cruise
- www.pipole.net
- 5 décembre 2006
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Ne compter
sur Will Smith, pour changer de religion !
Le grand Tom
Cruise lui-même n’a pas réussi à le convaincre de rejoindre l’église de
scientologie. Et pour cause, le héros de iRobot, a peur de contrarier la mémoire
de sa grand-mère défunte, une fervente adepte de la religion baptiste.
J’ai parlé avec Tom de sa religion. Il y a des concepts
incroyables et merveilleux. Mais, mon épouse et moi nous ne croyons pas dans les
religions organisées. De plus, j’ai été élevé dans une famille baptiste. Si je
devenais scientologue, ma grand-mère se retournerait dans sa tombe» a déclaré
Will Smith.
Remarque
d'anti-scientologie: Oui mais peu de temps
après on apprend que Will smith a fait une
donation de 20'000$ à la scientologie ! (Voir article
ci-après)
Et
encore ceci:
Will Smith proche de la Scientologie
http://www.pipole.net
- 10
janvier 2008
Will Smith serait de plus
en plus proche de l’Eglise de Scientologie, une organisation religieuse,
considérée comme une secte dans la plupart des pays européens, rapporte Us
Weekly. Selon cette revue, l’acteur américain, actuellement à l’affiche de «Je suis
une légende», aurait procuré des tracts vantant les mérites de la scientologie
à quelques collaborateurs, sur les plateaux de son dernier film "Hancock".
L'acteur Will Smith
dément être membre de l'église de scientologie
Source: http://grioo.com/ar
- 23 mars 2008
Un
article de "Radar Magazine", devant paraître en avril, intitulé "Scientology
under siege" affirmait que l'église de scientologie visait également les
afro-américains, avait ouvert un centre à Harlem en 2003 et surtout, avait
recruté Will et Jada Pinkett Smith.
Will Smith, qui est un très bon ami
de Tom Cruise, sans doute le membre le plus célèbre de l'église de scientologie,
a nié son affiliation présumée à la scientologie :
"Vous ne devez pas
être juif pour être un ami de Steven Spielberg. Vous ne devez pas être musulman
pour être un ami de Mohammed Ali. Et vous n'avez pas besoin d'être scientologue
pour être un ami de Tom Cruise. "Je suis chrétien, j'étudie toutes les
religions. Et je respecte tous les peuples et tous les choix religieux".
Ce n'est pas la première fois que des journaux font état de la
"conversion" de l'acteur à la scientologie. Will Smith avait affirmé il y a quelques mois avoir découvert la scientologie
via Tom Cruise et ajoutait que 98% des idées contenues dans la bible étaient les
mêmes que dans la scientologie ou dans l'hindouisme et le bouddhisme.
Remarque
d'anti-scientologie: Willy Smith ferait aurait
mieux de s'abstenir de comparer dans sa réponse
ci-dessus la scientologie avec une religion. En
montre ainsi son ignorance du sujet et le fait qu'il
a ainsi gobé la propagande de son ami Tom Cruise
qui ne cesse de croire que la scientologie est une
religion comme les autres !.
Influençable
Will Smith ?
Will Smith's Charities Include Scientology
- http://www.foxnews.com/
- Friday, December 14, 2007
- By Roger Friedman
AP
Will Smith — charismatic,
friendly and polite — is also very charitable. His Will Smith Foundation has
given hundreds of thousands of dollars to local civic organizations in the
Baltimore and Philadelphia areas. Last year he was even one of the few clients
of Creative Artists Agency to give money to the talent agency’s own tax-free
fund ($2,500).
But here’s something you don’t know: After Smith’s wife,
Jada Pinkett, made "Collateral" with Tom Cruise in 2004, the couple donated $20,000 to
Scientology’s literacy campaign, called HELP, The Hollywood Education and
Literacy Program, which is the basis for Scientology’s home-schooling
system.
The 2005 contribution is listed in the federal filing for
The Will Smith Foundation for the previous year. Since that time, Smith’s
children have been home-schooled. This week, doing publicity for "I Am Legend,"
Smith reiterated his plan to start his own private school. Cruise may be hopeful about bringing Smith’s deep,
charitable pockets into Scientology, but it won’t be easy as the "I Am Legend"
actor has varied interests that already command his dollars.
For example, in 2005, HELP was not the The Will Smith
Foundation's top donation. That honor went to Yesha Ministries of Philadelphia.
Smith gave them $140,000. Yesha, founded by Charles
Coker, teaches Christian-based martial arts in Florida.
Smith likes Yesha so much he gave them another $125,000 last
year. That’s a lot of money for Tae Kwon Do. Among his other charitable
donations in 2006, Smith gave $7,500 to a group called Partners for Educating
Actors, Composers and Entertainers, or PEACE. No listing could be found for the
group on guidestar.org, where all U.S. charities are registered.
Cruise, meanwhile, will not leave Smith alone. He made a
"surprise" appearance at Smith’s Walk of Fame installation this week, then flew
to New York for the premiere of Smith’s new movie, "I Am Legend."
This is Cruise’s methodology from previous campaigns to
anoint new "friends." His PR history is filled with "surprise" visits and stiff
hugs for new "pals." He’s the only Hollywood star we ever see do this, and it’s
not because he’s so gregarious. In every case some kind of story follows about
Cruise and Scientology recruitment.
In this latest scenario, Smith seems somewhat won over after
Pinkett already had taken the lead. Smith continues to defend Cruise and
Scientology. Smith reiterated on "Access Hollywood" this week a similar idea he
presented in a men’s mag this month: that Scientology and the Bible are pretty
much the same.
He told "Access": "I was introduced [to] it by Tom and I’m a
student of world religion. I was raised in a Baptist household, I went to a
Catholic school, but the ideas of the Bible are 98 percent the same ideas of
Scientology, 98 percent the same ideas of Hinduism and Buddhism."
On at least a basic level, Smith might be thought incorrect
in that statement. Neither Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism nor, for that
matter, Judaism espouse the idea of space aliens occupying one’s body.
Just for the holiday aspect, Smith added a line — which can
be seen on the syndicated show’s Web site, that should get everyone in the mood
for rockin’ around the Christmas tree: "How can I condemn someone for what they
believe and I believe that God was born from a pregnant virgin?"
Casey Affleck's Rise; Warner Music Still Sinking; Patty Duke
Degree; Police Action
Yes, we make fun of the Golden Globes and the Hollywood
Foreign Press. But they did get a couple of things right this year. One,
especially, was Casey Affleck’s nomination for
Best Supporting Actor in "The Assassination of Jesse James."
I’ve been telling you, dear readers, about this performance
for months. No one has seen this movie, however. But Casey — who had to wait his
turn for stardom after brother Ben and pal
Matt Damon — deserves the Oscar for his
portrayal of Robert Ford, Jesse James’ killer. He’s also just great in Ben’s
"Gone Baby Gone."
So give the Globes a little credit. It must be due to
current president, Jorge Camara, who has asked
the Writers Guild for a waiver so the Golden Globes can go on.
Another excellent choice from the Globes is Ryan Gosling of "Lars and the Real Girl," a film not
to be missed. But the group’s big blunder was in ignoring Sidney Lumet’s "Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead."
THINKFilm had better get going on this one if they want Academy Award voters to
embrace it properly. ...
Patty Duke turned 61 on
Friday. Can you believe it? She’s been in the public eye her whole life. Her
original TV show was one of the greats. As a birthday gift, Duke picks up an
honorary doctorate from the University of North Florida for her work in
advancing awareness of mental health issues. Congrats. She’s survived Hollywood
where others have perished. ...
Warner M. Group (the M now stands for "miscellaneous," not
"music") hit another stock price low of $6.49 on Thursday. Bets are now being
taken for the moment WMG sinks below $6.
Ironically, WMG is selling hundreds of thousands of Josh Groban Christmas CDs. But savvy investors have
noted this is a fluke, that Groban is really the province of producer David Foster, and that otherwise WMG has vanished from
the charts.
What WMG really has become is a catalog company, with
greatest hits or box sets from Eric Clapton
and Led Zeppelin otherwise leading the way.
...
The Police reunion was the
top-grossing tour of 2007. The trio made $212 million through Nov. 13, the
cut-off date for the year-end tally. That means sold-out dates in South America
weren’t even included. More dates already are posted on the group’s Web site for
2008, and a DVD — filmed below the equator — should hit stores this spring.
Credit goes to group manager Kathy Schenker
and tour producer Arthur Fogel of Live Nation.
…
With Broadway back, all the actors are heading over to famed
Elaine Kaufman’s watering hole on the Upper
East Side when the shows are over. Bob Saget
just popped in from "The Drowsy Chaperone," where he’s playing the lead. We
reminisced about his very dirty telling of the comics’ joke in the movie "The
Aristocrats." He also confirmed that, at least for a minute, 36-year-old Lance Armstrong was dating 21-year-old Ashley Olsen.
"She’s like a daughter to me," Bob said of the twin who used
to appear with him on "Full House." ...
Thursday night, movie actor Bill
Pullman, currently off Broadway in Edward
Albee’s "Peter and Jerry," stopped in with Bobby Zarem and Paris Match writer Dany Jucaud.
A little later, British stars Rufus
Sewell and Sinead Cusack, from
Tom Stoppard’s "Rock and Roll," also came in.
The Stoppard play is the hippest thing on Broadway. Cusack is Mrs. Jeremy Irons in real life. She told me Irons has
seen the show "at least seven times" already. ...
Director James Toback made
his nightly appearance. …
Also Thursday night, the beautiful Kathryn Altman, widow of legendary director Robert, stopped in with pals, including costume
designer Dona Granata. Kathryn, married to Bob
for 50 years, is still screening films and making recommendations to Academy
friends even though she is not a voter. She’s a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson’s "There Will Be Blood" and the
Lumet film. She’s a woman of taste!
Will
Smith scientologist ?
There’s been lots of reports over the past couple of years that Will Smith
was getting more and more chummy with Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology.
They hit a fever pitch in the past week and gained the attention of Stephen
Colbert who remarkably remains brilliant even without his writers.
Video:
http://xenutv.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/will-smith-scientologist/
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