Blind Items Revealed #5 - Kindness
April 13, 2016
This A+ list mostly movie actor might actually be A list now. He is married to an actress not afraid to speak her mind. She also is not very big on charity, but our actor is. The guy wrote a $100K check to a NYC school last week which needed a new section of roof. It would have taken forever to get the funds through regular channels so the actor stepped up.
Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
Given the way the NYC school system operates forever probably should be changed to never. Nice of him to do.
ReplyDeleteNailed it
ReplyDeleteI worked with Smith for a brief period on a drama he was filming. He was very kind and upbeat (despite filming depressing scenes). He also stayed late every day after filming to sign autographs for an extra hour.
ReplyDeleteBut...did you nail it?
ReplyDeleteThat is nice to hear---I am not the biggest fan but you don't hear very many stories about him having bad behavior--nice to see someone not taking his wealth for granted...
ReplyDeleteNAILED IT
ReplyDeleteUhh, NYC public schools have more money than they know what to do with. Median salary of $75k for teachers. The operating budgets (post all salaries, benefits, and pensions) of ~$14,000,000 per school.
ReplyDeleteI'm quite sure an NYC public school could easily pay to repair a roof.
This blind is much more likely about either a charter school, which are punished by the teachers unions in NYC.
I actually call BS on Jada not being big on charity. She gave a motorcycle to someone I know as a gift (he races bikes) and she also adopted the dog of another person I know and sends videos of the dog playing with the other dogs on the compound so that everyone knows the dog is doing well.
ReplyDeleteShe might not ladle soup to the needy or write big checks, but she does do a lot of kind things for people (and especially animals).
You ate a good guy. I don't the shade being thrown on you
ReplyDeleteHIGH FIVE
ReplyDeleteYou're such a loser haha
ReplyDeleteI love the kindness blinds and reveals! Thank you so much for them Enty!
ReplyDelete$75k doesn't go very far in NYC.
ReplyDeleteUhh, "@Local" you know fuck-all about NYC schools. Your figures are wildly inflated, more like some fantasy you'd get from Fox News than any reputable source. Combining Evil New York with Evil Teachers Unions and poor, put upon Education Bidnessmen probably gave Fox freaks the best outrage orgasm they've had in weeks.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that charter schools are usually underperforming scams and deserve to be driven out of business. There are one or two decent ones but not enough to make the case for all the crooked, awful ones who manipulate test scores and lie about students' achievements.
Funneling billions in public education funds to con-men is not a viable plan for improving public education in America nor are "vouchers" a sensible way to assist families with private school tuition. The paltry voucher that a family would receive doesn't come anywhere near covering the costs of private schools. That includes less expensive parochial schools which would still be totally out of reach for the poor families that "voucher" enthusiasts always pretend they give a fuck about.
Public money is for public schools and public schools ONLY - the end.
Studio54, I, too, like reading the Kindness Blinds. I enjoy gossip, but some of it is distasteful (children being exploited), so I look forward to some positive news.
ReplyDeleteYou just told more truth than many can handle! Charter schools are not about what's best for students. They're a scam to privatize and profitize education.
ReplyDeleteCharter school graduate.
ReplyDeleteI had an experience with Smith as well...you could call this the opposite of a kindness. Saw a blockbuster film a few years ago and there were only 2 seats that weren't taken....they were next to an aisle seat that was being used by someone who had moved to the seat from a wheel chair. About 5 minutes before the movie started, a theater manager came and talked to the guy in the wheelchair next to the two seats and asked him to move. I don't know where they moved the guy to...but just after he left, Will Smith and two other people were escorted to these seats. The people in the audience who were aware of this booed.
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