"Bad Boys" starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence does have an edge of violence but the promotional emphasis was on the comic appeal.

CNN: Black films venture beyond ghetto violence

Bay sat down with his stars, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, and hammered out some bits to make the movie funnier and started shooting.

FORBES: Celebrity 100

Smith owns a four-bedroom house in North Lawrence and a small apartment in Jining (600 miles into the interior from Shanghai), but he is essentially a full-time road warrior.

FORBES: The Jobs Gambit

CNN's Chris Lawrence and Nunu Japaridze reported from Washington, Dan Merica and Matt Smith contributed to this report, and Mark Morgenstein wrote this story in Atlanta.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Well known at the high court, Smith was a Washington insider, who would become the legal face of gay rights where Lawrence and Garner could not.

NEWYORKER: Extreme Makeover

In an announcement late Monday, the company said that Google.org director Lawrence "Larry" Brilliant would become Google's Chief Philanthropy Evangelist, and Megan Smith, currently head of new business development at Google, would become general manager of Google.org.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Oliver Smith is a journalist who was named AITO Young Travel Writer of the Year for his article In Search of Lawrence's Arabia, in the May issue of Lonely Planet Magazine.

BBC: An Icelandic journey to the centre of the earth