I'm working on it. But I intend to delay publishing until after I'm gone, so as to avoid the press junkets.
Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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. 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