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Kevin Smith is one of us. Yes, that's right...one of us. He's not a Francis Ford Coppola or a Martin Scorcese, but a guy from New Jersey that decided to take a risk and make little movie called "Clerks". It paid off.

Maybe Apple isn't coming to Macworld 2010 , but that just means it won't be hogging the spotlight.

The long-awaited conclusion to Kevin Smith's "New Jersey Trilogy" delivered everything that it should have, and that's a good thing, because with the success of Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Dogma, expectations for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back were very high.

The twin brother of film and TV actor Jason London, Jeremy got his start as a stuntman before making his acting debut playing a bit in sister Dedra's NBC movie "In Broad Daylight" . Brother Jason led to his next.... The twin brother of film and TV actor Jason London, Jeremy got his start as a stuntman before making his acting debut playing a bit in ...

Review: On paper, it probably didn't seem like the kind of series that was going to win Emmys: a show about a low-life who, as he notes in the opening credits, is the kind of guy who makes people nervous and wait in their car when they see him in a convenience store.

Congratulations! We made it through Week One of fall, but we aren't done planning your weekend.

Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: The Artvoice B.O.O.M! First Round Quarter Final showdown at Nietzsche's on Friday night.

Kevin Smith emerged in the first half of the '90s and became a legend. With films like Clerks , Mallrats and Chasing Amy -- all of which intertwined each others' subplots and characters -- Smith became film's grunge-era equivalent of Kurt Cobain.

Writer-director Kevin Smith has often joked about his bare-bones approach to directing when it came to his early films such as Clerks and Mallrats - if things get really exciting, he might actually move the camera.

I remember reading an interview with Kevin Smith back in 1997 in which the trench-coat-wearing writer/director/Miramax poster boy admitted that his third film, Chasing Amy , which was getting a lot of positive critical attention at the time, was actually intended to be his second.

ABC says Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be back on "The View" on Oct. 19. Hasselbeck has been off the daytime talk show since Aug.

Remember Jason and Jeremy London? They were the good-looking twin actors who starred in several indie hits in the 1990s and whose faces used to adorn the walls of many a Dose.ca editor.

Jeremy London has nine films in the pipeline and it looks like he could really use those nine paychecks -- because American Express is coming after him for almost $20,000! According to a civil suit recently filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the former " Mallrats " and " Party of Five " star owes the credit card company $19,485 -- plus interest ...

By: Erik Davis on September 22, 2009 at 11:11AM Back in the late '90s, Warner Bros.

Back in the late '90s, Warner Bros. was working on another Superman movie that was to be directed by Tim Burton off a script written by none other than Kevin Smith .

Henry is a man who drifts from town, sometimes entering lives then leaving just as quickly.

Look, it's Jay and Silent Bob! Getty Images It's 2 AM and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully-lit apartment and still on the couch.

Actor, writer, and director Ben Affleck hit the Hollywood radar in 1997 as the co-writer and co-star of "Good Will Hunting," earning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with childhood best friend Matt Damon.

DEGRASSI GOES HOLLYWOOD: D Friday at 8 p.m. on The N. "Degrassi: The Next Generation" knows how to bring the drama.

Speaking of the late John Hughes , one of his biggest acolytes is Kevin Smith, who told The Los Angeles Times last year , "Basically my stuff is just John Hughes films with four-letter words." So happens that the writer-director of Clerks , Mallrats , Chasing Amy and Dogma will bring his one-man stand-up Q&A act to Dallas on November 7 at the House ...