ACTOR WILL SMITH HONORED

Actor Will Smith and his wife/actress Jada Pinkett Smith attend the 2006 Museum of the Moving Image salute to Will Smith held in New York on December 3, 2006.(UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)

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