Rubber Chicken Alert: Will Smith
It is a textbook example of a Rubber Chicken; Will Smith, while promoting his latest movie I won't see, let this quote loose:
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You know I just, I just came back from Moscow, Berlin, London and Paris and it's the first, I've been there quite a few times in the past five to 10 years. And it just hasn't been a good thing to be American. And this is the first time, since Barack has gotten the nomination, that it, it was a good thing. |
So Will, for the first time in 10 years it is good to be American?
Forbes has Will ranked #11 in its list of top 100 celebrities for 2008 earning an estimated $80 million for the year. In 2007 he was ranked #57 earning $31 million, in 2006 ranked #49 with $25 million and in 2005 he was ranked #13 earning $35 million.
Pulling in $171 million over the past four years, I'd say American life has been pretty good to Mr. Smith. Maybe that little dip between 2005 and 2006 is what he's talking about? Oh the humanity!