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List of Reasons We Love Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith is our number three girl crush behind Angela Bassett and Michelle Pfeiffer. You know you love her too -- it's hard not to, right? She's this stunning, bold, hilarious woman who's married to a huge movie star, but still has her own thing going on, and she's shooting a new pilot for TNT!

List of Reasons We Think Jada's The Greatest:

1. Because she's so BADASS in the Matrix movies. Do you think she's wears that leather outfit around the house? Because we totally would...

Dave Letterman and Gillian Anderson Relive Their Makeout Session

As noticeably pregnant Gillian Anderson visited David Letterman while on her talk-show rounds promoting the new X-Files movie this week, the chat quickly moved toward her appearance on the show a few years ago. Because, as video evidence proved, that one involved some major making out.

Of course, Dave has smooched with plenty of guests, from Julia Roberts to Will Smith. But this was almost like two teenagers steaming up the windows in the back of a car. And stranger still, it looked as if it was Scully who started the whole thing. (Afterward, "you didn't write, you didn't call," she jokingly scolded him.)

Click through for the clip if you're willing to let a weird new image invade your sci-fi fantasy life.

Q: Another Strike? A: Yeah, Maybe.

Just so you know: right when we were getting over the Writers Strike, not one but two unions are threatening to bring the film and TV world to a standstill. This time, it's the actors unions -- the Screen Actors Guild or SAG, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or AFTRA, that are causing headaches for the AMPTP. (That's the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.) AFTRA has renegotiated their contract with producers successfully, where as SAG has not, and formally rejects AFTRA's deal (even though a number of individual SAG menbers support it). We'd love to complain about how "Hey what's the deal; Will Smith doesn't have enough personal chefs?" but the fact of the matter is most industry actors rarely get to work -- just like with writers -- so their unions have to be aggressive on their behalf when they can. Or, at least, that's what our Wobbly mom told us when we were but wee coal miners.

Anyway, everyone's got their fingers crossed that a strike can be avoided -- but don't get too cozy.

Posted Jun 26 2008, 08:37 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments

Filed under: writers strike, Will Smith, strike SAG, AMPTP, AFTRA, WGA, unions, the industry

Jason Bateman, Part One: He Called Charlize Theron A "Dirty Bitch" On "TRL" Yesterday

Funny, he don't seem to mind having her presumably filthy mitts all over him.

David Letterman and Will Smith Get Romantic

When an attractive female star visits Late Show With David Letterman, we know the drill: She and Dave will shower each other with compliments, hug and kiss, flirt like crazy, and pretend that he's not a cynical old dude and she's not just there to plug her latest movie. And with some, like Julia Roberts or Drew Barrymore, you can sense some actual affection between talk-show host and talk-show guest -- even though it's clear that the relationship will never continue beyond the chilly confines of the Ed Sullivan Theater.

But we have to admit, we weren't quite prepared for Will Smith's visit with Dave last night. Not only did it include copious smooching (on the cheek, anyway), but the joking banter about the two of them as a romantic couple went on far longer than either of them appeared to expect. Check out the video above to see why Will thinks Dave will "never go back." (And be thankful that they spared us all the potential Hancock jokes.)

Posted Jun 24 2008, 01:00 PM by Ben Kallen with | with no comments

Filed under: Drew Barrymore, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, talk shows, Hancock, Late Show With David Letterman

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Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.

Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.

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Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.

Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.

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