Will Smith

By noreply@blogger.com (Steven Barnes) Friend asked me what I thought about Will Smith being offered the Keanu Reeves role in "The Matrix". He turned it down for "Wild Wild West." Wow. Talk about bad choices. But he asked how I thought "Matrix" might have been different. You know, I have to answer that question differently now than I wo...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steven Barnes) I want to see "Valkyrie" today. Always liked Tom Cruise, even if he is more interested in being a star than an actor. More money in it. But I do get a bit disturbed by people's reactions to his Scientology beliefs. So he jumped on Oprah's couch. So what? He didn't hurt anyone. Didn't hit-and-run, bea...

By noreply@blogger.com (Steven Barnes) And after that? Well, it will be considerably "normed." People will wonder what all the fuss was about, cluck their tongues and blame "Hollywood" for taking so long to "catch up with the rest of America" (yeah, right...Will Smith is prejudiced against black men) and stick their heads back in t...