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Hollywood Hills
The Hollywood Hills is an affluent and exclusive neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in the southeastern Santa Monica Mountains. It is bound by Laurel Canyon Boulevard to the west, Vermont Avenue to the east, Mulholland Drive (Griffith Park) to the north, and Sunset Boulevard to the south.
Coordinates: 34°07′N 118°20′W / 34.12°N 118.34°W / 34.12; -118.34
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Howe Caverns
Howe Caverns is a cave in Howes Cave, Schoharie County, New York.
Geologists believe that the formation of the cave, which lies 156 feet (48 m) below ground, began several million years ago. Composed mainly of limestone deposited hundreds of millions of years ago when the Atlantic Ocean stretched far inland, the cave contains a lake called the Lake of Venus, as well as many speleothems.
Howe Caverns takes its name from a farmer named Lester Howe who discovered it on May 22, 1842. Noticing that his cows frequently gathered near some bushes at the bottom of a hill on hot summer days, Howe decided to investigate. Behind the bushes he found a hole with a strong, cool breeze emanating from it. Howe proceeded to dig out and explore the cave with his friend and neighbor, Henry Wetsel, on whose land the cave entrance was located. Even to this day, the cave is at a constant 52 degree Fahrenheit, irrespective of the outside weather.
Howe opened the cave to eight-hour public tours in 1843, and, as business grew, a hotel was built over the entrance.
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Seattle
Seattle (pronounced /siːˈætɫ̩/ (
listen) see-AT-əl or /siːˈæɾɫ̩/) is the county seat of King County, in the U.S. state of Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country. The city is a major coastal seaport situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 114 miles (183 km) south of the Canada–United States border. In 2010, Seattle was the sixth busiest port in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trade with Asia.
The Seattle area had been inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent white settlers.Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to its current site and renamed "Seattle" in 1853, after Chief Seattle of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.
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Coordinates: 32°50′48″N 96°51′40″W / 32.846666666667°N 96.861°W / 32.846666666667; -96.861 (Southwest Airlines Headquarters)
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV), operating as Southwest Airlines, is the largest low-cost carrier in the U.S. headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The airline was established in 1967 adopting its current name in 1971, and as of June 5, 2011 (2011 -06-05)[update] is the largest airline in the United States based upon domestic passengers carried.
Although it operated Boeing 727 aircraft for a short time during the 1970s and 1980s, between that time and 2012 the airline operated only Boeing 737 aircraft, and as of September 30, 2011 (2011 -09-30)[update] was the largest operator of the 737 worldwide with over 550 of these aircraft in service, each operating an average of six flights per day.
In May 2011 the airline acquired Orlando-based AirTran Airways, with full integration of the carriers taking place over several years, and on March 1, 2012, the company was issued a single operating certificate meaning that from a technical standpoint, Southwest and AirTran became one airline. As a result, following the merger, Southwest also began operating the Boeing 717.
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Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, opening in 1973 after a long gestation that had begun with his competition-winning design in 1957.
Utzon received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2003. The Pritzker Prize citation stated:
The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.[citation needed]
The Sydney Opera House is on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and inland by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Contrary to its name, the building houses multiple performance venues. The Sydney Opera House is among the busiest performing arts centres in the world, hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people. It provides a venue for many performing-arts companies, including the four key resident companies Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and presents a wide range of productions on its own account. It is also one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, with more than seven million people visiting the site each year, 300,000 of whom take a guided tour.
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Toronto
Toronto (/təˈrɒntoʊ/, colloquially /ˈtrɒnoʊ/) is the largest city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The settlement was later established as the Town of York and proclaimed as the new capital of Upper Canada by its lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe. In 1834, York was incorporated as a city and renamed to its present name. The city was ransacked in the Battle of York during the War of 1812 and damaged in two great fires in 1849 and in 1904. Since its incorporation, Toronto has repeatedly expanded its borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities, most recently in 1998.
With over 2.6 million residents, it is the fifth most populous city in North America. Its metropolitan area has over 5.5 million residents. Toronto is at the heart of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and is part of a densely populated region in Southern Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe, which has a population of nearly 9 million people as of 2011. The census metropolitan area (CMA) had a population of 5,583,064, and the Greater Toronto Area had a population of 6,054,191 in the 2011 Census. Its cosmopolitan and international population reflects its role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. Toronto is one of the world's most diverse cities by percentage of non-native-born residents, with about 49% of the population born outside Canada. Toronto is also consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Mercer Quality of Living Survey.
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Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer, jurist, and political commentator. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School where in 1967, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor of law in its history. He has held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there since 1993.
Dershowitz is known for his involvement in several high-profile legal cases and as a commentator on the Arab–Israeli conflict. As a criminal appellate lawyer, he has won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases he has handled, and has represented a series of celebrity clients, including Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, and Jim Bakker. His most notable cases include his role in 1984 in overturning the conviction of Claus von Bülow for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny, and as the appellate adviser for the defense in the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995.
A political liberal, he is the author of a number of books about politics and law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (1996); the best-selling The Case for Israel (2003); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (2004) and The Case for Peace (2005).
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Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor of stage and screen. He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His breakout performance was as the Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Rickman is known for his film performances as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, Éamon de Valera in Michael Collins, and Metatron in Dogma.
Rickman has also had a number of other notable film roles such as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Jamie in Truly, Madly, Deeply, P.L. O'Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure and Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. More recently, he played Judge Turpin in the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Rickman was born in South Hammersmith, London, to a working class family, the son of Margaret Doreen Rose (née Bartlett), a housewife, and Bernard Rickman, a factory worker. Rickman's mother was from Wales and a Methodist, and his father was of Irish Catholic background. He has one elder brother, David (b. 1944), a graphic designer, a younger brother, Michael (b. 1947), a tennis coach, and a younger sister, Sheila (b. 1949). Rickman attended Derwentwater Primary School, in Acton, a school that followed the Montessori method of education.
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Batman
Batman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics. Originally referred to as "The Bat-Man" and still referred to at times as "The Batman", he is additionally known as "The Caped Crusader", "The Dark Knight", and "The World's Greatest Detective," among other titles.
In the original version of the story and the vast majority of retellings, Batman's secret identity is Bruce Wayne, an American millionaire (later billionaire) playboy, industrialist, and philanthropist. Having witnessed the murder of his parents as a child, he swore revenge on criminals, an oath tempered with the greater ideal of justice. Wayne trains himself both physically and intellectually and dons a bat-themed costume in order to fight crime. Batman operates in the fictional American Gotham City, assisted by various supporting characters including his crime-fighting partner, Robin, his butler Alfred Pennyworth, the police commissioner Jim Gordon, and occasionally the heroine Batgirl. He fights an assortment of villains such as the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, Two-Face, Poison Ivy and Catwoman. Unlike most superheroes, he does not possess any superpowers; he makes use of intellect, detective skills, science and technology, wealth, physical prowess, martial arts skills, an indomitable will, fear, and intimidation in his continuous war on crime.
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Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972), better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), and Dogma (1999). Affleck won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997), which he co-wrote with Matt Damon, and has appeared in lead roles in such popular hits as Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Changing Lanes (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), Daredevil (2003), Hollywoodland (2007) and State of Play (2009).
Affleck is a critically acclaimed filmmaker. He directed Gone Baby Gone (2007) and The Town (2010), playing the lead in the latter. He has worked with his younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, on several projects, including Good Will Hunting and Gone Baby Gone.
Affleck has been married to Jennifer Garner since June 2005. They have two daughters, Violet and Seraphina, and a son, Samuel. He dated the actress Gwyneth Paltrow in 1998. His relationship with actress/singer Jennifer Lopez attracted worldwide media attention, in which Affleck and Lopez were dubbed "Bennifer". The two broke up in 2004.
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Bob Weinstein
Robert "Bob" Weinstein (born October 18, 1954) is an American film and theatre producer, the founder and head of Dimension Films, former co-chairman of Miramax Films, and current head, with his brother Harvey Weinstein, of The Weinstein Company.
Weinstein and his brother, Harvey, are of Jewish heritage.
After graduating from college, Bob, along with his brother Harvey Weinstein, independently produced rock concerts as Harvey & Corky Productions in Buffalo through most of the 1970s. Both Weinstein brothers had grown up with a passion for movies and they nurtured a desire to enter the film industry. In the late 1970s, using profits from their concert promotion business, the brothers created a small independent film distribution company called Miramax, named after their parents - Miriam and Max. The company's first releases were primarily music-oriented concert films such as Paul McCartney's Rockshow. In the early 1980s Miramax acquired the rights to two British films of benefit shows filmed for human rights organization Amnesty International. Working closely with Martin Lewis the producer of the original films, the Weinstein brothers edited the two films into one movie tailored for the American market. The resulting film was released as The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in May 1982 and it became Miramax's first hit. The movie raised considerable sums for Amnesty International and was credited by Amnesty with having helped to raise its profile in the US.
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Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is a German-born American actor, producer, and musician. His career began in television in the 1980s and has continued both in television and film since, including comedic, dramatic, and action roles. He is well known for the role of John McClane in the Die Hard series, which were mostly critical and uniformly financial successes. He has also appeared in over sixty films, including box office successes like Pulp Fiction (1994), 12 Monkeys (1995), The Fifth Element (1997), Armageddon (1998), The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Sin City (2005), Over the Hedge (2006) and Red (2010).
Motion pictures featuring Willis have grossed US$2.64 billion to 3.05 billion at North American box offices, making him the ninth highest-grossing actor in a leading role and twelfth highest including supporting roles. He is a two-time Emmy Award–winning, Golden Globe Award–winning and four-time Saturn Award–nominated actor. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000, following thirteen years of marriage. He is currently married to model Emma Heming, with whom he has one daughter.
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Chris Rock
Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director.
After working as a standup comic and appearing in small film roles, Rock came to wider prominence as as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s. He went on to more prominent film roles, and a series of acclaimed comedy specials for HBO.
He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central. He was also voted in the UK as the 9th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007, and again in the updated 2010 list as the 8th greatest stand-up comic.
Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina. Shortly after his birth, his parents moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. A few years later, they relocated and settled in the working-class area of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. His mother, Rosalie (née Tingman), was a teacher and social worker for the mentally handicapped; his father, Julius Rock, was a former truck driver and newspaper deliveryman. Julius died in 1988 after ulcer surgery. His younger brothers Tony, Kenny and Jordan are also in the entertainment business. His older half-brother, Charles, died in 2006 after a long struggle with alcoholism. Rock has said that he was influenced by the performing style of his paternal grandfather, Allen Rock, a preacher.
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Craig Brewer
Craig Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American film director and screenwriter. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp".
Hustle & Flow was financed by filmmaker John Singleton, also produced by Stephanie Allain, Preston Holmes and executive produced by Dwight Williams.
Brewer's subsequent project, Black Snake Moan, began filming in September 2005 and stars Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake. Black Snake Moan was partially filmed in Memphis, Tennessee. Production completed on Black Snake Moan in October 2005 and it was released on March 2, 2007. His first big-budget film, a remake of the 1984 film, Footloose was released on October 14, 2011 after Brewer and the two stars of the film, Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough, completed a national press tour promoting the film. The film received higher critical praise than its predecessor.
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David Mandel
David Mandel (born 1970) is an executive producer and director of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and one of the producers of the teen-comedy Eurotrip. He was a writer for Seinfeld during its seventh, eighth, and ninth seasons. He is also one of the creators of Clerks: The Animated Series, and he was a writer for Saturday Night Live. He had a brief stint as a host of Dave and Steve's Video Game Explosion, a comedy video game review show that aired late nights on TBS as part of the Burly Bear Network. The show only lasted a few episodes before the entire block was canceled.
Mandel wrote the Seinfeld episode The Bizarro Jerry, and on the commentary track to the DVD, has stated that this was his favorite Seinfeld of the episodes he wrote.
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Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Irene Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress. Banks made her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy. She is best known for her roles in the films Definitely, Maybe, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, W., Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, The Uninvited, and The Hunger Games.
On television, Banks had a recurring role of Avery Jessup on the sitcom 30 Rock, which gained her a nomination for an Emmy Award. Previously, Banks had starred in the recurring role of Dr. Kim Briggs on Scrubs from 2006 to 2009.
Banks was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the eldest of four children of Ann (née Wallace) and Mark P. Mitchell. Her father was a factory worker for General Electric and her mother worked in a bank.
As a girl, she loved playing baseball and riding horses. She played little league until she broke her leg sliding into third at a game. Looking for something else, she tried the school play. After that, acting became her passion.[citation needed] . She graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1992 and attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. Banks graduated magna cum laude in 1996. In 1998, she completed schooling at the American Conservatory Theater and earned an MFA.
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Fred Phelps
Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. (born November 13, 1929) is an American pastor heading the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an independent Baptist church based in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps is a disbarred lawyer, founder of the Phelps Chartered law firm, and a former civil rights activist.
Phelps's followers frequently picket various events, such as military funerals, gay pride gatherings, high-profile political gatherings, university commencement ceremonies, performances of The Laramie Project, mainstream Christian gatherings and concerts with which he had no affiliation, arguing it is their sacred duty to warn others of God's anger.
In response to Phelps' protests at military funerals, President George W. Bush signed the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act into law in May 2006, and, in April 2007, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius signed into law a bill establishing a 150-foot no-picketing buffer zone around funerals.
He is known for the slogans that he and his ministry use against people he deems sinful; his church is built around a core of anti-homosexual theology, with many of their activities stemming from the slogan "God hates fags", which is also the name of the group's main website.Gay rights supporters have denounced him as a producer of anti-gay propaganda and violence-inspiring hate speech. The church is considered a hate group and monitored by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Garth Ennis
Garth Ennis (born 16 January 1970) is a Northern Irish comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series Preacher with artist Steve Dillon and his successful nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise. He has collaborated with artists such as Steve Dillon and Glenn Fabry on Preacher, John McCrea on Hitman, and Carlos Ezquerra on both Preacher and Hitman.
Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls. Appearing in the short-lived but critically acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar. Ennis was later critical of his writing debut, which he describes as "the kind of thing that was doing well at the time. (...) With hindsight, what Troubled Souls really represented was naked ambition. It was a direct attempt to get published. And that was the road that seemed most likely to lead me to success".
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George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, actor and writer/author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on politics, the English language, psychology, religion, and various taboo subjects. Carlin and his "Seven Dirty Words" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which a narrow 5–4 decision by the justices affirmed the government's power to regulate indecent material on the public airwaves.
The first of his fourteen stand-up comedy specials for HBO was filmed in 1977. In 1988, the 1990s and 2000s, Carlin's routines focused on socio-cultural criticism of modern American society. He often commented on contemporary political issues in the United States and satirized the excesses of American culture. His final HBO special, It's Bad for Ya, was filmed less than four months before his death.
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Green Arrow
Green Arrow is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Mort Weisinger and George Papp, he first appeared in More Fun Comics #73 in November 1941. His secret identity is Oliver Queen, billionaire and former mayor of fictional Star City. Dressed like Robin Hood, Green Arrow is an archer who invents trick arrows with various special functions, such as glue arrows, net, explosive, time bomb, grappling, fire extinguishing, flash and tear gas arrows, as well as cryonic arrows, and even a kryptonite arrow. Originally developed as an archery-themed analogue of the very popular Batman character, writers at DC have developed Green Arrow into a voice of left-wing and progressive politics very much distinct in character from Batman, with his own supporting cast.
Throughout his first twenty-five years, Green Arrow was not a significant hero. In the late 1960s, however, writer Denny O'Neil chose to have him lose his fortune, giving him the then-unique role of streetwise crusader for the working class and the disadvantaged. In 1970, he was paired with the more law-and-order-oriented hero Green Lantern in a groundbreaking, socially conscious comic book series. Since then, he has been popular among comic book fans and most writers have taken an urban, gritty approach to the character. The character was killed off in the 1990s and replaced by a new character, Oliver's son Connor Hawke, the second Green Arrow; however, Hawke proved a less popular character, and the original Oliver Queen character was resurrected in the 2001 "Quiver" storyline. In the 2000s, the character has been featured in bigger storylines focusing on Green Arrow and the character Black Canary, such as the DC event The Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding and the high-profile Justice League: Cry for Justice storyline, the climax of which sees Green Arrow becoming a morally ambiguous anti-hero.[citation needed]
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Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein (born March 19, 1952) is an American film producer and movie studio chairman. He is best known as co-founder of Miramax Films. He and his brother Bob have been co-chairmen of The Weinstein Company, their film production company, since 2005. He won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for producing a variety of winning plays and musicals including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County.
Born in Flushing, New York, Weinstein and his younger brother, Bob, grew up in a Jewish family in New York City, residing in a housing co-op named Electchester. He graduated from John Bowne High School, and then the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Weinstein, along with his brother Bob Weinstein, and Corky Burger independently produced rock concerts as Harvey & Corky Productions in Buffalo through most of the 1970s. Both Weinstein brothers had grown up with a passion for movies and they nurtured a desire to enter the film industry. In the late 1970s, using profits from their concert promotion business, the brothers created a small independent film distribution company called Miramax, named after their parents - Miriam and Max. The company's first releases were primarily music-oriented concert films such as Paul McCartney's Rockshow. In the early 1980s Miramax acquired the rights to two British films of benefit shows filmed for human rights organization Amnesty International. Working closely with Martin Lewis, the producer of the original films, the Weinstein brothers edited the two films into one movie tailored for the American market. The resulting film was released as The Secret Policeman's Other Ball in May 1982 and it became Miramax's first hit. The movie raised considerable sums for Amnesty International and was credited by Amnesty with having helped to raise its profile in the US.
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Jack Kirby
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.
Growing up poor in New York City, Kurtzberg entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s. He drew various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s, Kirby, generally teamed with Simon, created numerous characters for that company and for the company that would become DC Comics.
After serving in World War II, Kirby returned to comics and worked in a variety of genres. He contributed to a number of publishers, including DC, Harvey Comics, Hillman Periodicals and Crestwood Publications, where he and Simon created the genre of romance comics. He and Simon also launched their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. Kirby ultimately found himself at Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, later to be known as Marvel Comics. There, in the 1960s, he and writer-editor Stan Lee co-created many of Marvel's major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Hulk. Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.
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Jason Mewes
Jason Edward Mewes (born June 12, 1974) is an American television and film actor, and internet radio show host best known for playing Jay, the vocal half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, in longtime friend Kevin Smith's films.
Jason Mewes grew up in a working-class neighborhood in New Jersey. He never knew his father, and his mother was an ex-con and a drug addict. Relates Mewes: "She used to check into hotels and take TVs and sell them...I guess it really ain't funny, but it's weird because it was so fucked up...She used to steal mail. I used to drive around with her and she'd pull up and make me reach into mailboxes. It really wasn't pleasant." Although this exposure to drugs at first served to make him averse to them, he eventually began using them after graduating from high school.
His best friend was future filmmaker Kevin Smith, who describes his friend thus: "He's the kind of dude you know for five minutes and he whips his cock out. I was like, Somebody should put this dude in a movie. I just wanted to see if anybody outside our group of friends finds him as funny as I do."
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Jeffrey Overstreet
Jeffrey Overstreet is a novelist and film reviewer who currently resides in Shoreline, Washington.
Jeffrey Overstreet currently works as an editor at Seattle Pacific University. He also frequently reviews movies and his reviews are published in publications such as Paste, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Christianity Today, Risen, and Seattle Pacific University's Response magazine. His work has also been highlighted in TIME Magazine. In 2007, Overstreet received the Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival in recognition of his writing on cinema.
Through A Screen Darkly was published by Regal Books in February 2007, and earned a "Starred Review" from Publisher's Weekly. In the book, Overstreet shows how films from many different worldviews can offer pieces of a larger truth
Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has said of the book that it is "Inspirational.... Sometimes all of us forget that love for movies, that internal spark inside us that movies lit, and your book is going to remind many of us about it."
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Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Affleck (née Garner; born April 17, 1972), better known as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress and film producer. Garner gained recognition on television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney Bristow in the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five seasons from 2001 to 2006. While working on Alias, she gained minor roles in hit movies such as Pearl Harbor (2001) and Catch Me if You Can (2002). Since then, Garner has appeared in supporting as well as lead roles on the big screen in projects including Daredevil (2003), 13 Going on 30 (2004), Elektra (2005), a spin-off of Daredevil, and Juno (2007). She is married to actor and director Ben Affleck, with whom she has two daughters and a son.
Her mother, Patricia Ann (née English), was an English teacher from Oklahoma, and her father, William "Bill" John Garner, worked as a chemical engineer at Union Carbide. When she was four years old, her father's job with Union Carbide relocated her family to Princeton, West Virginia, and then later to Charleston, West Virginia, where Garner resided until her college years. She has credited her older sister, Melissa Lynn Garner Wylie, who resides in Boston, Massachusetts, as a source of inspiration to her. Her younger sister is Susannah Kay Garner Carpenter.
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Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969) is an American actress, businesswoman, dancer and recording artist. Often referred to as J.Lo, she is reportedly the highest earning actress of Latin descent. Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, she enrolled in singing and dancing classes as a child and grew up in a musically influenced household. She started her career as a fly girl on the television comedy program In Living Color and a back-up dancer for Janet Jackson. Lopez gained recognition in the action-thriller Money Train (1995). Her first leading role was in the biographical film Selena (1997), which was her breakthrough role, earning her an ALMA Award for Outstanding Actress and Golden Globe nomination. She earned her second ALMA Award for her performance in Out of Sight (1998), which made her the highest-paid Latin actress. She has since appeared in various films including The Cell (2000), The Wedding Planner (2001), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Shall We Dance? (2004), Monster-in-Law (2005), The Back-up Plan (2010) and What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012).
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Joe Quesada
Joseph "Joe" Quesada (born January 12, 1962) is an American comic book editor, writer and artist. He became known in the 1990s for his work on various Valiant Comics books, such as Ninjak and Solar, Man of the Atom. He later worked on numerous books for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, such as Batman: Sword of Azrael and X-Factor, before forming his own company, Event Comics, where he published his creator-owned character, Ash.
In 1998 he became an editor of Marvel Comics' Marvel Knights line, before becoming editor-in-chief of the company in 2000. He was named Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment in 2010 and left his editor-in-chief role in January 2011, being replaced by Axel Alonso.
Quesada was born in New York City to Cuban-born parents, and grew up in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens. The first comic book he became an ardent fan of was The Amazing Spider-Man, which he began reading around issue #98, the last issue of a historic anti-drug storyline, which garnered his father's approval. As the character resonated with him (in part because both grew up in Queens), Spider-Man remains a character he particularly enjoys drawing.
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Joey Lauren Adams
Joey Lauren Adams (born January 9, 1968) is an American actress who has appeared in more than thirty films. She is known for her distinctive, raspy voice and for her roles in View Askewniverse films, particularly Mallrats and Chasing Amy, with the latter giving her a Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination.
She began her film career in 1977 with a small part in Exorcist II: The Heretic. In 1991, she appeared in the 100th episode of Married... with Children called Top of the Heap and subsequently starred in its short lived spinoff. In 1993, Adams landed her first major film role as Simone in Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused. The same year, she appeared in the Saturday Night Live spinoff film Coneheads as one of Connie Conehead's friends.
Two years later, Adams appeared in Mallrats, written and directed by Kevin Smith. The two started dating during the film's post-production, and their relationship provided the inspiration for Smith's next movie.
Meanwhile, in 1996, while Smith was finalizing the script for Chasing Amy, she was cast for a role in the slapstick comedy Bio-Dome, which was directed by Jason Bloom. Adams played the role of Monique, girlfriend to Bud Macintosh (Pauly Shore).
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John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his role as Dan Conner on the television series Roseanne (1988–1997) for which he won a Best Actor Golden Globe Award in 1993.
Goodman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother, Virginia Roos (née Loosmore), was a store clerk and waitress who worked at Jack and Phil's Bar-B-Que, and his father, Leslie F. Goodman, was a postal worker who died of a heart attack in 1954. He has a sister, Elisabeth Horvath, and a brother, Leslie.
Goodman went to Affton High School, where he played football and dabbled in theater. He then won a football scholarship to Southwest Missouri State University, now called Missouri State University. He pledged the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, but was not formally initiated until several years later. Later he discovered Southwest Missouri's drama program. He studied there with actors Kathleen Turner and Tess Harper. After a college injury ended his football career, he decided to become a professional actor, leaving Missouri for New York in 1975.
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Jon Peters
Jon Peters (born John H. Peters; June 2, 1945) is an American movie producer.
Peters was born in Van Nuys, California, the son of Helen (née Pagano), a receptionist, and Jack Peters, a cook who owned a Hollywood diner. He is of Cherokee (father) and Italian (mother) descent. His mother's family owned a renowned Rodeo Drive salon in Beverly Hills. Jack Peters suffered a heart attack and died when his son was ten, and Helen's marriage to a construction worker devastated the family.
Peters went into the family hair styling business and was successful on Rodeo Drive in Hollywood where he made many industry connections. Peters first gained national prominence when he began dating superstar singer and actress Barbra Streisand after designing the short wig Barbra wore for the 1974 comedy For Pete's Sake. He then produced Streisand's 1974 Butterfly album, from which two songs, "There Won't Be Trumpets/A Quiet Thing" and "God Bless the Child", were later released on her Just For the Record box set - on the liner notes she stated that 'no one at the record company shared my enthusiasm. They thought the songs didn't belong on a contemporary album like Butterfly'. In 1976 he was given a controversial producing credit on Streisand's remake of A Star Is Born. He worked with Peter Guber for the next ten years. Their hits included The Color Purple, Flashdance, Batman, and Rain Man. He headed Sony Pictures with Guber for two years until Guber fired him. The pair were the subject of the book Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood by Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters.
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Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob. Although primarily known for the View Askew film series, Smith also wrote, directed and produced films such as the buddy cop action comedy Cop Out, as well as the horror film Red State. His first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon in what is known by fans as the "View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.
Smith is also the owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic book and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey. He co-hosts several weekly podcasts that are recorded at various locations around the world and released on SModcast Internet Radio. Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith.
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Linda Fiorentino
Linda Fiorentino (born March 9, 1960) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Dogma, Vision Quest, Men in Black, After Hours and The Last Seduction. For her performance in The Last Seduction she won Best Actress awards from both the New York Film Critics Circle and the London Film Critics Circle. She was also nominated for a Best Actress Bafta Film Award.
Fiorentino was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fiorentino is of Italian American Catholic background. She is a graduate of Rosemont College in suburban Philadelphia. She has studied photography, off and on, since 1987 at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She was married to director John Byrum for a time, but they divorced in 1993. She is still very close to Byrum's children. She splits her time between Westport, Connecticut, and New York City.
Fiorentino got her first professional role in 1985 when she starred in Vision Quest. It was not until 1994 that she became widely recognized, receiving accolades for her performance in a modern film noir, The Last Seduction, as the murderous femme fatale, Bridget. Because The Last Seduction was first aired on HBO television, Fiorentino was ineligible for an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, despite glowing reviews.
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Liv Tyler
Liv Rundgren Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Silent Fall. She then appeared in supporting roles in Empire Records (1995), Heavy (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996). Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Stealing Beauty (1996). She followed this by starring in supporting roles including Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Cookie's Fortune (1999).
Tyler achieved international recognition as a result of her portrayal of Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. She has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy Jersey Girl, the indie film Lonesome Jim (2005), the drama Reign Over Me (2007) and big-budget studio films such as Armageddon (1998), The Strangers (2008) and The Incredible Hulk (2008).
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Mark Millar
Mark Millar (born 24 December 1969) is a Scottish comic book writer, known for his work on books such as The Authority, The Ultimates, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, Wanted, and Kick-Ass, the latter two of which have been adapted into feature films. In August 2007, he won the Stan Lee award at Wizardworld in Chicago.
Millar was born in Coatbridge. He has a brother, Bobby, who works at a special needs school.
Millar was inspired to become a comic writer after meeting Alan Moore at a signing session at AKA Books and Comics when he was a teenager in the late 1980s. However it was not until experiencing financial problems after his parents died that he decided to drop out of university and take up writing professionally.
His first job as a comic book writer came when he was still in high school, writing Trident's Saviour with Daniel Vallely providing art. Saviour combined elements of religion, satire and superhero action Millar later became known for.
During the 1990s, Millar then worked on titles such as 2000 AD, Sonic the Comic and Crisis. In 1993, Millar, Grant Morrison and John Smith created a controversial eight-week run on 2000 AD called The Summer Offensive. It was during this run that Millar and Morrison wrote their first major story together, the highly controversial strip Big Dave.
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Matt Damon
Matthew Paige "Matt" Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, screenwriter, and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting (1997) from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck. The pair won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for their work. Damon alone received multiple Best Actor nominations, including an Academy Award for his lead performance in the film.
Damon has since starred in commercially successful films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), the Ocean's trilogy, and the Bourne series, while also gaining critical acclaim for his performances in dramas such as Syriana (2005), The Good Shepherd (2006), and The Departed (2006). He garnered a Golden Globe nomination for portraying the title character in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Invictus (2009). He is one of the top 40 highest grossing actors of all time. In 2007, Damon received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. Damon has been actively involved in charitable work, including the ONE Campaign, H2O Africa Foundation, and Water.org.
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Maxie Zeus
Maximilian "Maxie" Zeus is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. He is a criminal mastermind who believes that he is the god Zeus from Greek mythology. He is an occasional enemy of Batman. He first appeared in Detective Comics #483 (April–May 1979).
Maxie, originally a slightly built, almost mild man, is originally a history teacher and a married man. Through unrevealed circumstances he loses his wife and his sanity. He becomes a crime lord, and uses his cunning and intelligence to rise to power amidst the chaos in Gotham City's underworld caused by the city's numerous insane criminals. He fights Batman on several occasions before being committed to Arkham Asylum.
Because Maxie seems less dangerous than the Joker, Two-Face, and other notorious Arkham inmates, Arkham's administrators do not commit him in the maximum security wing despite repeated recommendations from Batman to do so (per Batman and the Outsiders #14). Batman's concern is proven warranted when Maxie escapes to form a team of Greek Mythology-based superhuman agents called the New Olympians. He attempts to kidnap Olympic athlete Lacinia Nitocris and force her to marry him and become a mother figure for his daughter Medea. This plot is foiled by Batman and the Outsiders, who beat the Olympians in a series of Olympic-style games.
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Mel Gibson
Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born 3 January 1956) is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born in Peekskill, New York, moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia when he was 12 years old, and later studied acting at the Australian National Institute of Dramatic Art.
After appearing in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a film portraying the last hours in the life of Jesus.
Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York State, the sixth of 11 children, and the second son of Hutton Gibson and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly, died 1990). His paternal grandmother was the Australian opera contralto Eva Mylott (1875–1920). One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. Gibson's first name comes from Saint Mel, fifth-century Irish saint, and founder of Gibson's mother's native diocese, Ardagh, while his second name, Colm-Cille, is also shared by an Irish saint and is the name of the parish in County Longford where Gibson's mother was born and raised. Because of his mother, Gibson holds dual Irish and American citizenship.
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Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. After appearing on several television shows and films in the late '80s, her breakthrough role came in 1993 as Det. Sgt. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street for the show's first five seasons from 1993 – 1997. She was also previously been a regular on the television shows All My Children and The Young Riders. Her breakthrough film role was in the 2003 film, 21 Grams as Marianne Jordan.
Following several films, Leo received critical acclaim and national attention in the 2008 film, Frozen River earning several nominations and awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Leo earned several awards for her role as Alice Ward in the critically acclaimed 2010 film, The Fighter. For this role Leo won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Leo currently appears on the HBO television series Treme as Antoinette "Toni" Bernette.
Leo was born in Manhattan, New York City. She is the daughter of Peggy (née Chessington), a California-born teacher, and Arnold Leo, an editor at Grove Press, fisherman, and spokesman for the East Hampton Baymen's Association. Leo was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and spent summers at her father's house in Springs, a section of East Hampton, N.Y. She is a former resident of Putney, Vermont and now lives in Stone Ridge, New York. She has a son with actor and former boyfriend John Heard named John Matthew Heard (born 1987) and years later adopted Adam (born 1984).[citation needed]
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Michael Parks
Michael Parks (born Harry Samuel Parks; April 24, 1940) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in almost fifty films and has made frequent TV appearances, but is probably best known for his work in recent years with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith as well as the 1969 television series Then Came Bronson.
Parks was born Harry Samuel Parks in Corona, California to a truck driver father. He drifted from job to job during his teenage years. He was married at the age of 15.
Parks first gained recognition in the role of Adam in John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) featuring his concealed frontal nudity. Swedish actress Ulla Bergryd portrayed his wife, Eve. She dropped from sight shortly thereafter and was not seen in the movies again, except in Apollo Goes on Holiday two years later. Parks was also the star of the television series Then Came Bronson from 1969 to 1970. He sang the theme song for the show, "Long Lonesome Highway," which became a #20 Billboard Hot 100 and #41 Hot Country Songs hit. Albums he recorded under MGM Records (the label of the studio which produced the series) include Closing The Gap (1969), Long Lonesome Highway (1970), and Blue. He also had various 45 rpm records of songs included on these albums. Other early roles included an appearance in two NBC series, the legal drama Sam Benedict in the role of Larry Wilcox in the 1962 episode entitled "Too Many Strangers" and the medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in the role of Mark Reynolds in the 1963 segment "Pressure Breakdown." He also appeared in The China Lake Murders and Stranger by Night, having portrayed a police officer in both.
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Mitch Albom
Mitchell "Mitch" David Albom (born May 23, 1958) is an American best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Having achieved national recognition for his sports writing in the earlier part of his career, he is perhaps best known for the inspirational stories and themes that weave through his books, plays and films. He is also well known for his philanthropic work in Detroit, Michigan where he founded four charities.
Albom was born in Trenton, New Jersey and briefly lived in Buffalo, New York before moving back to Haddon Township, New Jersey as a child, where he attended a synagogue led by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis, the subject of his book, Have a Little Faith. He resided in Oaklyn, New Jersey.
After attending high schools in Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, including Akiba Hebrew Academy in Lower Merion, Albom went on to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts to earn a bachelor’s degree in sociology. Pursuing his dream to become a musician, he worked after graduation for several years in nightclubs in the US and Europe. He discovered an aptitude for writing and eventually returned to graduate school, earning a Master's degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, followed by an MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
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Paul Dini
Paul Dini (born August 7, 1957) is an American writer and producer who works in the television and comic book industries. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics animated series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Duck Dodgers. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Transformers, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. After leaving Warner Bros. in early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost. He has also written a number of comic books for DC Comics, including Harley Quinn and Superman: Peace on Earth. Fall 2010 also saw the debut of Tower Prep, a new live action/drama series Dini created for Cartoon Network. It has been announced that after two decades of doing DC-related animated projects, Paul Dini will be going over to Marvel to serve as a writer and producer for Ultimate Spider-Man and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
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Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (pronunciation: /ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ/; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. He has received many industry awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA and the Palme d'Or and had been nominated for an Emmy and Grammy.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tarantino was an avid film fan. His career began in the late 1980's, when he wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday. Its screenplay would form the basis for True Romance. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003, 2004), Death Proof (2007), and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
His movies are generally characterized by stylistic influences from grindhouse, kung fu, and spaghetti western films. Tarantino also frequently collaborates with his friend and fellow filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.
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Raquel Castro
Raquel Castro (born November 17, 1994) is an American teen actress and singer. She is best known for her role in the 2004 film Jersey Girl as Gertie Trinké, the daughter of Ollie Trinké (Ben Affleck) and Gertrude Steiney (Jennifer Lopez), the role for which Castro won the Young Artist Award for the Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actress Age Ten or Younger. She was a contestant in the American version of The Voice.
Castro, the fourth of five children, was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican father, Albee Castro, and Kathleen, an American mother of Italian American and Jewish descent. She has two older sisters, an older brother and a younger brother and currently lives in Long Island, New York. Raquel was named after her mother's favorite actress, Raquel Welch.
Castro made her acting debut in an episode of the television series, Third Watch. She was subsequently cast as the daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's characters in the 2004 film Jersey Girl, directed by Kevin Smith. She appeared in a 2005 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit entitled "Alien" and in the independent film, Little Fugitive. In 2006, she was cast as Nicole in the music video for the Ludacris song "Runaway Love" with Mary J. Blige, where she plays an abused self-conscious girl who runs away. She later was featured in the 2007 independent film, Tracks of Color. She has a role in The Ministers (2009), starring John Leguizamo. Raquel also spent quite a few years at a dance studio with her younger brother.
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Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer. Witherspoon landed her first feature role as the female lead in the film The Man in the Moon in 1991; later that year she made her television acting debut, in the cable movie Wildflower. In 1996, Witherspoon appeared in Freeway and followed that appearance with roles in three major 1998 films: Overnight Delivery, Pleasantville and Twilight. The following year, Witherspoon appeared in the critically acclaimed Election, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date. 2003 saw her return as lead actress and executive producer of Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde. In 2005, Witherspoon received worldwide attention and praise for her portrayal of June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, which earned her an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
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Richard Roeper
Richard E. Roeper (born October 17, 1959) is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000–2008, as the late Gene Siskel's replacement.
Roeper was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in south suburban Dolton, Illinois. He attended Thornridge High School and graduated from Illinois State University in 1982. He has described himself as a Catholic, although "not always first in line for Sunday Mass".[citation needed]
Roeper began working as a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1987. The topics of his columns range from politics to media to entertainment. In more recent years, he has been widely considered one of the finest newspaper writers in Chicago, just a notch below the city's golden-inked "Mount Rushmore" of John Kass (Tribune), Dave Hoekstra (Sun-Times), Jay Mariotti (Sun-Times) and Roger Ebert (Sun-Times).
He has also written seven books, on topics from movies to urban legends to conspiracy theories to the Chicago White Sox. In 2009 Roeper appeared on Howard Stern's show and said he had written a book on gambling, entitled Bet the House, which was released in the first quarter of 2010.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (
/ˈiːbərt/; born June 18, 1942) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Ebert is known for his film review column (appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online) and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel. After Siskel's death in 1999, Ebert teamed with Richard Roeper for the television series Ebert & Roeper & the Movies, which began airing in 2000. Although his name remained in the title, Ebert did not appear on the show after mid-2006 after he suffered post-surgical complications related to thyroid cancer, leaving him unable to speak. Ebert ended his association with the show in July 2008, but in February 2009 he stated that he and Roeper would continue their work on a new show. Ebert's current show, Ebert Presents: At the Movies, premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by someone else in a brief segment called "Roger's Office".
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Rosario Dawson
Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress, singer, and writer. She has appeared in films such as Kids, Men in Black II, 25th Hour, Sin City, Clerks II, Rent, Death Proof, The Rundown, Eagle Eye, Alexander, Seven Pounds, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Unstoppable.
Dawson was born in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, is a writer and singer who is of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent. Isabel was seventeen years old when Rosario was born; she never married Rosario's biological father, Patrick C. Harris. When Isabel was eighteen, she married Greg Dawson, a construction worker, who "loved and raised Rosario as his own daughter" (Dawson has stated that "He's always been my dad"). Dawson has a brother, Clay, who is four years younger. Her parents divorced in 2006.
At the age of 21, Isabel moved the family into an abandoned building squat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she and her husband renovated an apartment and installed the plumbing and electrical wiring for the building, creating affordable housing where Rosario and Clay would grow up. Dawson has cited this part of her history when explaining how she learned that "If you wanted something better, you had to do it yourself."
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Salma Hayek
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsalma ˈxaʝek]; born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American film actress, director and producer. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.
Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of Diana Jiménez Medina, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek Dominguez, an oil company executive who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos. Hayek's father is of Lebanese ancestry, while her mother's ancestry is Spanish. Her first given name, Salma, is Arabic for "safe". Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Roman Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve. While there, she was diagnosed with dyslexia. She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana.
At the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. In 1994, Hayek starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema.[citation needed] For her performance, Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award.
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Scott Mosier
Scott A Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is an American-Canadian film producer, editor, podcaster and actor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he co-hosts the weekly podcast, Smodcast.
Mosier was born in Vancouver, Washington and moved around as a child between British Columbia and Washington. He has dual Canadian and US citizenship, as his father was born in Saskatchewan, Canada. As a teenager he resided in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Mosier met Smith at the Vancouver Film School in Canada. Their first assignment, Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary, was a student film documentary that fell apart in production. To salvage it, Smith and Mosier interviewed the crew about the demise of the very documentary that they had been attempting to produce. They also added a segment in which the two were shown in silhouette as they described their fictional thoughts.
Four months into the eight month program, Smith decided to drop out, but not before making a deal with Mosier: each would start writing a script of their own, and the one who finished last would help the other with his movie.
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Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen (pronounced /ˈroʊɡɪn/; born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter, and voice artist. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy during his teen years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. While still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a small part in Freaks and Geeks. Shortly after Rogen moved to Los Angeles for his role, Freaks and Geeks was canceled after one season due to poor ratings. He then got a part on the equally short-lived Undeclared, which also hired him as a staff writer.
After landing a job as a staff writer on the final season of Da Ali G Show, for which Rogen and the other writers received an Emmy nomination, he was guided by film producer Judd Apatow toward a film career. Rogen was cast in a major supporting role and credited as a co-producer in Apatow's directorial debut, The 40-Year-Old Virgin. After Rogen received critical praise for that performance, Universal Pictures agreed to cast him as the lead in Apatow's directorial feature films Knocked Up and Funny People. Rogen and his comedy partner Evan Goldberg co-wrote the films Superbad, Pineapple Express, and The Green Hornet. Rogen has done voice work for the films Horton Hears a Who!, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, and Paul. He married fellow screenwriter Lauren Miller in October 2011.
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Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born December 28, 1922) is an American comic book writer, editor, actor, producer, publisher, television personality, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics.
In collaboration with several artists, most notably Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Thor, and many other fictional characters, introducing complex, naturalistic characters and a thoroughly shared universe into superhero comic books. In addition, he headed the first major successful challenge to the industry's censorship organization, the Comics Code Authority, and forced it to reform its policies. Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large multimedia corporation.
He was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1995.
Stan Lee was born Stanley Martin Lieber in New York City on December 28, 1922, in the apartment of his Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and Jack Lieber, at the corner of West 98th Street and West End Avenue in Manhattan. His father, trained as a dress cutter, worked only sporadically after the Great Depression, and the family moved further uptown to Fort Washington Avenue, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. When Lee was nearly 9, his only sibling, brother Larry Lieber, was born. He said in 2006 that as a child he was influenced by books and movies, particularly those with Errol Flynn playing heroic roles. By the time Lee was in his teens, the family was living in a one-bedroom apartment at 1720 University Avenue in The Bronx. Lee described it as "a third-floor apartment facing out back", with him and his brother sharing a bedroom and his parents using a foldout couch.
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Stephen Root
Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor and former voice actor. He is best known for his comedic work on the TV sitcom NewsRadio, in the film Office Space and as the voices of Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland in the animated series King of the Hill. He has also won acclaim for his occasional dramatic roles.
Root was born in Sarasota, Florida, the son of Leona Estelle and Rolland Clair Root, a construction supervisor. He graduated from Vero Beach High School in Vero Beach, Florida. He is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he majored in acting and broadcasting.
Among his most recognized television roles are eccentric billionaire Jimmy James on the sitcom NewsRadio and as the voice of depressed Army barber Bill Dauterive and Hank Hill's skirt-chasing boss Buck Strickland on the animated television series King of the Hill (Root originally auditioned for the role of Dale). He had a recurring role on the final two seasons of The West Wing as Republican campaign consultant Bob Mayer. His most recognizable film roles to date are as the mumbling, quirky Milton Waddams in Office Space, as the mild-mannered gymrat Gordon Pibb in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, as Suds, a drunk sports writer, in Leatherheads, and as the dimwitted principal in the 2008 Judd Apatow produced comedy Drillbit Taylor.
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Terry Dodson
Terrence "Terry" Dodson is an American comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for his work on titles such as Harley Quinn, Trouble, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and Uncanny X-Men. His pencils are usually inked by his wife Rachel Dodson, who is a comic book inker and colorist.
Dodson began his illustration career in 1991 at Revolutionary Comics, drawing issues of Rock 'N' Roll Comics that featured illustrated bios of performers like Rod Stewart (#38) and others. He first came to mainstream prominence as the artist on Malibu Comics' Ultraverse title Mantra in 1993. He co-created the character with writer Mike W. Barr.
In early 1996, he drew a four issue Storm mini series (starring the X-Men character of the same name), which was written by Warren Ellis, inked by Karl Story and published by Marvel Comics.
Later that same year this creative team reunited for another X-Men-related limited series - the 3 issue Pryde and Wisdom title, starring Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom.
In 1998, he became regular penciller of Marvel's Generation X, where he remained until 2000 (#38-60).
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Tim Burton
Timothy Walter "Tim" Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, film producer, writer and artist. He is famous for quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Dark Shadows and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the tenth highest-grossing film of all time.
Burton is known for using recurring collaborators on his works; among them are Johnny Depp, who has become a close friend of Burton since their first film together; musician Danny Elfman, who has composed for all but five of the films Burton has directed or produced; and domestic partner Helena Bonham Carter. He also wrote and illustrated the poetry book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, published in 1997, and a compilation of his drawings, entitled The Art of Tim Burton, was released in 2009. Burton has directed 16 films and produced 12, as of 2012. His latest films are an adaptation of the soap opera Dark Shadows, released on May 10, 2012, and a remake of his 1984 short, Frankenweenie, scheduled to be released on October 5, 2012.
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Tracy Morgan
Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American actor and comedian who is best known for his eight seasons as a cast member on Saturday Night Live as well as the role of Tracy Jordan on the NBC series 30 Rock.
Morgan was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, the second of five children of Alicia (née Warden), a homemaker, and James Morgan, Jr., a musician. Morgan says his father returned after multiple tours of duty in Vietnam addicted to heroin, causing him to leave the family when Morgan was six. He was the target of bullies as a child. His older brother had cerebral palsy and could not protect him so he used comedy to make bullies laugh rather than being beat up. Before Morgan began his career, he worked in New York City as a painter, for L&L Painting and Rose Company.
Morgan began his career on Martin, where he played Hustle Man. The character sold various items he had from the "hood," always greeting people with his trademark "What's happ'n, chief?" and had a pet dog that he dressed as a rapper. In the 2003 Chris Rock film Head of State, Morgan appeared as a man watching television, often questioning why they are not watching Martin.
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Victor Zsasz
Victor Zsasz ( /ˈʒæz/ or /ˈzæz/) is a fictional character, a supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics and was usually an enemy of Batman. He is a serial killer who usually kills with a knife and carves a tally mark somewhere on himself for every victim.
Zsasz first appeared in Shadow of the Bat #1 (1992) as part of the Batman: The Last Arkham four-part story arc, and his origin story was told in Batman Chronicles #3 (1996); both stories were written by Alan Grant and drawn by Norm Breyfogle. As revealed in the foreword to the TPB form of The Last Arkham, Zsasz's name is derived from that of psychiatrist Thomas Szasz; Grant saw the name while visiting a library.
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Walt Flanagan
Walter Flanagan (born October 23, 1967) is a comic book store proprietor, reality TV star, podcaster, comic book artist, actor and songwriter. Flanagan is a long-time friend of Kevin Smith, and (according to Smith's book Silent Bob Speaks) it was Flanagan who had turned Smith onto comic books.
Flanagan is co-host of the "Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!" podcast with longtime friends Bryan Johnson and Brian Quinn. Walter is also the lead star in AMC's "Comic Book Men", which premiered in February 2012.
He has provided the art for two comic books published by IDW and written by Bryan Johnson, as well as two for DC Comics:
Walt Flanagan has also been the subject of a few inside jokes in the Askewniverse movies. In Clerks and Mallrats, respectively, both Randal and Brodie tell bizarre stories of their cousin Walter. Seeing as Randal and Brodie are supposed to be cousins themselves according to Smith, one would only assume that they are speaking of the same cousin Walter.
Also, in Mallrats, Jay makes the comment "Damn, that bastard's faster than Walt Flanagan's dog." This comment is expanded upon in the comic book prequel to Mallrats starring Jay and Silent Bob, where they get Walt's dog high. When provoked, Krypto (the dog) hops the fence, and chases the stoner duo across Leonardo township (passing the YMCA where Julie Dwyer has just met her untimely demise).
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Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon /ˈziːvɒn/ (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.
Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known musicians, including Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young. His best-known compositions include "Werewolves of London", "Lawyers, Guns and Money", "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" and "Johnny Strikes Up The Band," all of which are featured on his third album, Excitable Boy (1978). Other well-known songs written by Zevon have been recorded by other artists, including "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (a top 40 hit by Linda Ronstadt), "Accidentally Like a Martyr," "Mohammed's Radio", "Carmelita", and "Hasten Down the Wind".
Along with his own compositions, Zevon recorded or performed occasional covers, including Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan". He was a frequent guest on Late Night with David Letterman and The Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman later performed guest vocals on "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)" with Paul Shaffer and members of the CBS Orchestra on Warren Zevon's "My Ride Is Here" album.
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William Faulkner
William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood, and Holly Springs/Marshall County.
Faulkner is one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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Smith, Kevin Filmography
- Hit Somebody (2013)
- Hit Somebody (2013)
- One (2013)
- Hit Somebody (2013)
- BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012)
- G4 Presents Comic Con 2012 Live (2012)
- SMarchive (2012)
- Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging in the UK (2012)
- For a Good Time, Call... (2012)
- SMorning Show and Tell (2012)
- Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging in the UK (2012)
- Jay & Silent Bob Get Old: Classic (2012)
- Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell (2012)
- Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell (2012)
- Jay and Silent Bob Get Old: Tea Bagging in the UK (2012)
- The Rep (2012)
- Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell (2012)
- Kingdom Come (2011)
- Red State (2011)
- SModimations (2011)
- Red State (2011)
- Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011)
- Red State (2011)
- Hollywood Babble-On Live 5/22/2011 (2011)
- Hughes the Force (2011)
- A Night of 140 Tweets: A Celebrity Tweet-A-Thon for Haiti (2010)
- Cop Out: Maximum Comedy Mode (2010)
- Cop Out (2010)
- With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010)
- Cop Out (2010)
- Bear Nation (2010)
- Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
- Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40! (2010)
- 4.3.2.1 (2010)
- Live from the NYPL: A Tribute to George Carlin (2010)
- Fanboys (2009)
- The Flying Car (2009)
- Adult Entertainment Expo '09 (2009)
- Kevin Smith Interview - Vail Film Festival (2009)
- Money Shots (2009)
- Kevin Smith Renegade Award 2009 Vail Film Festival (2009)
- Degrassi Goes Hollywood (2009)
- Official Rejection (2009)
- Don't You Forget About Me (2009)
- Tracing Amy: The Chasing Amy Doc (2009)
- Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' (2009)
- Popcorn Porn: Watching 'Zack and Miri Make a Porno' (2009)
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
- Scream Awards 2008 (2008)
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
- G4 Presents Comic-Con '08 Live (2008)
- Kevin Smith: Sold Out - A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2008)
- Superman/Doomsday (2007)
- Suck My Geek! (2007)
- The Junior Defenders (2007)
- Analog Hero in a Digital World: Making of 'Live Free or Die Hard' (2007)
- The Shark Is Still Working (2007)
- Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
- Comic-Con 2007 Live (2007)
- 'Hot Fuzz': The Fuzzball Rally (2007)
- TMNT (2007)
- Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed (2007)
- Manchild (2007)
- Marvel Then and Now: An Evening with Stan Lee and Joe Quesada (2007)
- The Green Arrow: Legend of the Emerald Archer (2007)
- Clerks II (2006)
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
- An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder (2006)
- Back to the Well: 'Clerks II' (2006)
- Bottoms Up (2006)
- Catch and Release (2006)
- Clerks II (2006)
- Clerks II: Unauthorized (2006)
- Clerks II (2006)
- Doogal (2006)
- Train Wreck! (2006)
- Hollywood's Master Storytellers: Spiderman Live (2006)
- Clerks II (2006)
- Small Town Gay Bar (2006)
- 2006 Independent Spirit Awards (2006)
- Southland Tales (2006)
- Back to the Well: 'Clerks II' (2006)
- The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (2006)
- Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight - The Legend Reborn (2005)
- Reel Paradise (2005)
- 05 Spaceys (2005)
- Batman Heroes: Batman (2005)
- Legends of the Dark Knight: The History of Batman (2005)
- Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi (2005)
- Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi (2005)
- Fuck (2005)
- Batman Returns Heroes: Alfred (2005)
- Reel Paradise (2005)
- 'Clerks' 10th Anniversary Q & A (2004)
- Comic Book: The Movie (2004)
- My Date with Drew (2004)
- Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party (2004)
- Reflections on 'The X-Files' (2004)
- Snowball Effect: The Story of 'Clerks' (2004)
- When Star Wars Ruled the World (2004)
- Clerks: The Lost Scene (2004)
- Clerks: The Lost Scene (2004)
- Jersey Girl (2004)
- Jersey Girl (2004)
- Jersey Girl (2004)
- Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (2003)
- A New Low (2003)
- The Men Without Fear: Creating 'Daredevil' (2003)
- DVD Exclusive Awards (2003)
- Hardware: Uncensored Music Videos - Hip Hop Volume 1 (2003)
- Daredevil, Vol. 1: Guardian Devil (2003)
- Daredevil (2003)
- The Flying Car (2002)
- The Flying Car (2002)
- An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002)
- Now You Know (2002)
- The Flying Car (2002)
- Roadside Attractions (2002)
- Spider-Man: The Mythology of the 21st Century (2002)
- Heroes of Black Comedy (2002)
- Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels (2002)
- The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards (2002)
- Roadside Attractions (2002)
- Wizard World Chicago 2002 (2002)
- Now You Know (2002)
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma (2001)
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- Untitled Prince Documentary (2001)
- Starwoids (2001)
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- Untitled Prince Documentary (2001)
- The Concert for New York City (2001)
- Judge Not: In Defense of Dogma (2001)
- Planet of the Apes: Rule the Planet (2001)
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- The Concert for New York City (2001)
- The Concert for New York City (2001)
- Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- Film-Fest DVD: Issue 4 - Hawaii (2000)
- Scream 3 (2000)
- Vulgar (2000)
- Lucy You Love It (2000)
- Chasing Kevin (2000)
- Vulgar (2000)
- Dogma (1999)
- Big Helium Dog (1999)
- The Blair Clown Project (1999)
- Dogma (1999)
- Dogma (1999)
- Dogma (1999)
- Tail Lights Fade (1999)
- Tail Lights Fade (1999)
- Big Helium Dog (1999)
- View Askew's Look Back at 'Mallrats' (1999)
- Independent's Day (1998)
- Chasing Amy (1997)
- Chasing Amy (1997)
- Chasing Amy (1997)
- The Michael Moore Show (1997)
- A Better Place (1997)
- Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Chasing Amy (1997)
- Hiatus (1996)
- Hiatus (1996)
- Drawing Flies (1996)
- Hiatus (1996)
- Drawing Flies (1996)
- Mallrats (1995)
- Clerks. (1995)
- Mallrats (1995)
- Mallrats (1995)
- Clerks. (1994)
- Clerks. (1994)
- Clerks. (1994)
- Clerks. (1994)
- Clerks. (1994)
- Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary (1992)
- Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary (1992)
- Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary (1992)
- Mae Day: The Crumbling of a Documentary (1992)
Smith, Kevin Filmography
- Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao (2005)
- Riverworld (2003)
- You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (2002)
- The Meeting (2001)
- Love Mussel (2001)
- Lawless: Beyond Justice (2001)
- Lawless: Dead Evidence (2001)
- Jubilee (2000)
- Channelling Baby (2000)
- Happy Birthday 2 You (2000)
- Look Who's Famous Now (1999)
- Lawless (1999)
- Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (1998)
- Young Hercules (1998)
- Flatmates (1998)
- Young Hercules (1998)
- Frontier (1997)
- Kevin Rampenbacker and the Electric Kettle (1994)
- Desperate Remedies (1993)
- Shortland Street (1992)
- My Daughter's Keeper (1991)
- Away Laughing (1991)
- Mon Desir (1991)
- Deadly (1991)
- Gloss (1987)
- Screamtime (1986)
Smith, Kevin Filmography
- The Eskimo: Fight for Life (1970)
- At the Autumn River Camp: Part 2 (1967)
- At the Caribou Crossing Place: Part 1 (1967)
- At the Caribou Crossing Place: Part 2 (1967)
- At the Spring Sea Ice Camp: Part 1 (1967)
- At the Spring Sea Ice Camp: Part 2 (1967)
- At the Spring Sea Ice Camp: Part 3 (1967)
- At the Winter Sea Ice Camp: Part 1 (1967)
- At the Winter Sea Ice Camp: Part 2 (1967)
- At the Winter Sea Ice Camp: Part 3 (1967)
- At the Winter Sea Ice Camp: Part 4 (1967)
- At the Autumn River Camp: Part 1 (1967)
- Building a Kayak: Part 2 (1967)
- Fishing at the Stone Weir: Part 1 (1967)
- Fishing at the Stone Weir: Part 2 (1967)
- Group Hunting on the Spring Ice: Part 1 (1967)
- Group Hunting on the Spring Ice: Part 2 (1967)
- Group Hunting on the Spring Ice: Part 3 (1967)
- Jigging for Lake Trout (1967)
- Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice: Part 1 (1967)
- Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice: Part 2 (1967)
- Building a Kayak: Part 1 (1967)
Famous quotes by Kevin Smith:
"We know that based on the Lewis and Clark costs and our capital costs, this probably isn't the last rate increase in the next 10 years."
"It would be nice to know what the next five years will bring, but we don't."
"Now you've gotta spend two thousand bucks to stay at my house. And for five, I'll let you photograph my wife in the shower."
"How lame do you have to be to spend your time like that on the Internet? Can't you do something more constructive, like surf the porn? Or go into the real world and interact with people rather than cyber-sniping."
"If you go off the road, it could be a while,"
"A whole lot of innocuous material. This is the ideal DVD for the shut-in, and the socially maladjusted. If your mother is your best friend, this is the DVD for you."
"Read the comics, which are probably far better than the film would be if I was involved. Otherwise, my version of Batman would be like him standing around talking for two weeks and not getting anything done. The Bat-A-Rang would never leave the utility belt. It would just be chatting."
"Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved."
"I'm going to hell. I know it. But I knew that back on Dogma . It's not news to me. I'm just going to enjoy the ride on the way there."
"If I had any balls whatsoever, I'd make nothing but Jay and Silent Bob flicks for the rest of my life. However, being a critical whore, I've gotta move on and 'grow' beyond those characters."
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An Evening With Kevin Smith - English/Spanish
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- Duration: 127:16
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Remember old days, I decided to up 2 hours of "An Evening with Kevin Smith" (2002). Studio: www.viewaskew.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/YesThatKevinSmith Blog: www.silentbobspeaks.com SmodCast: www.smodcast.com/people/kevin-smith/ Twitter: twitter.com/#!/thatkevinsmith All rights reserved belong Kevin Smith
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Remember old days, I decided to up 2 hours of "An Evening with Kevin Smith" (2002). Studio: www.viewaskew.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/YesThatKevinSmith Blog: www.silentbobspeaks.com SmodCast: www.smodcast.com/people/kevin-smith/ Twitter: twitter.com/#!/thatkevinsmith All rights reserved belong Kevin Smith
Dinner For Five S02E01 - Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
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- Duration: 28:28
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Here is dinner for five episode 1 from season 2 Starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
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Here is dinner for five episode 1 from season 2 Starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
- published: 17 Jul 2012
- views: 64019
- author: DinnerForFive
Kevin Smith Part 1 : Sellling Out And Salty Language
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- Duration: 12:06
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Writer / Director Kevin Smith in an exclusive interview discusses his upcoming film "A Couple Of Cops", set to roll with stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. Smith talks about Mirmax, selling out and more.
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Writer / Director Kevin Smith in an exclusive interview discusses his upcoming film "A Couple Of Cops", set to roll with stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. Smith talks about Mirmax, selling out and more.
- published: 12 Mar 2009
- views: 197430
- author: Stranahan
Kevin Smith talks about Superman
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- Duration: 19:25
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
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- published: 10 Mar 2006
- views: 2076268
- author: Underdog21
Kevin Smith: Prince part 1
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- Duration: 9:46
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Part 1 of Kevin Smith talking about his week with Prince. Buy the DVD: An evening with Kevin Smith.
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Part 1 of Kevin Smith talking about his week with Prince. Buy the DVD: An evening with Kevin Smith.
- published: 01 Aug 2008
- views: 495206
- author: gerv55
kevin smith burn in hell part 1 0f 2 q&a; smodcast red state film god hates fred phelps family
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- Duration: 44:27
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Rare q&a; from a screening of Red State also available on netflix
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Rare q&a; from a screening of Red State also available on netflix
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 15322
- author: dork king
Kevin Smith's Favorite Moments in The Dark Knight Rises
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- Duration: 6:04
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith getting emotional about the end of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. This was edited from his podcasts which can be found here: Part 1 (Fat Man on Batman #8) - smodcast.com Part 2 (SModcast #218) - smodcast.com
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Kevin Smith getting emotional about the end of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy. This was edited from his podcasts which can be found here: Part 1 (Fat Man on Batman #8) - smodcast.com Part 2 (SModcast #218) - smodcast.com
- published: 03 Aug 2012
- views: 181552
- author: scrupulousvirility
Kevin Smith Burn In Hell (Full Q&A;) Louder Version
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 88:54
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy) gives a Q&A; in Austin, Texas. Smith speaks candidly on Red State, Westboro Baptist Church, Batman, his critics, retirement, and the death of his father. Full event in one part. The volume has been evened out and made louder.
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith_Burn_In_Hell_Full_Q&A;_Louder_Version
Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy) gives a Q&A; in Austin, Texas. Smith speaks candidly on Red State, Westboro Baptist Church, Batman, his critics, retirement, and the death of his father. Full event in one part. The volume has been evened out and made louder.
- published: 14 Jun 2012
- views: 68744
- author: domesticatedanimal77
Kevin Smith Part 2: Writing & Filmmaking
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- Duration: 13:08
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Writer / Director Kevin Smith talks about how he started writing and making movies, his growth as a film maker and the advantages of being in film school for 16 years
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith_Part_2_Writing_Filmmaking
Writer / Director Kevin Smith talks about how he started writing and making movies, his growth as a film maker and the advantages of being in film school for 16 years
- published: 15 Mar 2009
- views: 129398
- author: Stranahan
Kevin Smith Part 3: Change, Death, Legacy
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- Duration: 9:06
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Writer / Director Kevin Smith in an exclusive interview discusses his upcoming film "A Couple Of Dicks" discusses his career, what his Dad would think, what motivates him and his legacy
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Writer / Director Kevin Smith in an exclusive interview discusses his upcoming film "A Couple Of Dicks" discusses his career, what his Dad would think, what motivates him and his legacy
- published: 17 Mar 2009
- views: 65343
- author: Stranahan
Kevin Smith Protests Dogma
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- Duration: 1:49
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Director Kevin Smith of the movie Dogma. Is Found Protesting his own movie. Although he would not give his real name to the News Crew.
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Director Kevin Smith of the movie Dogma. Is Found Protesting his own movie. Although he would not give his real name to the News Crew.
- published: 28 Sep 2007
- views: 640048
- author: acphotognj
An Evening With Kevin Smith 23/40 - Superman Reborn
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- Duration: 19:28
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Click here to watch the entire show: bit.ly Kevin is talking about how he (almost) wrote the script for a superman movie
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Click here to watch the entire show: bit.ly Kevin is talking about how he (almost) wrote the script for a superman movie
- published: 15 Dec 2011
- views: 47693
- author: TrickyMovies
San Diego Comic Con 2012 - Kevin Smith Panel - Part 1
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- Duration: 15:13
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
Here is the first video for the Kevin Smith Panel at the 2012 San Diego Comic Convention. ---------------------------------------------------------------- San Diego Comic Con Link: www.comic-con.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- How to find me on the Web: Dueling Network Screen Name: GalacticGod Facebook Link: www.facebook.com Twitter Link: twitter.com
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Here is the first video for the Kevin Smith Panel at the 2012 San Diego Comic Convention. ---------------------------------------------------------------- San Diego Comic Con Link: www.comic-con.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- How to find me on the Web: Dueling Network Screen Name: GalacticGod Facebook Link: www.facebook.com Twitter Link: twitter.com
- published: 15 Jul 2012
- views: 11655
- author: GalacticGod
Kevin Smith talks about Getting Bruce Willis to do a "David Addison"
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- Duration: 10:10
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Director Kevin Smith Discusses working with a real Movie Star.
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Director Kevin Smith Discusses working with a real Movie Star.
- published: 23 Jan 2012
- views: 55353
- author: wjmcintyre
Kevin Smith - Explaining the meaning of life as an artist
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- Duration: 11:43
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
This video is from his newest video Q&A; session "Kevin Smith-Burn In Hell" One of the most inspiring stories we have ever heard from him. THIS IS A MUST WATCH. Everybody needs to see this.
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This video is from his newest video Q&A; session "Kevin Smith-Burn In Hell" One of the most inspiring stories we have ever heard from him. THIS IS A MUST WATCH. Everybody needs to see this.
- published: 13 Mar 2012
- views: 29917
- author: ZiLBERLaND
Jay and Silent Bob get old !
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- Duration: 11:14
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Actor and director kevin Smith and actor Jason Mewes arise early to amuse and bemuse the Breakfast team.. Zoinks!
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Actor and director kevin Smith and actor Jason Mewes arise early to amuse and bemuse the Breakfast team.. Zoinks!
- published: 23 Apr 2012
- views: 52729
- author: ten
The Hour: Kevin Smith
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- Duration: 12:43
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Director Kevin Smith on breaking into the big time with "Cop Out."
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Director Kevin Smith on breaking into the big time with "Cop Out."
- published: 31 Mar 2010
- views: 25986
- author: CBCtv
Kevin Smith Part 4: The Dark Side Of The Internet
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- Duration: 10:30
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Writer / Director Kevin Smith in an exclusive interview talks about his recent revelations about the internet.
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Writer / Director Kevin Smith in an exclusive interview talks about his recent revelations about the internet.
- published: 22 Mar 2009
- views: 213456
- author: Stranahan
JAY & SILENT BOB GET OLD: Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes see THE AVENGERS - SIT
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- Duration: 3:42
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes discuss seeing The Avengers early. "Recorded live from Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, AUS on 28 April 2012. Click here to see Jon Lovitz discuss Obama from "The ABC's of SNL" youtu.be Check out more Live! SModCo hilarity - www.youtube.com ---------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE SIT CONTENT! www.youtube.com FOR MORE TALKING, GO TO: smodcast.com SEE SMOD LIVE, GO TO: seesmod.com TWITTER: @SModCoSIT FACEBOOK: facebook.com ----- JAY & SILENT BOB GET OLD: Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes see THE AVENGERS - SIT
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Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes discuss seeing The Avengers early. "Recorded live from Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide, AUS on 28 April 2012. Click here to see Jon Lovitz discuss Obama from "The ABC's of SNL" youtu.be Check out more Live! SModCo hilarity - www.youtube.com ---------------------------------------- SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE SIT CONTENT! www.youtube.com FOR MORE TALKING, GO TO: smodcast.com SEE SMOD LIVE, GO TO: seesmod.com TWITTER: @SModCoSIT FACEBOOK: facebook.com ----- JAY & SILENT BOB GET OLD: Kevin Smith & Jason Mewes see THE AVENGERS - SIT
- published: 02 May 2012
- views: 156750
- author: seesmod
Kevn Smith: How & Why He Made "Clerks"
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- Duration: 9:18
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
How Many Days? Day 693 Writer/Director Kevin Smith explains why he made his debut film "Clerks" and what his expectations for the film were before it became a Sundance hit and found Mirimax.Filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth is on a mission to meet the Hollywood professionals that have inspired him in his career thus far. Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Jimmy Eat World, Zach Braff, Tom Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp, Harry Knowles, Dan Mirvish, Bryan Singer, and Ellen DeGeneres. Click here to see the daily video journals from Gavin as he asks, pleads, begs, whines for these people to sit down for dinner and offer advice and encouragement for his directing career. If you have a lead... contact Gavin: 519.560.1673 aap_gavin@hotmail.com www.howmanydays.ca
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How Many Days? Day 693 Writer/Director Kevin Smith explains why he made his debut film "Clerks" and what his expectations for the film were before it became a Sundance hit and found Mirimax.Filmmaker Gavin Michael Booth is on a mission to meet the Hollywood professionals that have inspired him in his career thus far. Steven Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Jimmy Eat World, Zach Braff, Tom Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Johnny Depp, Harry Knowles, Dan Mirvish, Bryan Singer, and Ellen DeGeneres. Click here to see the daily video journals from Gavin as he asks, pleads, begs, whines for these people to sit down for dinner and offer advice and encouragement for his directing career. If you have a lead... contact Gavin: 519.560.1673 aap_gavin@hotmail.com www.howmanydays.ca
- published: 28 Feb 2009
- views: 42760
- author: GavinMichaelBooth
An Evening With Kevin Smith
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- Duration: 224:28
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Controversial Director, Kevin Smith takes his acerbic wit on a Q&A;/Stand up tour, in this hilarious and often revealing look at the life of a slacker turned Hollywood player.
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Controversial Director, Kevin Smith takes his acerbic wit on a Q&A;/Stand up tour, in this hilarious and often revealing look at the life of a slacker turned Hollywood player.
- published: 20 Jan 2012
- author: CrackleUK
Kevin Smith Protests against Dogma
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- Duration: 8:36
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith, director and writer of the movie Dogma, tells how he goes to protest against his own movie. [update] The news clipping was also uploaded on youtube: www.youtube.com
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Kevin Smith, director and writer of the movie Dogma, tells how he goes to protest against his own movie. [update] The news clipping was also uploaded on youtube: www.youtube.com
- published: 20 Aug 2006
- views: 413292
- author: LordAlderaan
Clerks Movie Trailer
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- Duration: 1:37
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
When Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is reluctantly put in charge of the Quick Stop market on his day off, he tries, though half-heartedly, to perform his minimum-wage duties as efficiently as possible. This gets tough amidst the on-going fight with his girlfriend, Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti), and his attempt to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Caitlyn Bree (Lisa Spoonhauer). Meanwhile, his friend and alter ego Randall (Jeff Anderson) is working behind the counter of the adjacent video store -- at least when he feels like it. Randall's unabashed disdain of his place of employment, a long with his self-admitted hatred towards its customers is a sharp contrast to Dante's feeble attempts at the niceties of customer service. Much of the film consists of Randall and Dante's criticism of their customers, their lives, and the world in general. Clerks, filmed in black-and-white on a budget of only $27000, began the career of writer director Kevin Smith, who would go on to make Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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When Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) is reluctantly put in charge of the Quick Stop market on his day off, he tries, though half-heartedly, to perform his minimum-wage duties as efficiently as possible. This gets tough amidst the on-going fight with his girlfriend, Veronica (Marilyn Ghigliotti), and his attempt to get back together with his ex-girlfriend, Caitlyn Bree (Lisa Spoonhauer). Meanwhile, his friend and alter ego Randall (Jeff Anderson) is working behind the counter of the adjacent video store -- at least when he feels like it. Randall's unabashed disdain of his place of employment, a long with his self-admitted hatred towards its customers is a sharp contrast to Dante's feeble attempts at the niceties of customer service. Much of the film consists of Randall and Dante's criticism of their customers, their lives, and the world in general. Clerks, filmed in black-and-white on a budget of only $27000, began the career of writer director Kevin Smith, who would go on to make Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- published: 11 Sep 2006
- views: 501422
- author: arcadeshopper
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Kevin Smith Burn In Hell (Full Q&A;) Louder Version
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 88:54
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy) gives a Q&A; in Austin, Texas. Smith speaks candidly on Red State, Westboro Baptist Church, Batman, his critics, retirement, and the death of his father. Full event in one part. The volume has been evened out and made louder.
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith_Burn_In_Hell_Full_Q&A;_Louder_Version
Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy) gives a Q&A; in Austin, Texas. Smith speaks candidly on Red State, Westboro Baptist Church, Batman, his critics, retirement, and the death of his father. Full event in one part. The volume has been evened out and made louder.
- published: 14 Jun 2012
- views: 68112
- author: domesticatedanimal77
An Evening With Kevin Smith - English/Spanish
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- Duration: 127:16
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Remember old days, I decided to up 2 hours of "An Evening with Kevin Smith" (2002). Studio: www.viewaskew.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/YesThatKevinSmith Blog: www.silentbobspeaks.com SmodCast: www.smodcast.com/people/kevin-smith/ Twitter: twitter.com/#!/thatkevinsmith All rights reserved belong Kevin Smith
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Remember old days, I decided to up 2 hours of "An Evening with Kevin Smith" (2002). Studio: www.viewaskew.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/YesThatKevinSmith Blog: www.silentbobspeaks.com SmodCast: www.smodcast.com/people/kevin-smith/ Twitter: twitter.com/#!/thatkevinsmith All rights reserved belong Kevin Smith
- published: 09 May 2012
- views: 79384
- author: Underdog21
Dinner For Five S02E01 - Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
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- Duration: 28:28
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Here is dinner for five episode 1 from season 2 Starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
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Here is dinner for five episode 1 from season 2 Starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
- published: 17 Jul 2012
- views: 62303
- author: DinnerForFive
kevin smith burn in hell part 1 0f 2 q&a; smodcast red state film god hates fred phelps family
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- Duration: 44:27
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Rare q&a; from a screening of Red State also available on netflix
http://wn.com/kevin_smith_burn_in_hell_part_1_0f_2_q&a;_smodcast_red_state_film_god_hates_fred_phelps_family
Rare q&a; from a screening of Red State also available on netflix
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 14829
- author: dork king
Kevin Smith on: Star Wars episode 7-9
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- Duration: 29:12
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
i know all these photos seem to be making fun of the new Star wars films, but personally i think that Episode 7 means nothing but good things.
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i know all these photos seem to be making fun of the new Star wars films, but personally i think that Episode 7 means nothing but good things.
- published: 28 Nov 2012
- views: 1344
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Clerks
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- Duration: 91:48
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
This fully loaded 15th Anniversary Edition of Kevin Smith's legendary directorial debut is the one to own. Even more outrageous on Bluray and complete with new bonus material it's the most brilliant and uncompromising presentation yet. CLERKS is one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razorsharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service. With hilarious bonus features you should just plunk down your effin' cash now and add this to your collection of great movies. 2011 Miramax
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This fully loaded 15th Anniversary Edition of Kevin Smith's legendary directorial debut is the one to own. Even more outrageous on Bluray and complete with new bonus material it's the most brilliant and uncompromising presentation yet. CLERKS is one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razorsharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service. With hilarious bonus features you should just plunk down your effin' cash now and add this to your collection of great movies. 2011 Miramax
- published: 28 Nov 2012
- author: LionsgateUKMovies
Kevin Smith on: Batman
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- Duration: 79:28
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
wether you love Kevin Smith or are planning to hire a hitman to take him out, you HAVE to admit that his passion for Batman is amazing.
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wether you love Kevin Smith or are planning to hire a hitman to take him out, you HAVE to admit that his passion for Batman is amazing.
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 6649
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: Star Trek
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- Duration: 83:28
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
to boldly go where no man has gone before.... THE GYM!
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to boldly go where no man has gone before.... THE GYM!
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 1232
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith's SModcast - Interview with Mikey and Gerard Way (My Chemical Bromance)
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- Duration: 127:07
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
WATCH PART 2 HERE: www.youtube.com check my My Chemical Romance page: www.facebook.com Follow me on Tumblr: mcraddicted.tumblr.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Listen to Kevin Smith have a playdate with Mikey & Gerard Way. You'll hear things about their past you've never heard before. The episode, co-written by Gerard is called "Anti-Bats Are Go" and he describes it as "the Superman II version of The Aquabats." The episode features a thrashcore band called Asthma, and Mikey Way makes his acting debut playing the singer. The brothers also discuss the challenges of writing music after being on the road for an extended period of time and how that translated to 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, the their musical upbringings, including the music they listened to when they were young and their first bands: an instrumental metal band pronounced "Drakkora," a Rites Of Spring and Promise Ring-esque band, Raygun Jones, and a punk band called Nancy Drew.
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith's_SModcast_Interview_with_Mikey_and_Gerard_Way_My_Chemical_Bromance
WATCH PART 2 HERE: www.youtube.com check my My Chemical Romance page: www.facebook.com Follow me on Tumblr: mcraddicted.tumblr.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Listen to Kevin Smith have a playdate with Mikey & Gerard Way. You'll hear things about their past you've never heard before. The episode, co-written by Gerard is called "Anti-Bats Are Go" and he describes it as "the Superman II version of The Aquabats." The episode features a thrashcore band called Asthma, and Mikey Way makes his acting debut playing the singer. The brothers also discuss the challenges of writing music after being on the road for an extended period of time and how that translated to 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, the their musical upbringings, including the music they listened to when they were young and their first bands: an instrumental metal band pronounced "Drakkora," a Rites Of Spring and Promise Ring-esque band, Raygun Jones, and a punk band called Nancy Drew.
- published: 04 Dec 2012
- views: 2948
- author: ChemicalMonsteer
Kevin Smith: Dark Knight Rises plot holes
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- Duration: 96:01
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
to be fair, if you look hard enough, you can find plot holes anywhere.
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to be fair, if you look hard enough, you can find plot holes anywhere.
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 27413
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: Avengers vs Dark Knight Rises
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- Duration: 31:21
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
which side of the debate do you fall on?
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith_on_Avengers_vs_Dark_Knight_Rises
which side of the debate do you fall on?
- published: 21 Nov 2012
- views: 4939
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith vs Mick Foley
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- Duration: 117:01
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
as known in wrestling circles as a SHOOT interview
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as known in wrestling circles as a SHOOT interview
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 4006
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith interviews Tara Strong Fat Man on Batman #004
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- Duration: 84:26
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Fat Man on Batman #4: Tara Strong: Batgirl, Bubbles and Bronies June 24, 2012
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Fat Man on Batman #4: Tara Strong: Batgirl, Bubbles and Bronies June 24, 2012
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 7240
- author: INCoGNIT097
Kevin Smith on: Clerks 3
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- Duration: 101:33
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
really hope this film happens, i LOVED Clerks 1 & 2, and i think that if/ when Clerks 3 comes: Smith will make sure it's the best of them all. which do you think we'll see first: Clerks 3 or Ghostbusters 3?
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really hope this film happens, i LOVED Clerks 1 & 2, and i think that if/ when Clerks 3 comes: Smith will make sure it's the best of them all. which do you think we'll see first: Clerks 3 or Ghostbusters 3?
- published: 10 Dec 2012
- views: 1597
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
The Joe Rogan Experience #134 - Kevin Smith (Full)
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- Duration: 171:33
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
The Joe Rogan Experience #134 Ft. Kevin Smith This episode was originally uploaded into 4 parts because of difficulties while they were recording it live. The parts didn't fit together seamlessly, so the next best thing was to put a small break between parts. After hours of finding the right program, converting every part, and editing them together ... It is finally here! The full JRE #134 Ft. Kevin Smith! Enjoy!
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The Joe Rogan Experience #134 Ft. Kevin Smith This episode was originally uploaded into 4 parts because of difficulties while they were recording it live. The parts didn't fit together seamlessly, so the next best thing was to put a small break between parts. After hours of finding the right program, converting every part, and editing them together ... It is finally here! The full JRE #134 Ft. Kevin Smith! Enjoy!
- published: 02 Sep 2012
- views: 11574
- author: ThePodcastPit
Kevin Smith interviews Gerard & Mikey Way (My Chemical Romance)
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- Duration: 102:44
- Updated: 23 Dec 2012
smodcast.com Dec 4, 2012 - In which our hero has a play date with Gerard and Mikey Way. (I couldn't upload part 2 to YouTube because of copyrighted music so here's the link below) PART 2 LINK - http Follow Kevin @ twitter.com Follow Gerard @ twitter.com Follow Mikey @ twitter.com My Chemical Romance's Website - mychemicalromance.com My Chemical Romance's YouTube - http My Chemical Romance's Twitter - twitter.com
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smodcast.com Dec 4, 2012 - In which our hero has a play date with Gerard and Mikey Way. (I couldn't upload part 2 to YouTube because of copyrighted music so here's the link below) PART 2 LINK - http Follow Kevin @ twitter.com Follow Gerard @ twitter.com Follow Mikey @ twitter.com My Chemical Romance's Website - mychemicalromance.com My Chemical Romance's YouTube - http My Chemical Romance's Twitter - twitter.com
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 529
- author: AnyPodcast
Avid® Rough Cut ‒ Kevin Smith at the 2011 NAB Show (Keynote)
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- Duration: 57:35
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Subscribe on iTunes ‒ www.itunes.com Follow Matt on Twitter ‒ twitter.com It's more from Kevin Smith with Avid at NAB 2011! The day after his presentation at the Avid Main Stage, Kevin goes into more detail about Red State, takes questions from the audience and gives some great inspirational advice for those aspiring to be creative professionals.
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Subscribe on iTunes ‒ www.itunes.com Follow Matt on Twitter ‒ twitter.com It's more from Kevin Smith with Avid at NAB 2011! The day after his presentation at the Avid Main Stage, Kevin goes into more detail about Red State, takes questions from the audience and gives some great inspirational advice for those aspiring to be creative professionals.
- published: 21 Aug 2011
- views: 4060
- author: avid
An Evening With Kevin Smith - Star Wars Celebration VI
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- Duration: 58:02
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
The first hour with Kevin Smith!!! My battery unfortunately died so I didn't get the whole interview =/ Enjoy!
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The first hour with Kevin Smith!!! My battery unfortunately died so I didn't get the whole interview =/ Enjoy!
- published: 24 Aug 2012
- views: 11457
- author: Carmen Williams
Kevin Smith on: Marvel vs DC
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- Duration: 32:34
- Updated: 22 Dec 2012
so, which side do you fall on?
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith_on_Marvel_vs_DC
Kevin Smith: 2012 Comic-Con Q&A;
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- Duration: 117:21
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
the place Kevin Smith was born to perform!
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith_2012_Comic-Con_Q&A;
the place Kevin Smith was born to perform!
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 805
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: The Dark Knight Rises
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- Duration: 91:58
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
in MY opinion: best superhero film EVER made. let me know what you think below?
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in MY opinion: best superhero film EVER made. let me know what you think below?
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 8978
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Nerdist with Kevin Smith #1
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- Duration: 91:27
- Updated: 19 Dec 2012
Nerdist with Kevin Smith #2 - youtube.com nerdist.com TOTAL PODMASH as we recorded at the Smodcastle on 1 The boys and Kevin Smith discuss Zsa Zsa, Darth Vader's sexy parts and the REAL story behind Ferris Bueller. Follow Chris @ twitter.com Follow Kevin @ twitter.com Smodcast Podcast Network - smodcast.com Follow Jonah @ http Follow Matt @ twitter.com Nerdist Youtube Channel - youtube.com SmodCo Youtube Channel - youtube.com Nerdist Playlist - youtube.com
http://wn.com/Nerdist_with_Kevin_Smith_1
Nerdist with Kevin Smith #2 - youtube.com nerdist.com TOTAL PODMASH as we recorded at the Smodcastle on 1 The boys and Kevin Smith discuss Zsa Zsa, Darth Vader's sexy parts and the REAL story behind Ferris Bueller. Follow Chris @ twitter.com Follow Kevin @ twitter.com Smodcast Podcast Network - smodcast.com Follow Jonah @ http Follow Matt @ twitter.com Nerdist Youtube Channel - youtube.com SmodCo Youtube Channel - youtube.com Nerdist Playlist - youtube.com
- published: 18 Nov 2012
- views: 670
- author: AnyPodcast
Kevin Smith - Innovation in a small business
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 44:31
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith's workshop - Innovation in a small business at Entrepreneurs Wales 2012.
http://wn.com/Kevin_Smith_Innovation_in_a_small_business
Kevin Smith's workshop - Innovation in a small business at Entrepreneurs Wales 2012.
- published: 23 Nov 2012
- views: 82
- author: businesswales
88:54
Kevin Smith Burn In Hell (Full Q&A;) Louder Version
Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy) gives a Q&A; in Austin, Texas. ...
published: 14 Jun 2012
author: domesticatedanimal77
Kevin Smith Burn In Hell (Full Q&A;) Louder Version
Kevin Smith (director of Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy) gives a Q&A; in Austin, Texas. Smith speaks candidly on Red State, Westboro Baptist Church, Batman, his critics, retirement, and the death of his father. Full event in one part. The volume has been evened out and made louder.
- published: 14 Jun 2012
- views: 68112
- author: domesticatedanimal77
127:16
An Evening With Kevin Smith - English/Spanish
Remember old days, I decided to up 2 hours of "An Evening with Kevin Smith" (2002). Studio...
published: 09 May 2012
author: Underdog21
An Evening With Kevin Smith - English/Spanish
Remember old days, I decided to up 2 hours of "An Evening with Kevin Smith" (2002). Studio: www.viewaskew.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/YesThatKevinSmith Blog: www.silentbobspeaks.com SmodCast: www.smodcast.com/people/kevin-smith/ Twitter: twitter.com/#!/thatkevinsmith All rights reserved belong Kevin Smith
- published: 09 May 2012
- views: 79384
- author: Underdog21
28:28
Dinner For Five S02E01 - Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
Here is dinner for five episode 1 from season 2 Starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin F...
published: 17 Jul 2012
author: DinnerForFive
Dinner For Five S02E01 - Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
Here is dinner for five episode 1 from season 2 Starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith, Colin Farrel, Jennifer Garner
- published: 17 Jul 2012
- views: 62303
- author: DinnerForFive
44:27
kevin smith burn in hell part 1 0f 2 q&a; smodcast red state film god hates fred phelps family
Rare q&a; from a screening of Red State also available on netflix...
published: 13 May 2012
author: dork king
kevin smith burn in hell part 1 0f 2 q&a; smodcast red state film god hates fred phelps family
Rare q&a; from a screening of Red State also available on netflix
- published: 13 May 2012
- views: 14829
- author: dork king
29:12
Kevin Smith on: Star Wars episode 7-9
i know all these photos seem to be making fun of the new Star wars films, but personally i...
published: 28 Nov 2012
author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: Star Wars episode 7-9
i know all these photos seem to be making fun of the new Star wars films, but personally i think that Episode 7 means nothing but good things.
- published: 28 Nov 2012
- views: 1344
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
91:48
Clerks
This fully loaded 15th Anniversary Edition of Kevin Smith's legendary directorial debut is...
published: 28 Nov 2012
author: LionsgateUKMovies
Clerks
This fully loaded 15th Anniversary Edition of Kevin Smith's legendary directorial debut is the one to own. Even more outrageous on Bluray and complete with new bonus material it's the most brilliant and uncompromising presentation yet. CLERKS is one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razorsharp wit and on-the-job antics give a whole new meaning to customer service. With hilarious bonus features you should just plunk down your effin' cash now and add this to your collection of great movies. 2011 Miramax
- published: 28 Nov 2012
- author: LionsgateUKMovies
79:28
Kevin Smith on: Batman
wether you love Kevin Smith or are planning to hire a hitman to take him out, you HAVE to ...
published: 20 Nov 2012
author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: Batman
wether you love Kevin Smith or are planning to hire a hitman to take him out, you HAVE to admit that his passion for Batman is amazing.
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 6649
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
83:28
Kevin Smith on: Star Trek
to boldly go where no man has gone before.... THE GYM!...
published: 20 Nov 2012
author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: Star Trek
to boldly go where no man has gone before.... THE GYM!
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 1232
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
127:07
Kevin Smith's SModcast - Interview with Mikey and Gerard Way (My Chemical Bromance)
WATCH PART 2 HERE: www.youtube.com check my My Chemical Romance page: www.facebook.com Fol...
published: 04 Dec 2012
author: ChemicalMonsteer
Kevin Smith's SModcast - Interview with Mikey and Gerard Way (My Chemical Bromance)
WATCH PART 2 HERE: www.youtube.com check my My Chemical Romance page: www.facebook.com Follow me on Tumblr: mcraddicted.tumblr.com Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com Listen to Kevin Smith have a playdate with Mikey & Gerard Way. You'll hear things about their past you've never heard before. The episode, co-written by Gerard is called "Anti-Bats Are Go" and he describes it as "the Superman II version of The Aquabats." The episode features a thrashcore band called Asthma, and Mikey Way makes his acting debut playing the singer. The brothers also discuss the challenges of writing music after being on the road for an extended period of time and how that translated to 2010's Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, the their musical upbringings, including the music they listened to when they were young and their first bands: an instrumental metal band pronounced "Drakkora," a Rites Of Spring and Promise Ring-esque band, Raygun Jones, and a punk band called Nancy Drew.
- published: 04 Dec 2012
- views: 2948
- author: ChemicalMonsteer
96:01
Kevin Smith: Dark Knight Rises plot holes
to be fair, if you look hard enough, you can find plot holes anywhere....
published: 20 Nov 2012
author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith: Dark Knight Rises plot holes
to be fair, if you look hard enough, you can find plot holes anywhere.
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 27413
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
31:21
Kevin Smith on: Avengers vs Dark Knight Rises
which side of the debate do you fall on?...
published: 21 Nov 2012
author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: Avengers vs Dark Knight Rises
which side of the debate do you fall on?
- published: 21 Nov 2012
- views: 4939
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
117:01
Kevin Smith vs Mick Foley
as known in wrestling circles as a SHOOT interview...
published: 20 Nov 2012
author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith vs Mick Foley
as known in wrestling circles as a SHOOT interview
- published: 20 Nov 2012
- views: 4006
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
84:26
Kevin Smith interviews Tara Strong Fat Man on Batman #004
Fat Man on Batman #4: Tara Strong: Batgirl, Bubbles and Bronies June 24, 2012...
published: 25 Jul 2012
author: INCoGNIT097
Kevin Smith interviews Tara Strong Fat Man on Batman #004
Fat Man on Batman #4: Tara Strong: Batgirl, Bubbles and Bronies June 24, 2012
- published: 25 Jul 2012
- views: 7240
- author: INCoGNIT097
101:33
Kevin Smith on: Clerks 3
really hope this film happens, i LOVED Clerks 1 & 2, and i think that if/ when Clerks 3 co...
published: 10 Dec 2012
author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Kevin Smith on: Clerks 3
really hope this film happens, i LOVED Clerks 1 & 2, and i think that if/ when Clerks 3 comes: Smith will make sure it's the best of them all. which do you think we'll see first: Clerks 3 or Ghostbusters 3?
- published: 10 Dec 2012
- views: 1597
- author: HughezyVSTheWorld
Vimeo results:
6:50
8BITS_hd720
FullHD version with subtitles (EN/FR/ES/JAP) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpkjtWuPs8&...
published: 16 Sep 2010
author: 8BCREW
8BITS_hd720
FullHD version with subtitles (EN/FR/ES/JAP) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpkjtWuPs8&feature;=player_embedded
DIRECTED BY
VALERE AMIRAULT
JEAN DELAUNAY
SARAH LAUFER
BENJAMIN MATTERN
VOICE TALENT DAVID HENRY GERSON
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SOUND DESIGN BY NIKOLA CHAPELLE
AND ALEXANDRE HASLE
SOUND MIX BY NATHAN SENOT, AGM PROD.
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ORIGINAL SCORE BY GREGORY SMITH
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ORIGINAL 8-BIT MUSIC BY YANN VAN DER CRUYSSEN
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CREDITS MUSIC IS "MAGICAL 8-BIT TOUR" by YMCK
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VOICES RECORDING BY SPACEMAN SOUND
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3D DESTRUCTION MADE WITH THE HELP OF FRACTURE
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AND A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO :
Supinfocom Promo 2010, Abel Kohen, Thomas "Krishma" Eid, Matthieu "Bernie" Bernadat, Antoine Delacharlery, Bastien "Blast" Martin, Joan Baz, Chryssanthi Skalioti, Martin Amirault, Damien Ancinelle, Robert Bennett, Dominique Lolhé, Kevin Cordier-Royer, Tucker F. Kapp, Kevin Mannens, Ed Caspersen, Craig Davis, Maxime Hoguet, YMCK & Usagi-Chang Records, Carrefour, David Herbruck, Yann Legay & AGM Productions, Spor & Komor (0327KDG), and of course, our families and friends for their support.
6:34
The Pool - The Full Story
The Pool was more than a BMX comp, it was one of the most extra-ordinary gatherings of the...
published: 20 May 2011
author: Nike Action
The Pool - The Full Story
The Pool was more than a BMX comp, it was one of the most extra-ordinary gatherings of the BMX community this century.
From the draining of a soon to be demolished local authority swimming pool in Dagenham, East London, into a world class park in less than two weeks was a feat in itself, but to see the diversity and level or riding on display at the launch event was truly remarkable.
40 international riders with a brand new team format saw non-comp riders, veterans, street destroyers and park animals all throw down into something far better than we could have dreamt of.
Winning Team:
Dennis Enarson, Chad Kerley, Josh Harrington and Jeremiah Smith
Best Line: (Awarded to Ruben’s team)
Ruben Alcantara, Kevin Kalkoff, Sergio Layos, and Tom Dugan
Best Rider: (Rider’s choice)
Dennis Enarson
Best Trick:
Brian Foster - Gap to curved wallride out of the deep end
The Pool is free to ride until the 12th June 2011
Filmed by Peter Adam and Hadrien Picard.
Edited by Hadrien Picard.
1:01
A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol - HD
PERSOL // www.persol.com // ©MMXII
Shortlist: 2012 CANNES Young Director's Award
Official...
published: 03 Oct 2011
author: Yuki 7
A Year of Sun with Mr. Persol - HD
PERSOL // www.persol.com // ©MMXII
Shortlist: 2012 CANNES Young Director's Award
Official Selection for Best Promotional Film category at OTTAWA 2012
Official Selection for Best Advertising Film category at ANNECY 2012
PRODUCTION: Passion Pictures // www.passion-pictures.com
DIRECTED BY: Kevin Dart // www.kevindart.com // Stéphane Coëdel // www.vimeo.com/steffromuk
PRODUCER: Ryan Goodwin-Smith // http://www.ryan.gs
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Jen Coatsworth
DESIGNERS: Kevin Dart // Chris Turnham // www.christurnham.com
ANIMATORS: Jérémy Pires // www.vimeo.com/jeremypires // Nelson Boles // www.vimeo.com/nelsonboles // Nick Appleton
ANIMATION ASSISTANT: Mariano Melman
COMPOSITING: Stéphane Coëdel // Celine Desrumaux // www.groovythesushi.blogspot.com
EDITING: Stéphane Coëdel
STORY: Kevin Dart // Stéphane Coëdel // Elizabeth Ito // www.kikutowne.com // Chris Mitchell // www.jinzoningen.blogspot.com/
SOUND AND MUSIC: Dave Newby // www.vimeo.com/dnewby
AGENCY: Winkreative, London, UK // www.winkreative.com
CREATIVE DIRETOR: Tyler Brûlé
DESIGN DIRECTOR: Maurus Fraser
ART DIRECTOR: Silke Klinnert
ACCOUNT MANAGER: Ariane Elfen
COPYWRITER: Matthew Temple
PRODUCER: Julie Thyman
2:31
Amon Tobin : Wooden Toy
Wooden Toy, ISAM 2.0
Amon Tobin
http://www.amontobin.com/
Manager: Jeff Waye
Ninja Tune ...
published: 11 Sep 2012
author: Leviathan
Amon Tobin : Wooden Toy
Wooden Toy, ISAM 2.0
Amon Tobin
http://www.amontobin.com/
Manager: Jeff Waye
Ninja Tune http://ninjatune.net/
Experience Design:
Director: Vello Virkhaus http://www.vsquaredlabs.com/
Show Programmer: Peter Sistrom
Leviathan Animation:
Creative Director: Bradon Webb
Producer: Brandy Olsen
3D Animation: David Brodeur, Katrina Nelken
3D Prep: Craig Zacok
Illustrator: Mike Coon
VFX: Tim Sepulveda
Compositing: Chris Beers
Editor: Mike LaHood
Assistant Fabricator: Kevin Primm
Production Assistant:: Rachel Broaddus
Executive Producer: Chad Hutson
Executive Creative Director: Jason White
Chief Scientist: Matt Daly
Wooden Toy set fabrication Art Directed by Redmoon's Co-Artistic Director, Frank Maugeri. Redmoon's team of collaborators includes Kass Copeland, Tom Robinson, Jack McLaughlin, Shawn Stucky and Puppeteer, Kasey Foster http://www.redmoon.org/
Redmoon Shoot:
Director: Matt Daly
Director: Bradon Webb
Producer: Brandy Olsen
VFX Supervisor: Tim Sepulveda
DP: Mike LaHood
Gaffer: Derick Smith
Grip: Emily Hindin
Builder: Jack McLaughlin
Production Assistant: Anirudha Hanamantache
Puppeteer on Act 3: O’Connor Hartnett
“ Hyperspace Steam Dream” Documentary:
Editor: Mike LaHood
Design: Gareth Fewel
DP: Mike LaHood
DP: Aaron Edwards
Special Thanks to Redmoon Theater for their continuous generosity, hospitality and support.
http://www.redmoon.org/
@2012 Produced by Leviathan http://www.lvthn.com/
Youtube results:
171:33
The Joe Rogan Experience #134 - Kevin Smith (Full)
The Joe Rogan Experience #134 Ft. Kevin Smith This episode was originally uploaded into 4 ...
published: 02 Sep 2012
author: ThePodcastPit
The Joe Rogan Experience #134 - Kevin Smith (Full)
The Joe Rogan Experience #134 Ft. Kevin Smith This episode was originally uploaded into 4 parts because of difficulties while they were recording it live. The parts didn't fit together seamlessly, so the next best thing was to put a small break between parts. After hours of finding the right program, converting every part, and editing them together ... It is finally here! The full JRE #134 Ft. Kevin Smith! Enjoy!
- published: 02 Sep 2012
- views: 11574
- author: ThePodcastPit
102:44
Kevin Smith interviews Gerard & Mikey Way (My Chemical Romance)
smodcast.com Dec 4, 2012 - In which our hero has a play date with Gerard and Mikey Way. (I...
published: 14 Dec 2012
author: AnyPodcast
Kevin Smith interviews Gerard & Mikey Way (My Chemical Romance)
smodcast.com Dec 4, 2012 - In which our hero has a play date with Gerard and Mikey Way. (I couldn't upload part 2 to YouTube because of copyrighted music so here's the link below) PART 2 LINK - http Follow Kevin @ twitter.com Follow Gerard @ twitter.com Follow Mikey @ twitter.com My Chemical Romance's Website - mychemicalromance.com My Chemical Romance's YouTube - http My Chemical Romance's Twitter - twitter.com
- published: 14 Dec 2012
- views: 529
- author: AnyPodcast
57:35
Avid® Rough Cut ‒ Kevin Smith at the 2011 NAB Show (Keynote)
Subscribe on iTunes ‒ www.itunes.com Follow Matt on Twitter ‒ twitter.com It's more from K...
published: 21 Aug 2011
author: avid
Avid® Rough Cut ‒ Kevin Smith at the 2011 NAB Show (Keynote)
Subscribe on iTunes ‒ www.itunes.com Follow Matt on Twitter ‒ twitter.com It's more from Kevin Smith with Avid at NAB 2011! The day after his presentation at the Avid Main Stage, Kevin goes into more detail about Red State, takes questions from the audience and gives some great inspirational advice for those aspiring to be creative professionals.
- published: 21 Aug 2011
- views: 4060
- author: avid
58:02
An Evening With Kevin Smith - Star Wars Celebration VI
The first hour with Kevin Smith!!! My battery unfortunately died so I didn't get the whole...
published: 24 Aug 2012
author: Carmen Williams
An Evening With Kevin Smith - Star Wars Celebration VI
The first hour with Kevin Smith!!! My battery unfortunately died so I didn't get the whole interview =/ Enjoy!
- published: 24 Aug 2012
- views: 11457
- author: Carmen Williams
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
27 Dec 2012
Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves ... The Belly for Belligerence? ... The question loomed over beltway intelligentsia like an ephemeral Gordian knot ... We’re All Hawks Now ... While George W ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
photo: AP / Ben Curtis
28 Dec 2012
The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui, a city of some 600,000, Francois Bozize on Thursday pleaded with foreign powers to do what they could. He pointed in particular to France, Central African Republic's former colonial ruler ... 516 Share ... News ... ....(size: 19.5Kb)
photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
29 Dec 2012
Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for burial ... Gatherings of more than five people have been banned in the city centre ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
photo: AP / K.M.Chaudary
27 Dec 2012
Large crowds of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) supporters are gathering to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Ms Bhutto died in a gun and bomb attack during her 2007 election campaign. Hundreds of thousands of people have set up camp near the Bhutto family's ancestral home in Sindh province ... He cannot contest an election until his 25th birthday. Show of strength ... ....(size: 2.4Kb)
BBC News
29 Dec 2012
Stenhousemuir. Reidford, Ross, Iain Thomson, McMillan, McKinlay, Ferguson, Hodge, Smith (Love 71), Craig Anderson, Dickson (Ronald 71), Kean. Subs Not Used. Shaw, Duncan, Lawson. Booked. Iain Thomson, Dickson ... Robinson, McGuffie, Durnan, Higgins, Holt, Orsi (McKenna 35), Mitchell, Young (Johnston 76), Carmichael, Clark (Kevin Smith 77), Reilly ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
The Examiner
29 Dec 2012
What if Steven Spielberg was a more indie level filmmaker, such as how Quentin Tarantino or Kevin Smith had been early in their careers? Would he be able to work his magic on a lower ......(size: 1.0Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
29 Dec 2012
WR Armon Binns (groin), S Chris Clemons (ankle), LB Karlos Dansby (biceps), WR Brian Hartline (back), S Reshad Jones (hip), LB Koa Misi (ankle), CB Sean Smith (knee) ... C Kevin Matthews (ankle), LB Colin McCarthy (concussion), TE Craig Stevens (concussion) ... S Don Carey (knee), WR Calvin Johnson (knee, ankle), RB Kevin Smith (thumb), DE Kyle Vanden Bosch (not injury related) ... DT Justin Smith (elbow, triceps)....(size: 11.7Kb)
The News Tribune
29 Dec 2012
Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz on Friday strongly denied a Sports Illustrated report that claimed tension has developed between him and general manager Martin Mayhew for taking chances on troublesome players this season ... "Bill just gave me that (report), and it couldn't be further from the truth," Schwartz said ... Safety Don Carey (knee), receiver Calvin Johnson (knee and ankle) and running back Kevin Smith (thumb) are probable. ....(size: 2.7Kb)
Sacramento Bee
29 Dec 2012
Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz on Friday strongly denied a Sports Illustrated report that claimed tension has developed between him and general manager Martin Mayhew for taking chances on troublesome players this season ... "Bill just gave me that (report), and it couldn't be further from the truth," Schwartz said ... Safety Don Carey (knee), receiver Calvin Johnson (knee and ankle) and running back Kevin Smith (thumb) are probable....(size: 2.8Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
29 Dec 2012
With just three days to the fiscal cliff, it’s down to the Senate – which has not passed a budget in three years – to find a way out in time for a vote on New Year’s Eve ... 2012 enters the record books. Were you paying attention? A news quiz ... “We have said we will take up whatever they produce and either vote to accept it or vote to amend it and send it back to the Senate,” said Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith, in an e-mail on Saturday ... ....(size: 6.5Kb)
Zap2it
28 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith wants to strike back in the best way he knows how ... With the 20th anniversary of "Clerks" coming up in 2014, Smith says he is trying to get leading man Jeff Anderson on board and get filming underway. Smith initially revealed the news on Twitter, tweeting, "So with the HIT ......(size: 1.4Kb)
IMDb
28 Dec 2012
Kevin Smith, Stan Lee and Superior Spider-Man artist Ryan Stegman have discussed the controversial death of Peter Parker. Smith reassured fans during an interview on Fox La ... In comic books, there are no finites ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
Sun Sentinel
28 Dec 2012
With fellow running back Michael Bush (ribs) already on injured reserve, Bears head coach Lovie Smith is in a pickle with no healthy backfield. If for some reason Forte doesn't shake the problem by Sunday, Smith will have to go with Kahlil Bell and Armando Allen against Detroit ... "Depth at running back is a concern," Smith said ... Kevin Smith had 976 rushing yards in 2008....(size: 7.0Kb)
Business Insider
28 Dec 2012
Business Insider
28 Dec 2012
Business Insider
28 Dec 2012
Meet Grokr, The First iPhone App You'll Want To Use Every Day. The First 12 Apps You Should Download For Your New Android Phone. Oh Geez, Now There's An Android Phone That's Almost As Big As Your Kindle Fire ... Ford writes. ... View As One Page. Please follow SAI ... Follow Kevin Smith on Twitter ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
Atlanta Journal
28 Dec 2012
The pain had a precise beginning for the family of Joseph Griffin ... At the time of the murder, Kevin Smith, who worked on his team in Afghanistan, was also inside the compound. “I was in a meeting when they called me on my cell and told me something had happened,” Smith said ... Smith said the two men became close in the 17 months they worked there ... Smith, 46, will speak at memorial services for Griffin today in Afghanistan....(size: 5.6Kb)
For other people named Kevin Smith, see Kevin Smith (disambiguation).
| Kevin Smith | |
|---|---|
 Smith promoting Red State at Midtown Comics Grand Central in Manhattan, March 4, 2011. |
|
| Born | Kevin Patrick Smith (1970-08-02) August 2, 1970 (age 41) Red Bank, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director, screenwriter, producer, actor, comedian, author, podcaster |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Spouse | Jennifer Schwalbach Smith (1999–present) |
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob. Although primarily known for the View Askew film series, Smith also wrote, directed and produced films such as the buddy cop action comedy Cop Out, as well as the horror film Red State. His first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon in what is known by fans as the "View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.
Smith is also the owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic book and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey. He co-hosts several weekly podcasts that are recorded at various locations around the world and released on SModcast Internet Radio. Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith.[1]
Contents |
Early life[link]
Kevin Smith was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, the son of Grace (née Schultz), a homemaker, and Donald E. Smith (1936–2003), a postal worker.[2][3][4] He has an older sister, Virginia, and an older brother, Donald Smith, Jr. He was raised in a Catholic household,[5][6] and attended Henry Hudson Regional High School in Highlands.[7][8]
Career[link]
As a filmmaker[link]
In an interview with Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life, Smith attributes the film Slacker as his main inspiration to becoming a director.
It was the movie that got me off my ass; it was the movie that lit a fire under me, the movie that made me think, “Hey, I could be a filmmaker.” And I had never seen a movie like that before ever in my life.[9]
His first film, Clerks, was shot for the sum total of $27,575 in the convenience store where Smith worked. It went to the Sundance Film Festival in 1994, where it won the Filmmaker's Trophy and was picked up by Miramax before the festival's end. In May 1994, it went to the Cannes International Film Festival where it won both the Prix de la Jeunesse and the International Critics' Week Prize. Released in October 1994 in two cities, the film went on to play in 50 markets, never playing on more than fifty screens at any given time. Despite the limited release, it was a critical and financial success, earning $3.1 million.[10] Initially, the film received an NC-17 rating from the MPAA, solely for the graphic language. Miramax hired Alan Dershowitz to defend the film, and at an appeals screening, a jury consisting of members of the National Association of Theater Owners reversed the MPAA's decision, and the film was given an R rating instead.
Smith's second film, Mallrats, did not fare as well as expected after the remarkable success of Clerks. It received a critical drubbing and earned merely $2.2 million at the box office, despite playing on more than 500 screens. The film marked Jason Lee's debut as a leading man. Despite failing at the box office during its theatrical run, Mallrats proved more successful in the home video market.
Widely hailed as Smith's best film, Chasing Amy marked what Quentin Tarantino called "a quantum leap forward" for Smith. Starring Mallrats alumni Jason Lee, Joey Lauren Adams and Ben Affleck, the $250,000 film earned $12 million at the box office and wound up on a number of critics' year-end best lists, and won two Independent Spirit Awards (screenplay and supporting actor for Lee).
In 1996, Smith worked on a script for a Superman movie. He did a couple of drafts but his script was dropped when Tim Burton was hired to direct. Burton brought his own people to work on the project. Smith still sees the whole experience on working on the Superman project as a positive one however; he has said that he was well paid and it was a lot of fun. (In April, 2009, Smith discussed his Superman experiences at Clark University—a YouTube video critic A.O. Scott of the New York Times called "extraordinary."[11]) In the end, neither Smith's nor Burton's vision for Superman was filmed. In the 2007 Direct-to-DVD animation release of Superman: Doomsday, Smith has a cameo as an onlooker in a crowd. After Superman defeats The Toyman's giant mechanical robot, Smith scoffs, "Yeah, like we really needed him to defeat that giant spider. Heh. Lame!" This was a reference to a giant spider that producer Jon Peters wanted Smith to put in the Superman movie when he was attached, that was later put into the 1999 feature film flop Wild Wild West, which Peters also produced.
In 1997, Smith was hired by New Line to rewrite Overnight Delivery, which was expected to be a blockbuster teen movie. Smith's then-girlfriend Joey Lauren Adams almost took the role of Ivy in the movie, instead of the female lead in Chasing Amy. Eventually she lost out to Reese Witherspoon, and Overnight Delivery was quietly released directly to video in April 1998. Kevin Smith's involvement with the film was revealed on-line,[12] but he remains uncredited. He has said that the only scene which really used his dialogue was the opening scene, which includes a reference to long-time Smith friend Bryan Johnson.[12]
Smith's fourth film, Dogma, featured an all-star cast and found itself mired in controversy. The religious-themed 1999 comedy, which starred a post-Good Will Hunting Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, as well as Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, George Carlin, Alan Rickman, Linda Fiorentino, and Smith regulars Jason Lee and Jason Mewes, raised criticism by the Catholic League.[13][14][15]
The film debuted at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, out of competition. Released on 800 screens in November 1999, the $10 million film earned $30 million.
Smith then focused the spotlight on two characters who had appeared in supporting roles in his previous four films, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back featured an all-star cast, with many familiar faces returning from Smith's first four films. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon appear as themselves filming a mock sequel to Good Will Hunting. The $20 million film earned $30 million at the box office and received mixed reviews from the critics.
In 2004, Smith wrote a screenplay for a new film version of The Green Hornet, and announced prematurely that he had originally intended to direct as well.[16] The project, however died after the film was placed into turn around following the poor box office of Jersey Girl. Smith's screenplay was turned into a Green Hornet comic book miniseries.[17]
Jersey Girl with Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, George Carlin and Raquel Castro, his first outside of the View Askewniverse, was meant to mark a new direction in Smith's career. However, the film took a critical beating as it was seen as, in Smith's own words, "Gigli 2", due to the fact that it co-starred Affleck and his then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez. Despite Smith heavily re-editing the film to reduce Lopez's role to just a few scenes, the film did poorly at the box office. Budgeted at $35 million, it earned only $36 million.
In the 2006 sequel, Clerks II, Smith revisited the Dante and Randal characters from his first film for what was his final visit to the View Askewniverse. Roundly criticized before its release, the film went on to win favorable reviews as well as two awards (the Audience Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Orbit Dirtiest Mouth Award at the MTV Movie Awards).[18] It marked Smith's third trip to the Cannes International Film Festival, where Clerks II received an eight minute standing ovation.[19] The $5 million film, starring Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Jennifer Schwalbach and Smith himself – reprising his role as Silent Bob – earned $25 million.
That same year, Smith was featured in This Film Is Not Yet Rated, a 2006 documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America process of rating films. Smith's interview was in reference to Jersey Girl receiving an R rating,[20] and Clerks originally receiving an NC-17 rating.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno was originally announced in March 2006 as Smith's second non-Askewniverse comedy.[21] The film, which began shooting on January 18, 2008 in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and wrapped on March 15, 2008, stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks as the title characters who decide to make a low-budget pornographic film to solve their money problems. The film, which was released on October 31, 2008, ran into many conflicts getting an "R" rating, with Rogen stating:
| “ | It's a really filthy movie. I hear they are having some problems getting an R rating from an NC-17 rating, which is never good... They [fight against] sex stuff. Isn't that weird? It's really crazy to me that Hostel is fine, with people gouging their eyes out and shit like that, but you can't show two people having sex – that's too much.[22] | ” |
Smith took the film through the MPAA's appeals process and received the R rating, without having to make any further edits.[23] Zack and Miri Make a Porno was considered a box office "flop"[24][25] in part because of "tepid media advertising for a movie with the title PORNO",[24] and, in the aftermath of the film's "flaccid" performance, the business relationship between Smith and producer Harvey Weinstein became "frayed".[26]
It was announced in 2009 that Smith had signed on to direct a buddy-cop comedy starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan called A Couple of Dicks and written by the Cullen Brothers.[27] Due to controversy surrounding the original title, it was changed to A Couple of Cops,[28] before reverting back its original title, A Couple of Dicks, due to negative reaction,[29] before finally settling on the title Cop Out.[30] The film, which was shot between June and August 2009, involved a pair of veteran cops tracking down a stolen vintage baseball card,[31] and was released on February 26, 2010 to poor reviews; it was the first film that Smith has directed but not written. With a worldwide domestic gross of $55,583,804, Cop Out is Smith's highest grossing film to date.[32]
In September 2010, Smith started work on Red State, an independently-financed horror film inspired by the Westboro Baptist Church and their Pastor Fred Phelps.[33][34][35] In February 2010, he talked about his project with Cinssu,[36][37] Film producers and moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein who had thus far been involved in the distribution of most of Smith's films, with the exception of Mallrats and Cop Out, declined to support Red State.[38][39][40][41][42] The film stars Michael Parks, John Goodman, Melissa Leo and Stephen Root. Smith had indicated that he would auction off rights to the $4 million film at a controversial event following the debut screening of the film at Sundance but instead, kept the rights to the film himself with plans to self-distribute the picture "under the SModcast Pictures" banner. The film was released via Video on Demand on September 1, 2011 through Lionsgate, will be released in select theaters again for a special one-night only engagement on September 25, 2011 (via SModcast Pictures), and was released on home video October 18, 2011.[43][44] Kevin Smith listed Mel Gibson as a role-model he looked up to, and his inspiration, for how he planned to distribute this movie, citing Gibson's The Passion of the Christ as an example of a successfully self-distributed movie.[45] He further explained his decision as a way to return to an era when marketing a film did not cost four times as much as the film itself, a situation he has described as "both decadent and deadening".[46] The film was released in January 2011. The premiere drew protests from a half-dozen members of the church, along with many more who counter-protested Westboro members.[47]
Smith will direct a hockey drama-comedy based on the song "Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song)" by Warren Zevon. The song, which is about a hockey player famous for fighting in the rink, was co-written by Tuesdays With Morrie author Mitch Albom, who is working with Smith on the film.[48]
Although Smith had previously mentioned other projects he had planned,[49][50][51] he announced at the Sundance premiere of Red State that Hit Somebody will be the last movie he ever directs, and that he will continue to tell stories in other media.[52][53] In August Hit Somebody was announced as a two part film titled Hit Somebody: Home and Hit Somebody: Away with part one being PG-13 and part 2 being Rated R,[54] but later decided to make it one movie and hopes to premiere it at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.[55]
Smith further explained his retirement from directing, citing distribution politics, and the manner in which making films like Zack and Miri "adulterated" his own identity as a filmmaker, saying, "I don’t have the same passion for it I used to. I don’t have any stories left to tell." Smith further emphasized that he sees himself as a writer rather than a director, and that Harvey Weinstein developed his career as a celebrity auteur because "my films were never strong enough to stand up on their own."[46]
Comics and magazines[link]
Smith has been a regular contributor to Arena magazine. In 2005, Miramax Books released Smith's first book, Silent Bob Speaks, a collection of previously published essays (most from Arena) dissecting pop culture, the movie business, and Smith's personal life. His second book, My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith, published by Titan Books, was another collection of previously published essays (this time blogs from Smith's website www.silentbobspeaks.com) and reached No. 32 on the New York Times Best Sellers List.[56] Titan released Smith's third book Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith: The Best of the SModcast on September 29, 2009.[57]
A life-long comic book fan, Smith's early forays into comic books dealt with previously established View Askew characters, and were published by Oni Press. He wrote a short Jay and Silent Bob story about Walt Flanagan's dog in Oni Double Feature No. 1, and followed it with a Bluntman and Chronic story in Oni Double Feature #12. He followed these with a series of Clerks comics. The first was simply Clerks: The Comic Book, which told of Randal's attempts to corner the market on Star Wars toys. The second was Clerks: Holiday Special, where Dante and Randal discover that Santa Claus lives in an apartment between the Quick Stop and RST Video. Third was Clerks: The Lost Scene, showing what happened inside Poston's Funeral Parlor. This story was later animated in the TV series style and included as an extra on the 10th Anniversary Clerks DVD.
Smith then wrote the mini-series Chasing Dogma, which tells the story of Jay and Silent Bob between the films Chasing Amy and Dogma. He has also written the trade paperback Bluntman and Chronic, published by Image, which purports to be a collection of the three issues of the series done by Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards (of Chasing Amy). It includes a color reprinting of the story from Oni Double Feature No. 12, purported to be an early appearance by Chasing Amy characters Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards. These stories have all been collected in Tales From the Clerks (Graphitti Designs, ISBN 0-936211-78-4), which also includes a new "Clerks" story tying in to the Clerks 2 material, and the story from Oni Double Feature #1. They were previously collected by Image Comics in three separate volumes, one each for Clerks, Chasing Dogma and Bluntman and Chronic. In 1999, Smith won a Harvey Award, for Best New Talent in comic books.[58]
In 1999, Smith wrote "Guardian Devil", an eight-issue story arc of Daredevil for Marvel Comics, which was illustrated by Joe Quesada. Kevin Smith followed this by producing a 15-issue tenure on Green Arrow for DC Comics that saw the return of Oliver Queen from the dead and the introduction of Mia Dearden, a teenage girl who would become Speedy after Smith's run had ended.
Smith returned to Marvel for two mini-series: Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do and Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target, both of which debuted in 2002. The former was six issues long, but after the third issue was published two months after the initially scheduled release date, the final issues were delayed for at least three years, prompting Marvel to release an "in case you missed it" reprinting of the first three issues as one book prior to the remaining issues' release. The delay in part was due to Smith's movie production schedule (in this case, work on Jersey Girl and Clerks II) causing him to shelve completion of the mini-series until the films were completed. He was announced as the writer of an ongoing Black Cat series[59] and The Amazing Spider-Man[60][61] in early to mid-2002. However, because of the delays on Evil That Men Do and The Target, the plan was switched so that Smith would start a third Spider-Man title,[62] launched in 2004 by Mark Millar instead. While Spider-Man/Black Cat was ultimately completed in 2005, Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target remains unfinished, with one issue published.
Smith wrote the limited series Batman: Cacophony, with art by friend Walt Flanagan, which ran from November 2008 to January 2009. As announced at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, the series featured the villains Onomatopoeia (a character created by Smith during his run at Green Arrow), The Joker, Maxie Zeus, and Victor Zsasz.[63] The trade paperback of Batman: Cacophony became a New York Times Bestseller in their Hardcover Graphic Books section.[64]
In 2010 Smith subsequently wrote a six-issue Batman mini-series called The Widening Gyre for DC, and a Green Hornet story for Dynamite Entertainment, the latter of which was based on an unused script he wrote for a Green Hornet film project that never came to fruition.[17][65]
In August 2011, Dynamite Entertainment debuted The Bionic Man by Smith, which was based on a 1998 script he wrote that was rejected by Universal as being "more like a comic book than a movie."[66]
Television[link]
In 2000, Smith and Mosier teamed up with television writer David Mandel to develop an animated television show based on Clerks. called Clerks: The Animated Series that aired on ABC in May 2000. It aired only two episodes before being canceled as a result of poor ratings. The six produced episodes were released on DVD in 2001.
During the mid-1990s Smith directed and starred in a series of commercials for MTV, alongside Jason Mewes, in which they reprised their roles as Jay & Silent Bob. In 1998 he directed best friend Jason Mewes as "Gary Lamb – Ground Activist" in a series of Nike commercials. That same year, he also shot commercials for Diet Coke. Two years later, he directed "Star Wars" toy commercials for Hasbro. He has also directed[67] and starred[68] in commercials for Panasonic. In 2004 he also shot a public service announcement for the Declare Yourself organization.[69] These advertisements brought Jay and Silent Bob out of their "semi-retirement."
On February 27, 2002 Kevin released a short film for The Tonight Show called "The Flying Car".
Kevin appears in and produces the unscripted series Comic Book Men which is set inside Smith's comic book shop Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey. The first season ran for six one-hour episodes,[70] the premiere of which aired on February 12, 2012, following the return of The Walking Dead's second season on AMC.[71] On May 9, AMC announced that Comic Book Men was renewed for a second season of 16 half-hour episodes.[72]
Acting roles and other appearances[link]
As an actor, Smith is known for his role as Silent Bob in Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II. He made a cameo appearance in the horror film Scream 3, and was featured along with Jason Mewes in several Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes, including a special, "Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi" (also as a fictional version of himself).
Smith also appeared in an mtvU show titled Sucks Less With Kevin Smith. The show gives college students ideas for things to do on the weekends. Smith also played the role of Paul, a cynical divorced man, in a Showtime television series pilot, "Manchild", filmed in December 2006. However, it was not picked up by the network.[73]
From 1995 to 1997, Smith played small roles in the View Askew movies Drawing Flies, Vulgar, and Big Helium Dog.
In 2001, he appeared in friend Jeff Anderson's Now You Know. After an August 2001 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Smith returned to the show for monthly segments as a correspondent. The "Roadside Attractions" segments featured Smith traveling to random locations around the country and showcased places like Howe Caverns in upstate New York and the Fish Market in Seattle. While five of these segments were included on the Jersey Girl DVD, at least twelve were aired on the actual show. Smith regularly appeared on the program to introduce the pre-taped pieces.
In 2003, Smith appeared in a cameo role as coroner Jack Kirby in the film Daredevil. In 2006, he voiced the Moose in the CGI cartoon Doogal.
In early 2005, Smith appeared in three episodes of the Canadian-made teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation. In the episodes, Smith, portraying a fictionalized version of himself, visited the school to work on the (fictional) film Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh! Smith wrote all his dialogue for the shows he appeared in. All three episodes were collected on a DVD entitled Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi. Smith and Mewes also appeared in two more episodes the following season, when they returned to Degrassi for the Toronto premiere of the fictional Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh! movie.
From July 2006 on, Smith has guest reviewed on Ebert & Roeper, in place of Roger Ebert, who was recovering from thyroid cancer treatment. These spots have been notable for the arguments between Smith and Richard Roeper over certain films, with Smith often citing Roeper's poor review of Jersey Girl to discredit his review of the film at hand. On his most recent appearance, Smith compared Craig Brewer's Black Snake Moan to the works of William Faulkner.
In addition to appearing on Degrassi: The Next Generation, Smith is an avid fan of the original Degrassi series, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High and references to the original are present in some of his early films. He also appeared in the 2009 made for TV movie Degrassi Goes Hollywood.
Smith directed the pilot for The CW Television Network show Reaper. TV.com's summary of the show is "A twenty-something slacker finally scores a job as the devil's bounty hunter." He describes it as "less Brimstone or Dead Like Me and more like Shaun of the Dead than anything else". He went on to say that the reason he took the job was that he has always wanted to direct something he did not write, but never had an interest in doing it on the big screen.
At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Smith would write and direct an episode of the Heroes spin-off, Heroes: Origins,[74] but the project was canceled because of the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike. That year, Smith appeared in a number of films. He co-starred as Sam in the film Catch and Release, starring Jennifer Garner.[75] Later that year, he appeared as a hacker called The Warlock in the fourth installment of the Die Hard franchise, Live Free or Die Hard.[76] At year's end, he appeared briefly in friend and fellow writer-director Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, in which he played the legless conspiracy theorist General Simon Theory. That same year, Smith also did voicework for the CGI film TMNT as a diner chef. He was also seen as Rusty (a friend of lead Jason Mewes) in Bottoms Up with co-star Paris Hilton.
Smith has also cameoed in the second season premiere of the sitcom Joey, where he played himself, on an episode of Law & Order in 2000 (episode "Black, White and Blue"), Duck Dodgers (2003 as Hal Jordan, voice only) and Yes, Dear (2004, as himself and Silent Bob). Smith appeared in the second episode of season two of Veronica Mars, playing a store clerk. He stated on his Web site that Veronica Mars is some of the best television work ever produced.[77] Additionally, he appeared as Silent Bob in an episode of Yes, Dear, standing while smoking a cigarette as the end credits rolled.
Smith has appeared in five Q&A documentaries: An Evening with Kevin Smith, An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder and Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith. The fourth installment, Kevin Smith: Too Fat for 40 was broadcast on epix on October 23, 2010. The fifth Q&A, Kevin Smith: Burn in Hell also broadcast on Epix beginning February 11, 2012. The first is a collection of filmed appearances at American colleges, while the sequel was shot at two Q&A shows held in Toronto and London. The third and fourth were filmed in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count Basie Theater on Smith's 37th and 40th birthdays, respectively. The fifth was filmed in Austin, Texas at the Paramount Theater. The first two DVD sets were released by Sony Home Video, while the third was put out by the Weinstein Company. Smith appears with Marvel Comics guru Stan Lee in Marvel Then & Now: An Evening With Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, hosted by Kevin Smith. The film is similar in tone to the Evening with Kevin Smith series. Proceeds from the sale of the film benefit The Hero Initiative, a charitable organization that aids ill or aging comic book creators.[78]
Public appearances[link]
Smith's longest Q&A session took place April 2, 2005, at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey.[79] The sold-out event was over seven hours long, took place from 8 pm through 3 am (which due to daylight saving time, was actually 4 am). Following the Q&A, he opened Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash for a meet-and-greet with the numerous remaining audience members, which ended around 6:30 am. Smith then hopped a plane and did another Q&A at the Raue Center For The Arts in Crystal Lake, Illinois, that night. Planned for two hours, it lasted just over five hours, ending a little after 1 am Central time.[80]
In 2009 Smith made a sold out appearance at Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House in 2010.[81][82]
On the Internet[link]
On February 5, 2007, Smith and Scott Mosier began SModcast, a regular comedy podcast. SModcast has since spawned into a podcast network called the SModcast podcast network which began in 2010, it's own digital radio station called SModcast Internet Radio (S.I.R) in 2011 and an internet television channel SModCo Internet Television (S.I.T.) in 2012
Smith has a website, The View Askewniverse, which opened in late 1995. He also has an online blog, "My Boring-Ass Life", the contents of which were published in a book by the same name. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back's fictional website MoviePoopShoot.com became real in 2002. It became Quick Stop Entertainment and was the home of SModcast until it was sold and SModcast moved to a dedicated website SModcast.com, which also carries the other SModcast network podcasts in early 2010.
Secret Stash[link]
Smith owns and operates Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey, a comic book store largely dedicated to merchandise related to his films and comics. The current location is its second. The store was moved to a defunct ice cream parlor on Broad St. after Smith sold the Monmouth St. property. The New Jersey location is managed by Smith's long time friend Walt Flanagan, who appears frequently in Smith's films. A second Secret Stash in the Westwood section of Los Angeles was opened in September 2004 and was managed by long-time associate Bryan Johnson, who has appeared in Smith's films as Steve-Dave.[83] Smith had announced that he would close after his lease expired and Johnson wanted to resign, but eventually relocated to Laser Blazer, a DVD store in Los Angeles.[84] In January 2009 the West Coast Store closed, leaving the east coast store as Smith's only operating store.
Controversies[link]
2010 Southwest Airlines incident[link]
On February 13, 2010, Kevin Smith was on board a Southwest Airlines flight in Oakland bound for Burbank when he was removed from the plane, allegedly over concerns he was too obese to fly safely.[85] Per Smith, he was able to put both armrests down in accordance with Southwest Airlines policy, and both passengers on either side did not object to his presence. Smith was then removed from the flight after being told he was a safety concern. After being booked on a later flight and being offered a $100 Southwest Airlines voucher, which he turned down, Smith lashed out at Southwest Airlines on his Twitter account.
Southwest Airlines representatives later released two statements regarding the incident via their blog.[86] In the first statement, Southwest claimed that Mr. Smith "has been known to (...) purchase two Southwest seats" and cited its "Customer of Size" policy which requires that customers who cannot put their armrests down purchase two seats. In his podcast, Smith stated that he regularly purchased two seats, and had done so the previous week, because he preferred not having to sit next to anyone, not due to his size. In releasing this statement, Southwest disclosed Smith's personal travel details without his permission. The first statement also claimed that the flight captain has personally determined that Smith was too large to fly. In its second statement, Southwest contradicted this claim, stating that the captain had not singled out Smith.[87]
Smith later released an entire episode of SModcast devoted to the subject, giving a lengthy description of the incident, in which he claimed that he had been able to lower the armrests completely and comfortably and claimed to have been repeatedly lied to by airline personnel. He also referred to the airline as the "Greyhound of the Air" and vowed to never fly the airline again.[88]
In his podcast, Smith stated that on his return flight a large female passenger was told to ask him if it was all right that she was sitting next to an empty seat he had bought between them, and it was suggested by Southwest staffers that she may need to purchase an additional seat due to her size, even though she had been placed next to an already-purchased empty seat. She was also the subject of an episode of SModcast.[89]
Smith also released 24 video statements on YouTube further describing the incident.[90] A year after the incident, the media reported that he had lost 65 pounds through controlled diet and regular exercise, including walking up and down a hill near his home in the Hollywood Hills,[52] but Smith refuted this notion, saying that he had simply put on more weight and then lost it.[91]
[edit] Cop Out controversy
A talent rep associated with the production of Cop Out reported conflicts on set between Smith and Bruce Willis, saying of Smith, "He smokes way too much pot. He sat behind his monitor. He didn't interact with the actors. The actors felt they were on their own."[92] Smith defended his use of marijuana while working, claiming "I dealt with every actor who wanted to be dealt with on that set" and pointed to the amount of projects he worked on while making Cop Out to counter claims he was unproductive because of marijuana.[93] Smith admitted in an interview that heavy marijuana-smoking had become an integral part of his work ethic after claiming that he watched actor Seth Rogen on the set of Zack and Miri Make a Porno use marijuana as a tool to become a more creative and "productive" worker, saying "The moment I start smoking, I start working. ... That way, no one could ever take it away from you."[94]
| “ | Kevin Smith thinks critics should have had to pay to see "Cop Out." But Kev, then they would REALLY have hated it. | ” |
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In response to the critical drubbing his 2010 film Cop Out received, Kevin Smith lashed out at the community of film critics on his Twitter account saying, "Writing a nasty review for Cop Out is akin to bullying a retarded kid. All you’ve done is make fun of something that wasn't doing you any harm and wanted only to give some cats some fun laughs."[96][97] Smith also implied on Twitter that he may charge critics for advance screenings of his films, a service which has typically been provided free; this subsequently ignited a strong response from some critics condemning his stance as "dishonest" and "disingenuous".[96]
Personal life[link]
Smith is married to Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, and photographed her for the magazine Playboy. Their daughter, Harley Quinn, was born June 26, 1999, and was named after the character from Batman: The Animated Series, who was created by friend and fellow writer Paul Dini.[98] They live in the Hollywood Hills,[52] in a house Smith purchased from longtime friend Ben Affleck in 2003.[99]
Although Smith was raised Catholic, he has said on "Back to the Well", the Clerks II documentary, that now he only goes to Mass on the day before he starts production of a movie, and the day before it premieres. He never smoked until his debut film, Clerks, in which he used the cigarettes as a prop, but never actually inhaled. In fact, he has said that prior to filming Clerks, he was a staunch non-smoker.[100] He quit smoking cigarettes in 2008 after taking up smoking cannabis. Smith only began smoking pot at age 38 after working with Seth Rogen on Zack and Miri Make a Porno.[101]
Kevin Smith is a hockey fan and loyal New Jersey Devils fan. Smith has also expressed an admiration for his second-favorite team, the Edmonton Oilers.[102]
Filmography[link]
Main article: Kevin Smith filmography
Recognition[link]
Main article: List of recognition for Kevin Smith
Bibliography[link]
Books[link]
Books by Smith include:
- Silent Bob Speaks (2005)
- My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith (2007)
- Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith (2009)
- Tough Shit: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good (2012)
Comics[link]
- Daredevil: Guardian Devil (with Joe Quesada, Marvel Comics, 1998–1999)
- Green Arrow: Quiver (with Phil Hester, DC Comics, 2001–2002)
- Green Arrow: Sounds of Violence (with Phil Hester, DC Comics, 2002)
- Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil that Men Do (with Terry Dodson, Marvel Comics, 2002, 2005–2006)
- Batman: Cacophony (with Walt Flanagan, DC Comics, 2008–2009)
- Batman: The Widening Gyre (with Walt Flanagan, DC Comics, 2009–2012)
- Green Hornet (with Jonathan Lau, Dynamite Entertainment, 2010)
- The Bionic Man (with Jonathan Lau, Phil Hester, Dynamite Entertainment, 2011–2012)
Trade paperback introductions:
- Hitman: 10,000 Bullets (by Garth Ennis, DC Comics, 1996)
- Preacher: Until the End of the World (by Garth Ennis, Vertigo Comics, 1995)
References[link]
- ^ Kevin Smith at The New York Times, Retrieved March 30, 2011.
- ^ Condran, Kevin. A Skewed View. Jersey Pride.com. 2004.
- ^ Film Reference.com.
- ^ Smith, Kevin. Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good. 2012. Gotham. Page 3. Google Books.
- ^ As stated in an interview in Clerks 10th Anniversary DVD.
- ^ Jeffrey Overstreet. "A Warm & Fuzzy Kevin Smith?". Christianity Today. Archived from the original on April 13, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070413062748/http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/interviews/kevinsmith.html. Retrieved April 30, 2007.
- ^ Cahillane, Kevin. "For the Stars of 'Clerks,' It's Take Two". The New York Times, July 16, 2006. Retrieved October 25, 2007. "Mr. Anderson's film career was a happy accident. While he and Mr. Smith graduated together in 1988 from Henry Hudson Regional High School in Highlands, they were not close until Mr. Anderson began to rent movies from the video store where Mr. Smith worked."
- ^ Kevin Smith biography, TV.com, accessed February 4, 2007.
- ^ Smith, Kevin. Interview by Robert K. Elder. The Film That Changed My Life. By Robert K. Elder. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011. N. p236. Print.
- ^ Books.google.com
- ^ A.O. Scott, "Kevin Smith's 'Red State,'" The New York Times, September 23, 2011.
- ^ a b "The Unholy Tale of Greasy Reese Witherspoon". "Developing the Monkey" [originally] on Psycomic.com. ViewAskew.com. December 1, 2000. http://www.viewaskew.com/press/psycomic/5.html. Retrieved June 13, 2008.
- ^ Givens, Ron. "Some Controversy Projected For Ny Film Fest 25-movie Bill Includes Kevin Smith's Religious Comedy 'Dogma'". Daily News. August 17, 1999
- ^ "Kevin Smith on New Jersey, fatherhood and Dogma". CNN. November 12, 1999
- ^ "Dogma screening brings Catholic protests". The Guardian. October 5, 1999
- ^ 'Hornet' buzzes Smith News Askew. Retrieved November 29, 2008.
- ^ a b "EW Exclusive: Kevin Smith takes on Batman and the Green Hornet". Entertainment Weekly. May 13, 2009. http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/05/kevin-smith-com.html. Retrieved July 27, 2009.
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Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob. Although primarily known for the View Askew film series, Smith also wrote, directed and produced films such as the buddy cop action comedy Cop Out, as well as the horror film Red State. His first several films were mostly set in his home state of New Jersey, and while not strictly sequential, they frequently feature crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon in what is known by fans as the "View Askewniverse", named after his production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier.
Smith is also the owner of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic book and novelty store in Red Bank, New Jersey. He co-hosts several weekly podcasts that are recorded at various locations around the world and released on SModcast Internet Radio. Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for DVD release, beginning with An Evening with Kevin Smith.
