Posted by King Craiger at usercq91.uk.uudial.com on February 08, 2001 at 16:09:09:
In Reply to: No, I remember now Kim was his old girlfriend...NT posted by Piscez on February 08, 2001 at 16:00:52:
: : : : Dies.
: : : : No, just kidding. But for my journalism class I had to write an obituary, and of course I chose Kevin Smith. And I thought it was due today, but actually it was due tommorow. So, I can fix it up.
: : : : Biggest thing I left out were his wife and kid, because I didn't have time to track down when they were married, or what Kim's maiden name.
: : : : So here's what I have, tell me if I got anything wrong, or left out any important information.
: : : : And I know its lame, I just whipped it up for my class.
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: : : : Kevin Smith, Famed Indie Writer/Director, is dead at 30.
: : : : By Brian Treis
: : : : Los Angeles- Kevin Smith, renowned writer/director of such films as “Clerks”, “Chasing Amy” and “Dogma”, died while filming in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 30.
: : : : While doing a choreographed dance on camera with longtime friend and co-star Jason Mewes, Smith fell onto a fiberglass prop and was killed. He had been filming his fifth film, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”.
: : : : In 1992 Smith dropped out of Vancouver Film School. He decided to make his own movie, with Scott Mosier, whom he had befriended at the school. He hired local theater actors and high school friends to play the roles, and paid for it with $27,575 earned from credit cards and selling his comic book collection. “Clerks” was released and was very successful for an independent film. The movie, shot on 16mm black and white film, was a vulgar comedy about two slackers who worked at adjacent stores. It chronicled their lives over the course of one day. Smith’s sophomore slump effort, the unoriginal (“Clerks in a mall”) and over-produced “Mallrats”, was a commercial and critical disaster. He rebounded in 1997 with “Chasing Amy”, a critically acclaimed movie. For Smith is was a very personal movie, based largely on his then romance with Joey Lauren Adams, who starred in the movie and had had a role on “Mallrats.”
: : : : His first three movies featured romantically confused twentysomethings living in New Jersey. In 1999 Smith became infamous for his fourth film, the religious comedic fantasy “Dogma”, which sparked massive protest from certain religious groups. His four movies, and the tie-in comic books and television show (based on Clerks) have a cult following. Besides writing and directing the movies, he appeared in all of them as “Silent Bob”, opposite of his friend Jason Mewes, who played "Jay".
: : : : Smith was born on August 2nd, 1970, in Highlands, New Jersey. He was the youngest of the three children of Donald and Grace Smith. Funeral arrangements have not been made.
: : : : JOEY: I wish I had more in it, honestly.