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Smith at the 2017 Born Kevin Patrick Smith ( 1970-08-02) August 2, 1970 (age 47), U.S. Residence, U.S. Occupation, Years active 1992–present Spouse(s) (1999–present) Children Website Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smith's follow-up films, and which were set primarily in his home state of. While not strictly sequential, the films frequently featured crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared described by fans as the ', named after his production company, which he co-founded with.

Smith also directed and produced films such as the action comedy (2010), the horror film (2011), and the horror comedy (2014), the first film in the. Smith is the owner of, a comic book store in that is the subject of the show.

He also hosts the movie-review television show. As a podcaster, Smith co-hosts several shows on his own, including, and the live show. Smith is well known for participating in long, humorous Q&A sessions that are often filmed for release, beginning with. Smith at the Smith then focused the spotlight on two characters who had appeared in supporting roles in his previous four films, featured an all-star cast, with many familiar faces returning from Smith's first four films. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon appear as themselves filming a mock sequel to Good Will Hunting.

The $20 million film earned $30 million at the box office and received mixed reviews from the critics. With Ben Affleck, George Carlin and, his first outside of the View Askewniverse, was meant to mark a new direction in Smith's career. However, the film took a critical beating as it was seen as, in Smith's own words, ' 2', due to the fact that it co-starred Affleck and his then-girlfriend,. Despite Smith heavily re-editing the film to reduce Lopez's role to just a few scenes, the film did poorly at the box office.

Budgeted at $35 million, it earned only $36 million. In the 2006 sequel, Smith revisited the Dante and Randal characters from his first film for what was his final visit to the View Askewniverse. Roundly criticized before its release, the film went on to win favorable reviews as well as two awards (the Audience Award at the and the Orbit Dirtiest Mouth Award at the ). It marked Smith's third trip to the Cannes International Film Festival, where Clerks II received an eight-minute standing ovation. The $5 million film, starring Jeff Anderson, Brian O'Halloran, Jason Mewes, Jennifer Schwalbach and Smith himself – reprising his role as Silent Bob – earned $25 million. Was originally announced in March 2006 as Smith's second non-Askewniverse film.

The film, which began shooting on January 18, 2008 in, Pennsylvania, and wrapped on March 15, 2008, stars and as the title characters who decide to make a low-budget pornographic film to solve their money problems. The film, which was released on October 31, 2008, ran into many conflicts getting an 'R' rating, with Rogen stating: It's a really filthy movie. I hear they are having some problems getting an R rating from an NC-17 rating, which is never good. They fight against sex stuff. Isn't that weird? It's really crazy to me that is fine, with people gouging their eyes out and shit like that, but you can't show two people having sex – that's too much. Smith took the film through the MPAA's appeals process and received the R rating, without having to make any further edits.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno was considered a box office 'flop' in part because of 'tepid media advertising for a movie with the title PORNO', and, in the aftermath of the film's low performance, the business relationship between Smith and producer became 'frayed'. Zack and Miri Make a Porno opened #2 behind with $10,682,000 from 2,735 theaters with an average of $3,906.

The 'bankable' Rogen experienced his 'worst box-office opening ever'. In an interview with Katla McGlynn of the, Smith himself observed: I was depressed, man.

I wanted that movie to do so much better. I'm sitting there thinking 'That's it, that's it, I'm gone, I'm out. The movie didn't do well and I killed Seth Rogen's career! This dude was on a roll until he got in with the likes of me. I'm a career killer! Judd's Apatow going to be pissed, the whole Internet's going to be pissed because they all like Seth, and the only reason they like me anymore is because I was involved with Seth!

And now I fuckin' ruined that. It was like high school. I was like, 'I'm a dead man. I'll be the laughing stock.'

It was announced in 2009 that Smith had signed on to direct a buddy-cop comedy starring and called A Couple of Dicks and written by the Cullen Brothers. Due to controversy surrounding the original title, it was changed to A Couple of Cops, before reverting its original title, A Couple of Dicks, due to negative reaction, before finally settling on the title. The film, which was shot between June and August 2009, involved a pair of veteran cops tracking down a stolen vintage baseball card, and was released on February 26, 2010 to poor reviews; it was the first film that Smith has directed but not written. Cop Out opened at number 2 at the box office and was mired in controversy, mostly over reported conflicts he had on the set of the film with lead actor Bruce Willis; marking Smith's last time that he would work with a major studio, leading him to return to his independent film roots. In September 2010, Smith started work on, an independently-financed horror film loosely inspired by the and their Pastor. Film producers and moguls and Harvey Weinstein who had thus far been involved in the distribution of most of Smith's films, with the exception of Mallrats and Cop Out, declined to support Red State. The film stars, and.

Smith had indicated that he would auction off rights to the $4 million film at a controversial event following the debut screening of the film at but instead, kept the rights to the film himself and self-distributed the picture 'under the ' banner. The premiere in January 2011 drew protests from a half-dozen members of the church, along with many more who counter-protested Westboro members.

He further explained his decision as a way to return to an era when marketing a film did not cost four times as much as the film itself, a situation he has described as 'both decadent and deadening'. Red State was a, earning $1,104,682 against a budget of $4 million, and opened to poor reviews, with the consensus of critics reporting (according to the critic aggregator ) that 'Red State is an audacious and brash affair that ultimately fails to provide competent scares or thrills.' In April 2011, Smith revealed that Red State had already made its budget back with the film making $1 million on the first leg of the tour, $1.5 million from a handful of foreign sales and $3 million from a domestic distribution deal for VOD. After Red State, Smith has said in the past he would retire from directing and announced his last movie would be.

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However, he stated in December 2013 that he would continue to make movies but only ones that were uniquely his, as opposed to generic ones that 'anybody could make'. In 2013 Smith directed a horror film called, which was inspired by a story Smith and read about a ad for a man who rents out a room in his house for free, on the condition that the respondent dresses as a walrus for two hours per day. The project began pre-production in September 2013.

Shooting began on November 4, 2013, and wrapped on November 22, 2013. The film was released on September 19, 2014. It has received mixed reviews. Smith revealed before the release of Tusk that he had written a spin-off. The film, began filming in August 2014 and was released in 2016. It stars Smith's daughter, and, reprising their two minor characters from Tusk, alongside again playing his inspector character from the earlier film. Smith revealed at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con that he has written a film called, which he describes as 'Jaws, with a moose', and which will be the third and final film in his True North trilogy.

In February 2015 announced Smith as one of the directors who will direct the, along with, and. On March 12, 2015 Smith revealed he would film Clerks III in May 2015, followed in early 2016 by Moose Jaws and Anti-Claus (a story inspired by the tradition), and also alluded to a Mallrats sequel, which he confirmed the next day. On April 8, 2015, Smith confirmed that Mallrats 2 would be his next film, not Clerks III as he had previously intended. Smith said 'we were talking about initially shooting 'Clerks III' this summer and then we were going to get to 'Mallrats' in the beginning of 2016. And then it jumped into 2015, where we were going to shoot 'Clerk's and then hopefully 'Mallrats' before the end of the year. But now, based on a f—ing mall that we all dig that will be going away, the priority has become 'Mallrats.' So the next f—ing movie I'm making is 'Mallrats 2.'

A majority of the cast from the original film have signed on to appear in the sequel with sixteen of eighteen confirmed. In June 2016, Smith revealed that Mallrats 2 was going to be a 10-episode TV series instead, though no networks have shown interest yet. On February 10, 2017, Smith announced the cancellation of Clerks III, as Jeff Anderson dropped out of the project three months before shooting. This, combined with trouble of getting the Mallrats 2 series off the ground, inspired Smith to write and direct a sequel instead, titled Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.

The movie is scheduled to be filmed in September 2017, to be followed by 'Moose Jaws'. Writer In 1996, Smith worked on a script for. He wrote a couple of drafts but his script was dropped when was hired to direct and brought his own people in to work on the project. Smith still sees the whole experience on working on the Superman project as a positive one, however; he has said that he was well paid and it was a lot of fun.

In April 2009, Smith discussed his Superman experiences at Clark University—a YouTube video that critic of called 'extraordinary'. In the end, neither Smith's nor Burton's vision for Superman was filmed.

In the 2007 Direct-to-DVD animation release of, Smith has a cameo as an onlooker in a crowd. After Superman defeats 's giant mechanical robot, Smith scoffs, 'Yeah, like we really needed him to defeat that giant spider.

This was a reference to a giant spider that producer wanted Smith to put in the film when he was attached, that was later put into the 1999 feature film flop, which Peters also produced. In 1997, Smith was hired by to rewrite, which was expected to be a blockbuster teen movie. Smith's then-girlfriend almost took the role of Ivy in the movie, instead of the female lead in. Eventually she lost out to, and Overnight Delivery was quietly released directly to video in April 1998.

Smith's involvement with the film was revealed on-line, but he remains uncredited. He has said that the only scene which really used his dialogue was the opening scene, which includes a reference to long-time Smith friend. In 2004, Smith wrote a screenplay for a new film version of, and announced prematurely that he had originally intended to direct as well. The project, however died after the film was placed into following the poor box office of. Smith's screenplay was later turned into a Green Hornet comic book miniseries. Comics and magazines Smith has been a regular contributor to magazine.

In 2005, released Smith's first book, a collection of previously published essays (most from Arena) dissecting pop culture, the movie business, and Smith's personal life. His second book, My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith, published by, was another collection of previously published essays (this time blogs from Smith's website silentbobspeaks.com) and reached No. 32 on Best Sellers List. Titan released Smith's third book Shootin' the Sh.t with Kevin Smith: The Best of the SModcast on September 29, 2009. Smith at the 2008 convention A lifelong comic book fan, Smith's early forays into comic books dealt with previously established View Askew characters, and were published.

He wrote a short story about Walt Flanagan's dog in Oni Double Feature No. 1, and followed it with a story in Oni Double Feature #12. He followed these with a series of.

The first was simply Clerks: The Comic Book, which told of Randal's attempts to corner the market on Star Wars toys. The second was Clerks: Holiday Special, where Dante and Randal discover that Santa Claus lives in an apartment between the Quick Stop and RST Video. Third was Clerks: The Lost Scene, showing what happened inside Poston's Funeral Parlor. This story was later animated in the TV series style and included as an extra on the 10th Anniversary DVD. Smith then wrote the mini-series, which tells the story of Jay and Silent Bob between the films and. He has also written the, published by, which purports to be a collection of the three issues of the series done by Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards (of Chasing Amy).

It includes a color reprinting of the story from Oni Double Feature No. 12, purported to be an early appearance by Chasing Amy characters Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards. These stories have all been collected in Tales From the Clerks (Graphitti Designs, ), which also includes a new Clerks story tying into the Clerks 2 material, and the story from Oni Double Feature #1.

They were previously collected by Image Comics in three separate volumes, one each for Clerks, Chasing Dogma and Bluntman and Chronic. In 1999, Smith won a, for Best New Talent in comic books. In 1999, Smith wrote ', an eight-issue story arc of for, which was illustrated.

Smith followed this by producing a 15-issue tenure on for that saw the return of from the dead and the introduction of, a teenage girl who would become Speedy after Smith's run had ended. Smith returned to Marvel for two mini-series: and, both of which debuted in 2002.

The former was six issues long, but after the third issue was published two months after the initially scheduled release date, the final issues were delayed for at least three years, prompting Marvel to release an 'in case you missed it' reprinting of the first three issues as one book prior to the remaining issues' release. The delay in part was due to Smith's movie production schedule (in this case, work on Jersey Girl and Clerks II) causing him to shelve completion of the mini-series until the films were completed. He was announced as the writer of an ongoing series and in early to mid-2002. However, because of the delays on Evil That Men Do and The Target, the plan was switched so that Smith would start a third Spider-Man title, launched in 2004 by instead. While Spider-Man/Black Cat was ultimately completed in 2005, Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target remains unfinished, with one issue published. Smith wrote the limited series, with art by friend, which ran from November 2008 to January 2009. The series featured the villains (a character created by Smith during his run at Green Arrow), and.

The of Batman: Cacophony became a in their Hardcover Graphic Books section. In 2010 Smith subsequently wrote a six-issue mini-series called for DC drawn by Walt Flanagan. The series was initially planned as 12 issues, with a long break planned between issues six and seven.

After issue six was published, Smith and Flanagan's work on their reality show, extended this planned break further than expected. It was decided in the interim to release the remaining issues as a separate series to be called, scheduled for 2016 but as of yet remains unpublished. Also in 2010 Smith published a story for, which was based on an unused script he wrote for a Green Hornet film project that never came to fruition. In August 2011, Dynamite Entertainment debuted by Smith, which was based on a 1998 script he wrote that was rejected by Universal as being 'more like a comic book than a movie.'

In 2014, Smith and released a six-issue crossover featuring Batman and Green Hornet titled Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet. Television. Smith and the cast of at the In 1998, Smith shot two TV commercials for, which he filmed in New Jersey. In 2000, Smith and Mosier teamed up with television writer to develop an animated television show based on Clerks. Called that aired on in May 2000. It aired only two episodes before being canceled as a result of poor ratings. The six produced episodes were released on DVD in 2001.

During the mid-1990s Smith directed and starred in a series of commercials for MTV, alongside, in which they reprised their roles as. In 1998 he directed Mewes as 'Gary Lamb – Ground Activist' in a series of commercials. That same year, he also shot commercials for Diet Coke. Two years later, he directed Star Wars toy commercials for Hasbro. He has also directed and starred in commercials for.

In 2004 he also shot a for the organization. These advertisements brought Jay and Silent Bob out of their 'semi-retirement.' On February 27, 2002, Smith released a short film for called.

Smith directed the pilot for show. TV.com's summary of the show is 'A twenty-something slacker finally scores a job as 's.' He describes it as 'less or and more like than anything else'.

He went on to say that the reason he took the job was that he has always wanted to direct something he did not write, but never had an interest in doing it on the big screen. At the 2007, it was announced that Smith would write and direct an episode of the spin-off, but the project was canceled because of the. Smith appears in and produces the reality television series, which is set inside Smith's comic book shop, in. The first season ran for six one-hour episodes, the premiere of which aired on February 12, 2012, following the return of 's second season on.

On May 9, AMC announced that Comic Book Men was renewed for a second season of 16 half-hour episodes. The show is currently in its sixth season. Smith had planned to direct a hockey drama-comedy based on the song '.

The song, which is about a hockey player famous for fighting in the rink, was co-written by author, who is working with Smith on the project. Smith announced at the Sundance premiere of that Hit Somebody will be the last movie he ever directs, and that he will continue to tell stories in other media. In August 2011 Hit Somebody was announced as a two-part film titled Hit Somebody: Home and Hit Somebody: Away with part one being rated and part 2 being rated, but later decided to make it one movie again. In December 2012 Smith announced that Hit Somebody would now be a six-part on an as yet unknown network. The reason given for the project changing from film to TV was that finding funding or a studio for a hockey movie had proven difficult. Smith announced in March 2015 that Hit Somebody would film in September 2015 until Christmas 2015, but this did not happen. A second series of aired on in Canada.

In January 2016, during the press tour, it was announced that Smith will direct an episode of, which premiered in May. Also in January, it was revealed that Smith wrapped production on a half-hour comedy series, Hollyweed, which was written and directed by Smith who also stars in the series with, and. In May 2016, Smith announced he is adapting for television through and stated that he and the company are in the process of shopping it around to a network. In July 2016, it was revealed that was close to closing a deal to produce The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai TV series. However, in November 2016 during a Facebook Live Stream, Smith revealed that he would be walking away from the series after MGM filed a lawsuit against the original creators. Although Smith stated he would be willing to come back on board if they wanted him.

In June 2016, Smith revealed that because owns the rights to the Mallrats title that a sequel will not be made, instead, it will be turned into a 10 episode TV series produced. Also in June, Smith confirmed that the entire cast from the film will reprise their roles in the series with the same premise of the film, but stretched out for the series. Towards the end of the month, Smith announced that he had closed a deal with Universal Television to pitch the series to networks and streaming services in August. In July 2016, Smith revealed that he will be directing episode 7 of season 3 of The Flash. In August 2016, Smith announced that he will direct an upcoming episode of titled '. He then directed another episode of Supergirl, '.' In November 2016, it was revealed that Smith will direct an episode of.

In February 2017, Smith was announced to write, direct, and executive produce a TV series based on the Image Comics title for. Acting roles and other appearances As an actor, Smith is known for his role as in, and. He made a cameo appearance in the horror film, and was featured along with in several episodes, including a special, 'Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi' (also as a fictional version of himself). Smith also appeared in an show titled.

The show gives college students ideas for things to do on the weekends. Smith also played the role of Paul, a cynical divorced man, in a television series pilot, 'Manchild', filmed in December 2006. However, it was not picked up by the network. From 1995 to 1997, Smith played small roles in the View Askew movies, and. In 2001, he appeared in friend Jeff Anderson's. After an August 2001 appearance on to promote Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Smith returned to the show for monthly segments as a correspondent.

The 'Roadside Attractions' segments featured Smith traveling to random locations around the country and showcased places like in upstate New York and the Fish Market in. While five of these segments were included on the DVD, at least twelve were aired on the actual show.

Smith regularly appeared on the program to introduce the pre-taped pieces. In 2003, Smith appeared in a cameo role as coroner in the film. In 2006, he voiced the Moose in the CGI cartoon.

In early 2005, of the Canadian-made teen drama. Smith is an avid fan of the original series and, and references to the original are present in some of his early films. In the episodes, Smith, portraying a fictionalized version of himself, visited the school to work on the (fictional) film Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh! Smith wrote his own dialogue for the episodes. All three episodes were collected on a DVD entitled Jay and Silent Bob Do Degrassi. Smith and Mewes reappeared in two episodes the following season, in which they returned to Degrassi for the Toronto premiere of the movie.

Smith also appeared in the 2009 made-for-TV movie. In 2006, Smith guest reviewed on, in place of, who was recovering from treatment. These spots have been notable for the arguments between Smith and over certain films, with Smith often citing Roeper's negative review of Jersey Girl to discredit his review of the film at hand. On one appearance, Smith compared 's to the works of. Smith was featured as one of the interview subjects in, a 2006 documentary about the 's process of rating films. Smith discussed how receiving an R rating, on the basis of a conversation two characters in that film have about masturbation, which MPAA head told Smith she wouldn't feel comfortable having her 16-year-old daughter watching.

Smith's response was to question whether Graves' daughter hadn't already masturbated or learned about masturbation, arguing that his film was not teaching 16-year-olds anything they did not already know. In 2006 Smith appeared in a number of films. He co-starred as Sam in the film, starring. Later that year, he appeared as a hacker called The Warlock in the fourth installment of the franchise,.

At year's end, he appeared briefly in friend and fellow writer-director, in which he played the legless conspiracy theorist General Simon Theory. That same year, Smith also did voicework for the CGI film as a diner chef. He was also seen as Rusty (a friend of lead Jason Mewes) in with co-star Paris Hilton. Smith has also cameoed in the of the sitcom, where he played himself, on an episode of (2000, episode 'Black, White and Blue'), (2003 as, voice only) and (2004, as himself and as Silent Bob behind the end credits). Smith appeared in the second episode of season two of, playing a store clerk. He stated on his Web site that Veronica Mars is some of the best television work ever produced. Smith has appeared in five Q&A documentaries:, and.

The fourth installment, was broadcast on on October 23, 2010. The fifth Q&A, also broadcast on Epix beginning February 11, 2012. The first is a collection of filmed appearances at American colleges, while the sequel was shot at two Q&A shows held in and London. The third and fourth were filmed in Red Bank, New Jersey at the Count Basie Theater on Smith's 37th and 40th birthdays, respectively. The fifth was filmed in Austin, Texas at the Paramount Theater. The first two DVD sets were released by Sony Home Video, while the third was put out by the Weinstein Company.

Smith appears with Marvel Comics guru in Marvel Then & Now: An Evening With Stan Lee and Joe Quesada, hosted by Kevin Smith. The film is similar in tone to the Evening with Kevin Smith series. Proceeds from the sale of the film benefit, a charitable organization that aids ill or aging comic book creators. Smith played himself in the video game. He also appears as a playable character. In February 2016, it was revealed that Smith will team with and to co-host a late night talk show with titled which premiered in July 2016, covering with 8 subsequent episodes running weekly. Smith also appears as himself in Zombies, as a cameo in the map, Rave in the Redwoods.

In 2017, he appeared as himself in the animated movie from the series. Public appearances. Smith speaking at the 2013 Smith's longest Q&A session took place April 2, 2005, at the in, New Jersey. The sold-out event was over seven hours long, took place from 8 pm through 3 am (which due to, was actually 4 am). Following the Q&A, he opened for a meet-and-greet with the numerous remaining audience members, which ended around 6:30 am.

Smith then hopped on a plane and did another Q&A at the Raue Center for the Arts in, Illinois, that night. Planned for two hours, it lasted just over five hours, ending a little after 1 am Central time. In 2009 Smith made a sold out appearance at and the in 2010. On the Internet Smith has a website, The View Askewniverse, which opened in late 1995. He also has an online blog, 'My Boring-Ass Life', the contents of which were published in a book by the same name.

's fictional website MoviePoopShoot.com became real in 2002. It became and was the home of SModcast until it was sold and SModcast moved to a dedicated website, which also carries the other SModcast network in early 2010. On February 5, 2007, Smith and began, a regular comedy podcast. SModcast has since spawned into a podcast network called the SModcast podcast network which began in 2010, its own station called SModcast Internet Radio (S.I.R) in 2011 and an internet television channel SModCo Internet Television (S.I.T.) in 2012. On June 4, 2012, Smith premiered his -exclusive weekly series, described as an 'anti-movie review' series, where Smith takes a group of people to a new movie and has them comment on what they've seen. Other segments on the show include interviews with celebrities, and the 'Criterion Lounge', where Smith discusses a movie available on DVD and the Hulu Plus service. On December 14, 2015, Smith began posting his 'Fatman on Batman' series on.

In late 2015, Smith and Jason Mewes began the web series 'What's in the Box?' On the website, through the site's streaming service.

Secret Stash. Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash in Red Bank, New Jersey Smith owns and operates in, New Jersey, a comic book store largely dedicated to merchandise related to his films and comics. He purchased the original store in January 1997 for US$30,000, using the money he earned from Clerks. The current location is its second.

The store was moved to a defunct ice cream parlor on Broad St. After Smith sold the Monmouth St. The New Jersey location is managed by Smith's long-time friend, who appears frequently in Smith's films. A second Secret Stash in the Westwood section of Los Angeles was opened in September 2004 and was managed by long-time associate Bryan Johnson, who has appeared in Smith's films as Steve-Dave. Smith had announced that he would close after his lease expired and Johnson wanted to resign, but eventually relocated to Laser Blazer, a DVD store in Los Angeles. In January 2009 the West Coast Store closed, leaving the east coast store as Smith's only operating store. Personal life After the success of his first films, Smith lived in Los Angeles, though he disliked no longer being near his friends.

He dated actress, and declared his desire to marry her in magazine, but they began to grow apart after he spoke of staying in Los Angeles permanently and starting a life with her. When Smith's grandmother became ill, he returned to Red Bank and remained there, realizing that that was where he belonged. Smith and Adams' relationship was tested by their working together on Chasing Amy, the set of which saw a heated argument between the two. They broke up in June 1997.

Kevin Smith and in 2011 Smith is married to, whom he met while she was interviewing him for. They got married at on April 25, 1999. He photographed her for a nude pictorial in that consisted of photographs by various celebrities. Their daughter, was born June 26, 1999, and was named after from the comics.

They live in the, in a house Smith purchased from longtime friend in 2003. Initially raised Catholic, Smith began to develop doubts about his beliefs in his early 20s, and came to see as 'dry and lip-servicey.' Seeking out advice, Smith spoke to a priest, who analogized faith to liquid filling a shot glass, and explained that the glass grows in size as a person grows older, and thus the same knowledge that satisfies a person as a child can be insufficient as an adult. Smith read extensively on Christianity, explored other religions, read the, and tried joining a Pentecostal congregation. The thoughts and ideas he explored during this time formed the inspiration for his film Dogma, the beginning of which features characters using the shot glass metaphor used by the priest.

Though Smith still regularly attended Mass as late as 1998, he stated on 'Back to the Well', a feature on the Clerks II documentary, that now he only goes to Mass on the day before he starts production of a film, and the day before it premieres. Nevertheless, Smith told the in September 2014 that he firmly professes a belief in. He said, 'Proof of God is that I have a career.' He never smoked until his debut film, Clerks, in which he used the cigarettes as a prop, but did not inhale.

He has said that prior to filming Clerks, he was a staunch non-smoker. He quit smoking cigarettes in 2008 after taking up smoking after working with on. Smith has had a history of yo-yo dieting, being an avid supporter of 'Optifast'. He lost 50 pounds (23 kg) upon meeting his wife. In 2008 he weighed in excess of 400 pounds (180 kg), though after eliminating sugar from his diet and taking up juice fasts, he lowered himself to 210 pounds (95 kg). Smith is an avid hockey fan and loyal fan.

He is also a fan of the. Filmography.

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The last time I met him, he had just been given his death sentence. A dark cloud on the X-ray of his lungs confirmed that he was suffering from inoperable lung cancer, and had at most a year to live. As his readers will know, it was the second time the man had heard this grim verdict. In the final days of 1959, the doctors told him that he was dying from a cerebral tumour. Unemployable, and wanting to leave his widow a modest inheritance, he sat down at his typewriter and began to pound out 2,000 words a day, so turning himself from John Wilson, redundant colonial officer, into Anthony Burgess, professional writer.

But the judgement he received on 8 November 1992 was, alas, more accurate. This time, Burgess only out-lived his predicted span by a couple of weeks. How did he react to this second death knell?

In exactly the same way he had responded to the first: he worked, and worked hard. On that particular November weekend last year, it was his professional obligation to promote his new book about language, A Mouthful of Air. Now, 'professional' is often a doubtful word, made slippery from too frequent use by the self-satisfied and self-advancing. Yet though his own definition of the adjective was modest ('the pursuit of a trade or calling to the end of paying the rent and buying liquor'), Burgess's conduct on the promotional tour was a model of what it might mean to be a professional. He would have been wholly within his rights to cry off with pleas of emotional distress and illness - he was coughing blood, and at meal-times could barely eat more than a mouthful of food - yet he not only carried on as planned but threw himself into the task with all of the vigour, and more, of a man four decades his junior.

I travelled with him for three days of his publicity tour, to Cheltenham, Edinburgh and London; our little road company was made complete by his devoted second wife, Liana, and by Bridget Sleddin, then his publicist. Burgess's touring schedule could begin as early as breakfast time, when bright young journalists would quiz him about everything from the literature of glasnost to Papal infallibility. It would continue with radio appearances, signings, impromptu talks, more interviews, formal lectures, more signings, yet more interviews. And would last into the small hours, when he would would peck at his belated supper, wonder whether a plate of spaghetti alle vongole might not rouse his sick appetite, and allow himself some lugubrious digressions on the subject of imminent mortality. Not that he altogether avoided the topic earlier in the day.

On the contrary, he made it into a vein of gallows humour, which had innocent audiences chuckling with almost eerie mirth and carried a horrible sting for those who knew he was in deathly earnest. Greeted by an old college acquaintance with a routine 'How are you?' , he replied bluntly 'I'm dying.' On the plane down from Edinburgh, he listened stone-faced to the chief steward chirping that he and the rest of the crew hoped to see us all again soon, and rumbled a single word: 'Unlikely.' But in front of audiences, he knew that it was his business to give instruction and delight. The torrent of applause which greeted his Cheltenham lecture was ample proof that he had succeeded. Looking back on that trip now, with the shock of his death still fresh, I almost wonder whether I'm not deceiving myself a little, and hyping up the memory of his courtesy, his humour and his tenacity in a spirit of de mortuis nil nisi bonum.

(He loved Latin, and once proposed that if the bureaucrats of the European Union really wanted the continent to have a common language, they could do no better than revive the old lingua franca of educated Europe. 'Homesickness for the Christendom of the 13th century,' he said, was at the root of this proposal.) But I really don't think so - I have tapes, and the witness of many others to corroborate my memories. Besides, the humour, the hard work and even the courtesy are all there in the books.

Though I only met him a handful of times, getting to know Burgess through those books has been the pleasure of more than 20 years. Shyness, or what he somewhere calls 'damnable English reticence' prevented me from saying last November the things I now bitterly wish I had said.

That he had been a stimulating teacher for me ever since I blundered across Urgent Studies, his first collection of journalism, and bought it for the extravagant sum of 10 shillings. That some of his novels - the Enderby series, Nothing Like the Sun, MF - had given me more pleasure, simple and complex, than those of any other living novelist.

That I thought too few of his countrymen, who dismissed him as a bore, a crank, an egotist or a charlatan, had realised what a fine and funny writer he really was. Instead, I mumbled something about how much I had enjoyed his autobiography, and mentioned a couple of the boosts I had put its way in a review ('gives polymathy a good name', 'incomparable panache' and so on).

He was pleased with this, or kind enough to pretend so, and I hope that he inferred at least a few of the other things. Now that he is gone, certain recollections of that tour have started to redefine his work for me. I've just noticed, for example, how many of his novels are about the death of writers: ABBA ABBA, on the last days of Keats; The Clockwork Testament, which killed off his alter ego, the poet F X Enderby (resurrected for Enderby's Dark Lady); The End of the World News, in which Freud suffered his terminal agonies from jaw cancer; and the novel we must now, unless there are manuscripts in a vault somewhere, call his last, A Dead Man in Deptford, concerning the murder of Christopher Marlowe. I've also been thinking about how central the prospect of death was to all of his work. It was a mistaken diagnosis of terminal disease which made him into a full-time writer, and it was his persistent awareness of the encroaching dark which made him so massively productive. As he remarks in Little Wilson and Big God: 'Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.' This was his personal version of a traditional wisdom in the Gospel according to St John: 'I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work.'

(Samuel Johnson, whose professionalism Burgess took as his own model, kept that text on his watch; the two writers have other affinities.) While we were flying back to London, he recited, at my request, Coventry Patmore's poem 'Toys' - a pious Victorian piece which, he confessed in the closing pages of his autobiography, still had the power to make him weep. It's about a widower, who, guilty at having struck his young son, goes into the boy's bedroom and sheds tears of his own at seeing how the child has put his toys by his bedside for comfort: 'Ranged there with careful art / To comfort his sad heart.' It is also a poem about death, and the ways in which art is at once able and powerless to console us at the prospect. After a final drive into central London, we shook hands, and he went off to yet another signing session. 'We'll meet again,' he said. It wasn't to be, though there were several opportunities for meeting: damnable reticence, again. Burgess had spoken several times during that trip of his residual fear of hell, which no amount of reading rationalist authors could wholly quiet.

I don't know yet whether he returned to the Catholic faith of his childhood during the past 12 months, or whether he made a last confession, but I hope that this fear didn't plague him too fiercely, and fervently wish him in a better place, if there is one. Requiescat in pace: few writers have done more to earn eternal repose. (Photograph omitted). More about:. How to disable your ad blocker for independent.co.uk Adblock / Adblock Plus. Click the Adblock/Adblock Plus icon, which is to the right of your address bar.

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