November 2, 2007
The Pursuit of a Credyt
We picked up on this over at All Shook Down today. It seems that a San Francisco convenience store cashier (or practical-knee slapper actor) received neither credit nor pay for his appearance in Will Smith's Oscar-baiting tear jerker The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). In this Daily Show segment ripoff, he goes into detail about being chewed up by the big, bad Hollywood machine.
Also, anyone forced to appear in a scene with Mr. Smith's hyper-precocious offspring -- who wants to star in a remake of The Karate Kid, God help us all -- deserves some sort of compensation for his time, right?
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I'm pretty sure the convenience store in question is Ted's Market, on Howard between 11th and 12th. I used to eat lunch there every day. They had pictures up all over the store with the owners posing with Will Smith.