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April 18, 2013 | By Nardine Saad, This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.
Jaden Smith thinks that "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star Kylie Jenner is "pretty awesome. " Well, what else would a 14-year-old boy think? Wait. Don't answer that. The son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and the daughter of Kardashian momager Kris Jenner and Bruce Jenner have been linked since early last month. They were spotted having lunch at Café Nero in London and having a chaperoned sushi dinner at Nobu with Big Will. Both incidents were documented by papz and have led to dating rumors.
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April 18, 2013 | By Nardine Saad, This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.
Jaden Smith thinks that "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star Kylie Jenner is "pretty awesome. " Well, what else would a 14-year-old boy think? Wait. Don't answer that. The son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and the daughter of Kardashian momager Kris Jenner and Bruce Jenner have been linked since early last month. They were spotted having lunch at Café Nero in London and having a chaperoned sushi dinner at Nobu with Big Will. Both incidents were documented by papz and have led to dating rumors.
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May 2, 2010 | By Susan King, Los Angeles Times
Though he's not yet even a teenager, Jaden Smith appears as dedicated to his craft as a seasoned pro, putting in the hard hours to make his characters believable. For his starring role as Dre in the loose remake of "The Karate Kid," opening June 11, the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith spent three months training in the martial arts in Los Angeles and then worked at it an additional four months in Beijing, where the film was shot last year. "Now, I'm doing it again," says the poised Jaden, 11, who appeared opposite his father in 2006's "The Pursuit of Happyness" as well as 2008's " The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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February 27, 2013 | By Daniel Miller
Ken Stovitz is returning to the agency business after six years as a producer. Stovitz, who formerly was a longtime agent at Creative Artists Agency until leaving to become a partner at Will Smith's production company, has joined Paradigm as a senior agent. At the Beverly Hills based agency, Stovitz will serve on Paradigm's five-person management committee, which oversees day-to-day operations. Chief Executive Sam Gores also sits on the committee. During his tenure at Smith's Overbrook Entertainment, the company produced such movies as "Hancock" and "Seven Pounds," as well as "The Karate Kid," which starred Jaden Smith, the son of Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
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May 21, 2012 | By Amy Hubbard
Will Smith, as seen in a video at the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III,"  dealt a shove, an annoyed expression and a backhand slap to a Ukrainian reporter who seemed intent on enveloping the actor in his arms.  Three steps farther along the red carpet, as the TMZ video shows, Smith's sunny smile was back on his face. He seemed to be making an effort to shake off the heebie jeebies from the extremely affectionate reporter.  The reporter, Vitalii Sediuk, may have a weakness for celebrities.
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February 27, 2013 | By Daniel Miller
Ken Stovitz is returning to the agency business after six years as a producer. Stovitz, who formerly was a longtime agent at Creative Artists Agency until leaving to become a partner at Will Smith's production company, has joined Paradigm as a senior agent. At the Beverly Hills based agency, Stovitz will serve on Paradigm's five-person management committee, which oversees day-to-day operations. Chief Executive Sam Gores also sits on the committee. During his tenure at Smith's Overbrook Entertainment, the company produced such movies as "Hancock" and "Seven Pounds," as well as "The Karate Kid," which starred Jaden Smith, the son of Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
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July 14, 2009 | Associated Press
Jackie Chan will play the wise kung-fu master in a Hollywood-Chinese remake of the 1984 hit "The Karate Kid," a movie company publicist said Monday. Chan's young disciple in "Kung Fu Kid" will be played by Jaden Smith, the son of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, China Film Group spokesman Weng Li said. Will Smith is one of the movie's producers. In "The Karate Kid," Pat Morita plays the iconic building handyman Mr. Miyagi, who trains one of his young tenants, portrayed by Ralph Macchio, into an accomplished fighter.
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May 25, 2012 | By Amy Hubbard
Will Smith, star of "Men in Black 3," which opens wide today, can rap even better than he can slap. His recent backhanded smack of a reporter -- a TV personality who tries to out-Borat Borat --  was a sight to behold, but Smith's PR folks would rather put that all behind him. Ix-nay on the ap-slay, a publicist told reporters at the New York premiere of the film Wednesday, according to EW.com. Smith has been focusing on the rapping, not the slapping. He's now rapped at at least two premieres of his new movie.
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March 20, 2011
SUNDAY While you're sitting there in your pajamas, sipping your morning coffee and reading this, hundreds of your fellow citizens are running from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica in the "L.A. Marathon. " The least you can do is tune in and cheer them on. (KTLA, 7 a.m.) "40 Funniest Fails" succeeds in the alliterative-title department, but the "win" stops there. Clips of unwise and tomfool-ish behavior, culled from TV and the Internet, are featured in this special hosted by comedian Julian McCullough and his puppet pal Ralphy.
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October 3, 2010 | By Noel Murray, Special to The Los Angeles Times
The Karate Kid (2010) Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $34.95/$38.96 Who could've predicted back in 1984 that a corny family movie about the noble art of self-defense would become so popular that its dialogue and story-arc would enter our shared pop-culture mythology? This year's "Karate Kid" remake updates the characters and the setting, casting Jaden Smith as a 12-year-old Detroiter who moves with his single mom to Beijing and gets kung fu lessons from their apartment's handyman (played by Jackie Chan)
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May 25, 2012 | By Amy Hubbard
Will Smith, star of "Men in Black 3," which opens wide today, can rap even better than he can slap. His recent backhanded smack of a reporter -- a TV personality who tries to out-Borat Borat --  was a sight to behold, but Smith's PR folks would rather put that all behind him. Ix-nay on the ap-slay, a publicist told reporters at the New York premiere of the film Wednesday, according to EW.com. Smith has been focusing on the rapping, not the slapping. He's now rapped at at least two premieres of his new movie.
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May 21, 2012 | By Amy Hubbard
Will Smith, as seen in a video at the Moscow premiere of "Men in Black III,"  dealt a shove, an annoyed expression and a backhand slap to a Ukrainian reporter who seemed intent on enveloping the actor in his arms.  Three steps farther along the red carpet, as the TMZ video shows, Smith's sunny smile was back on his face. He seemed to be making an effort to shake off the heebie jeebies from the extremely affectionate reporter.  The reporter, Vitalii Sediuk, may have a weakness for celebrities.
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April 5, 2011
New cable series score On a night crowded with cable premieres, "The Kennedys" set a record for the previously little-known ReelzChannel. Sunday's premiere of the sprawling eight-hour epic about the American political dynasty, starring Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes and Tom Wilkinson, delivered 1.9 million total viewers in its original airing plus an encore immediately afterward, according to the Nielsen Co. Meanwhile, AMC seems to have gotten...
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March 20, 2011
SUNDAY While you're sitting there in your pajamas, sipping your morning coffee and reading this, hundreds of your fellow citizens are running from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica in the "L.A. Marathon. " The least you can do is tune in and cheer them on. (KTLA, 7 a.m.) "40 Funniest Fails" succeeds in the alliterative-title department, but the "win" stops there. Clips of unwise and tomfool-ish behavior, culled from TV and the Internet, are featured in this special hosted by comedian Julian McCullough and his puppet pal Ralphy.
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October 3, 2010 | By Noel Murray, Special to The Los Angeles Times
The Karate Kid (2010) Sony, $28.96; Blu-ray, $34.95/$38.96 Who could've predicted back in 1984 that a corny family movie about the noble art of self-defense would become so popular that its dialogue and story-arc would enter our shared pop-culture mythology? This year's "Karate Kid" remake updates the characters and the setting, casting Jaden Smith as a 12-year-old Detroiter who moves with his single mom to Beijing and gets kung fu lessons from their apartment's handyman (played by Jackie Chan)
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June 11, 2010 | By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic
"The Karate Kid" is a kung fu kick of a film that hits more than it misses, with its fresh prince of Beijing in Jaden Smith, its scene-stealing grand master flash, Jackie Chan, and a shiny-happy China travelogue thrown in for good measure, or tax incentives, one of the two. The grit and the grime of the 1984 original are gone, swept under some Oriental rug no doubt in the spit-shine director Harald Zwart has given every nook and cranny of the...
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March 5, 2013 | By Nardine Saad
Brody Jenner is joining "Keeping Up With the Kardashians. " The son of Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner, patriarch of the Kardashian/Jenner clan, will be joining the E! series' season along with brother Brandon Jenner and his wife, Leah, according to stepsister Khloe Kardashian. "I'm always excited for each new season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians," Kardashian wrote on her blog Monday. "But I'm especially excited for this upcoming season because you're going to be seeing a lot more of the Kardashian/Jenner clan!
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May 2, 2010 | By Susan King, Los Angeles Times
Though he's not yet even a teenager, Jaden Smith appears as dedicated to his craft as a seasoned pro, putting in the hard hours to make his characters believable. For his starring role as Dre in the loose remake of "The Karate Kid," opening June 11, the son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith spent three months training in the martial arts in Los Angeles and then worked at it an additional four months in Beijing, where the film was shot last year. "Now, I'm doing it again," says the poised Jaden, 11, who appeared opposite his father in 2006's "The Pursuit of Happyness" as well as 2008's " The Day the Earth Stood Still."
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