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Will Smith Makes Me Sick
When one man’s over exposure becomes a bit much.
Willard Carroll Smith junior is a one man PR machine.
You would be hard placed to find anyone in Hollywood as relentless as he is.
Our protagonist is in our faces all of the time, every time; If he isn’t starring in a movie, He is taking us through his weight loss journey, revealing the inner recesses of his mind as he seeks to regain his six pack.
And recently, there’s been the promo of the man embarking on mission impossible across the planet, daring to go to places, of which the rest of us can only dream.
To paraphrase Barack Obama: “this guy makes Kim Kardashian look like a recluse”.
But one has really got to ask: when does it all become too much?
Don’t get me wrong, I have been a fan of the guy for well over 33 years; going back to 1988, when he released girls ain’t nothing but trouble alongside his partner in crime, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the more popular hits like summertime.
And I must point out that I enjoyed his comedic turn in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with lots of serious socio-political issues being dissected under the guise of comedy.
The episode with the late great James Avery is such an interesting case in point, in which his absent father…