Time (May 17, 1999) p.99
WAS THIS HOW THOREAU DID IT?
Nature can be so inspiring. While skiing in Aspen, Colo., last year,
actor WILL SMITH and director Paul Hunter contemplated the surrounding
mountains and realized the music video for Smith's forthcoming film
Wild Wild West had to be big. As it turns out, big was an
understatement. The final product is seven minutes long, and features
40 dancers, action sequences scored by a 50-piece orchestra and cameos
by Stevie Wonder, Babyface, Enrique Iglesias and a group of tarantulas
imported from Africa. "I've been working on this since December and
sleeping in the editing bay the past three nights," Hunter said last
week as he rushed to finish the video in time for its debut this week.
Maybe next time he should consider vacationing in Kansas.
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