Will Smith

I knew there was something I liked about Will Smith…aside from his winning smile and rocking bod. I am thrilled to report there is at least one Hollywood hotshot who isn’t interested in jumping into the deep end of the Scientology crazy pool.

Hollywood.com reports that we have Will’s grandmama to thank for this last stand against Hubbard and his aliens.

Will Smith has turned his back on pal Tom Cruise’s efforts to convert him to Scientology because he doesn’t want to upset his late grandmother.

“I was raised in a Baptist household and my grandmother would get up out of her casket (if I became a Scientologist).”

I don’t know that Grandma would appreciate the slam on organized religion in general, but I’m pretty sure she’d give Tom a good hard thump with her Bible if the toothy-media magnet tried to clear Grandma Smith’s thetans.

Will Smith has revealed that he and wife Jada Pinkett-Smith are homeschooling their children. According to Smith, he has no need for teachers. Here’s the quote from Reader’s Digest that is sure to be included in your next PTA newsletter:

The date of the Boston Tea Party does not matter. I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

Umm, if I ever fly on the space shuttle (stay with me people, it could happen) and I see the pilot thumbing through a how-to book before take-off…well, I’d need a few more of those blue bags and a change of underwear. Come on, Will. I’ve read a cookbook, but I still burn the chicken.