Word: legendizing
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Will Smith plots his strategy for world domination from the head of the kingly wooden dining table in his sweeping Calabasas, Calif., home. "We call it Global Willing," says Smith of his travel itinerary to warm up the globe for his next film, I Am Legend, in which he plays the only survivor of a man-made plague that has wiped out humanity. "We're going to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Korea ..." It's the morning after Thanksgiving, and Smith, 39, is sleepy-eyed and unshaven after hosting 30 friends and family members for dinner. His wife Jada Pinkett Smith enters...
...established the erstwhile Prince as a box-office royal in the making. Since then, he has consistently delivered hits, most often as a good-natured guy saving the rest of us from the trauma of aliens, robots, crooks or poor dating habits. Commercial disappointments, like the golfing flop The Legend of Bagger Vance, are rare. "I look at movies in their essence," Smith says. "Will that idea sell? The last man on Earth is the essence of I Am Legend. It's a concept that's primal and connects to all those ideas of loneliness and abandonment." Occasionally Smith chooses...
Stephen Colbert is dead. Not the man, the legend. Suddenly, our favorite right-wing nutjob is just an expensive suit and a raised eyebrow. He perished Nov. 5, along with Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson, and the entire cast of Saturday Night Live...
After a day's shopping, it's time to wind down. Hanoi's center, both geographically and culturally, is the pristine Lake Hoan Kiem. According to legend, it was here that a giant tortoise swam off with the Emperor's magical sword, after the Emperor drove off those Chinese invaders in the 1400s. Today it's a popular gathering spot where locals stroll, play chess, practice tai chi and, at night, admire the jewels that dot the lake: the red-lacquered Rising Sun Bridge, the Jade Mountain Temple and the Tortoise Tower. Here visitors can soak in the real Hanoi...
...humble cafe, high school gym, community center or convention hall that is part of a major media event - with famous faces popping up in the crowd of ordinary Iowans. And not just famous politicians and television reporters either. Singer Paul Simon has opened for Chris Dodd; John Legend for Obama; and Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne for Edwards...