Where There’s A Will, There’s A Way-Out Theory

Maybe Will Smith has been watching too many science fiction movies or something.

According to US magazine, the “Men In Black” star is a self-confessed “conspiracy theorist” who sees the hand of Big Brother in many, many places.

He’s convinced that “the CIA (was) putting drugs and guns into the black community - South Central Los Angeles, specifically,” although the newspaper reports unmasking the alleged plot have been largely discredited.

Smith also “absolutely believe(s)” that AIDS is a result of testing for biological warfare. “I think it was introduced into the homosexual communities in America,” he says.

Not only that, Smith adds, “The Army’s spraying the common cold in the subway system of Manhattan to test different medications.”

Loose talk

Rocker/actor Jon Bon Jovi, on his dual careers (in People magazine): “Acting is this craft, something you have to learn. Music (is) something you really pick up playing in the garage.”

Let’s hope his heart isn’t a lonely one

Tab Hunter turns 66 today.

Hey, it’s a dog-eat-dog world out there

Remember how actress Kim Basinger agreed to adopt 36 beagle puppies to save them from drug testing that would have involved breaking their legs? The tests were canceled, but when Basinger showed up to claim the canines, she was told the dogs were specially bred for research and were unprepared to live outside a lab.

We hear it’s turning into a real dogfight

Speaking of man’s best friend, the latest development in that much-ballyhooed Gwyneth Paltrow-Brad Pitt split: the uncoupled couple are now said to be embroiled in a custody battle over their three pooches.

Every gay character is gay in its own way

Rupert Everett, the openly homosexual actor who scored big as Julia Roberts’ gay buddy in “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” also plays gays in his next two films. “My feeling is that if I only get to play gay characters from now on, that’s really fine by me,” Everett says. “Gay characters, contrary to popular opinion, are not all the same.”

Well, at least he’s got the ‘heavy’ part down

And speaking of typecasting, Reginald VelJohnson, the pudgy pushover of a dad on TV’s “Family Matters” who’s always played good guys on the big screen (“Die Hard,” “Crocodile Dundee,” “Ghostbusters”), is itching to change his image. “I’m going to play a heavy dramatic role one of these days even if I have to write it myself,” said VelJohnson, who’s working on some movie screenplays.

But it probably won’t be a permanent thing

Crooner Michael Bolton, meanwhile, has sold a screenplay about a civil attorney who gets pulled into a criminal case, and will play the lead role himself. Just one catch: he has to trim his frizzy locks. “Not a buzz, but something short,” Bolton says. “I am playing an attorney.”

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