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Will Smith, Posh, Renée Pay Tribute to Tom Cruise
Originally posted 05/05/2008 05:30PM
The second part of Tom Cruise's sit-down with
Oprah Winfrey aired Monday – and the actor looked back over his 25-year career with a little help from his friends and costars.
On the show, Winfrey gifted audience members with a box set of the actor's flicks, and showed off choice clips from his movies while the actor recounted his career. "I feel at home on that movie set," he told Winfrey. "A lot of times I show up before the crew. And I feel this is what I'm supposed to do."
And his friends concur.
Throughout the show, former costars like Will Smith,
Renée Zellweger and friends David and Victoria Beckham recorded sweet and funny tributes. Here are some of the top moments:
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Will Smith: I'm No Scientologist
Originally posted 03/18/2008 07:45AM
Just because you're friends with Tom Cruise, doesn't mean you're a Scientologist.
So says Will Smith, who's denying recent reports – including Radar magazine's April cover story – which claim he's been increasingly involved with the controversial religion.
"You don't have to be Jewish to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. You don't have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. And you don't have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise," the actor told the New York Daily News Tuesday.
"I am a Christian," the 39-year-old added. "I am a student of all religions. And I respect all people and all paths."
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Will Smith Wins Damages Over Hitler Quote
Originally posted 02/22/2008 11:40AM
Will Smith received an apology and damages Friday after a news agency falsely claimed that the I Am Legend star had said Adolf Hitler was "a good person."
World Entertainment News Network had misrepresented the actor's actual words, which were given during an interview with Scottish newspaper The Daily Record in December 2007, London's High Court was told.
In a statement, Smith's lawyer, Rachel Atkins, said the actor believes Hitler to have been a "vile and heinous man."
Atkins called the allegations made in the WENN article "false and without any foundation." She also told the court that the claims had caused Smith "acute embarrassment." WENN agreed to pay the actor's legal costs and an undisclosed sum for damages, which the star intends to donate to charity.
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VIDEO: Will Smith Beatboxes for Brazil
Originally posted 01/16/2008 03:00PM
He certainly knows how to make an entrance! Will Smith kicked it old-school when he arrived for the premiere of I Am Legend in Brazil Tuesday. The former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Grammy-winning hip-hop artist was sans turntables, but grabbed a mic for an impromptu beatboxing session and gave a shout-out to his host country.
– Kristin Boehm
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Will Smith Explains Hitler Quote
Originally posted 12/26/2007 08:25PM
After this week's firestorm over Will Smith's remarks on Hitler, which he explains were taken out of context, the Anti-Defamation League has welcomed and accepted his clarifying statement.
The I Am Legend star was quoted in the Daily Record, a Scottish newspaper as 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.'"
What got left out in the firestorm was that the quote was used as an example to back up the journalist's hypothesis that, "Remarkably, Will believes everyone is basically good," and it was not an assessment by Smith that Hitler was a good person, as many Web sites alleged.
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VIDEO: Will Smith Planning to Start a School
Originally posted 12/12/2007 01:05PM
Having immersed himself in educational theories while home-schooling his kids, Will Smith says he and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, plan to put that knowledge to greater use by teaming with like-minded parents and creating a full school.
The institution could launch next year, Smith, 39, said Wednesday on Live with Regis & Kelly. He didn't offer details, but said the idea came out of his family's experience in grouping home-schooled children together.
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Tom Cruise Joins Will Smith at Hollywood Ceremony
Originally posted 12/11/2007 03:55PM
Being immortalized in cement can be a nerve-racking experience, but Will Smith got a little help from his friends – in particular, Tom Cruise – at the Monday ceremony in his honor on Monday in the forecourt of Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Cruise arrived at the event, sans Katie and Suri, moments before Smith did, and was quickly embraced by Smith's family – his mother Caroline and his children Jaden and Willow. (His wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, was off directing a movie and could not attend.)
"Just tell me where you want me," Cruise told the clan. Willow, who is 7, replied excitedly, "Here!" – picking the seat between her and her grandmother.
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Will Smith's Secret to Success: Working Hard
Originally posted 12/03/2007 10:40AM
"While the other guy's sleeping, I'm working. While the other guy's eating, I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too, but I'm working really hard at it!"
• Will Smith tells 60 Minutes (tonight) the only thing he's good at is hard work.
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Will Smith: My Daughter Wants to Be Paris Hilton
Originally posted 12/02/2007 11:30AM
Will Smith has already made a star out of one of his children – son Jaden, 9, who costarred in 2006's The Pursuit of Happyness. Now, the acting bug has bitten again in the family.
Smith's daughter Willow, 7, makes her onscreen debut in his sci-fi thriller I Am Legend, due in theaters Dec. 14.
"She has a drive," Smith tells PEOPLE. "She has an energy and she just connects to human emotion. I think a big part was probably [seeing] Jaden after The Pursuit of Happyness. She saw what Jaden did, and she was like, 'I want that.'"
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He once chickened out of auditions for The Cosby Show and A Different World
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