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William Christopher Smith Jr, Son of Caroline, a school administrator and William Christopher Smith Sr., a refrigeration engineer was born on 25th September 1968 in West Philadelphia. His parents divorced when he was 13. He never had any aim of going to college, in spite of having beauteous high SAT scores and been offered a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), even though he was admitted to a pre technology program. He was raised a Baptist. He was the second among four children. He was a bright child with a natural charm which earned him the nickname “Prince” while he was a Philly’s Legendary Overbrook High School. His was from a middle class family and he was brought up in a completely cosmopolitan environment, which consisted of Catholics, jaws, whites, blacks and Muslims. He was a bright student and signed with Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School in Philadelphia.

Music was his passion and he started out rapping at the age of 12 manufacturing his semi iconic style. He met Jeffrey A Townes and they soon begun to carry out together as DJ Jazzy and the Fresh Prince and became very popular. He was on the verge of getting bankrupt in 1989 when he was offered a sitcom by NBC based on his life in Beverly Hills. The sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” was a huge success and went on for six years, Smith set himself the goal of getting the biggest movie star in the world.

In 1996 he starred in Roland Emmerich’s ‘Independence Day” which was a massive blockbuster and established smith as a Box office star. In 1989 he starred in Enemy of the State with Gene Hackman and later in a flop movie “The Wild Wild West”.

In 2005 he entered the Guinness book of World records for attending a record breaking premieres in a 24 hour time span.

He stood at number one box office draw in Hollywood in December 2008, for the success of the movie “I am The Legend” freed in 2007. The opening of the movie was the biggest ever for a film freed in U.S. for the duration of December.

IN 2007 he was recognized at Grauman’s Chinese theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Smith left an Imprint of his hands and feet outside the world widely known and esteemed theatre in front of some fans. He has been chosen as America’s top most arousing and attention holding people of 2008 for a Barbara Walters ABC particular that was aired in 2008.

He is planning to star in the feature film remake of the television series “It Takes a Thief”.

President of America Barack Obama has wished that if ever a film were to be made with regards to his life His percentage will have to be played by Smith because “he has the ears”. Smith is presently working on a film titled The Last Pharaoh in which he is playing the role of Taharqa

Smith is married to Jada Pinket smith and he has three children, he and his family reside in the star island in the Miami Beach, Florida and in Los Angeles, Stockholm and Sweden.

Smith studied Scientology extensive and has respects for all religions; He has donated to charitable establishment of all the religions and has set up a primary elementary school in Calabasas, California which has attracted a lot of speculation and controversy over it is use of study technology, a engineering science formulated by the founder of scientology.

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Sean Courtney Prime-Time
By A
Returning from a four-year ivory-hunt in the hinterland, Sean Courtney is plunged directly into the Boer War. We follow Sean’s military career all around the conflict, with the machinations of his rival twin-brother, now a colonel, always lurking in the shadows. Wilbur Smith has done his exploration here, the story is painstakingly rectify historically, and it gives the reader a very good picture of the galore subtle differences in meaning or opinion or attitude that lay at the heart of the Boer War. Given the sheer volume and span of Smith’s writing, obviously, a heap of characters are treated more superficially than others. The turn-of-the-century Sean Courtney is an exception. He is somebody the reader veritably gets to know. This is a hero for sure, but nonetheless one that is also fraught with weaknesses and flaws that serve to give the reputation credibility. “The Sound of Thunder” is one of the cornerstones for the reader who wants to follow the Courtney dynasty. The key members of the cast that is to follow originate here. Also, the beginnings of the business empire of the Courtney’s appear in this novel. You may read this as an action novel or a history lesson or both, you’ll take delight in it regardless. The good news is: there is more to come!

3 of 3 humans found the following review helpful.
Simply the best
By James E. Trott
I read a lot and came all over Wilbur Smith when my next door neighbor held speaking of him. My ideas of African adventure were far got rid of from what Smith writes about. If you like DeMille, Flynn, Shaara, and the like you will love Smith. The back cover of his books says it the best. “Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks versus whom others are compared.” Just make sure you read these in order or you will be lost, only sad when the set comes to end.

21 of 30 persons found the following review helpful.
Europeans in Africa
By S. Brand
The Sound of Thunder is apparently the sequel to When the Lion Feeds, which I exhaustively enjoyed. I was looking forward to continuing the story of the explosive kinship among Sean and Garrick Courteney, but was somewhat disheartened by the lengthy section of the book consecrated to war. I found myself reading quickly through the elements that dealt with war scheme and killing, and disturb by a good deal of of the grisly details of the way men and horses suffered and died.

I did learn, however, something when it comes to the Boer War, and was struck how two European nations (the English and the Dutch) had invaded Africa, and then set to killing off each other for control of it, a land which wasn’t theirs to get started with.

Getting beyond the war scenes, when the Courteney brothers return home, for me, the juicier, more satisfying percentage begins. Sean Courteney, the main character, is in truth rather a character, an improbable hero who is not always noble in thought or action. He most times gets drunk and gets into fights, but other than as supposed or expected he’s simple, honorable straightforward, and rather lovable. Unfortunately there’s a big misunderstanding amidst him and his brother Garrick which has caused an ugly section amongst them. In this book, it seems that the troubles they share will be passed on to the next generation, for there is enmity amid Sean’s children, who are unknowlingly half-brothers. Sean’s devilish son Dirk is a disappointment to him, whereas Michael makes him proud. Having read this book, I am set to find out what happens amongst them in the next book, A Sparrow Falls.

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