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On his Twitter page, the Red Bank native and film director said it happened Saturday after he was seated on a Southwest Airlines flight to Burbank from San Francisco.
“Fair warning folks: If you look like me, you may be ejected from Southwest Air,” he tweeted.
A spokesperson for the airline apologized on the airline’s Twitter page, adding: “Hopefully we can make things right.”
But “Silent Bob” shot back that he was “offered” a $100 voucher from the airline “the way a john tosses a hooker a c-note after a hate-[expletive].”
It could get interesting: Smith has speaking engagements scheduled throughout the country through April. And he posted a 90-minute podcast (Click HERE).
Yes, there have been genuine Hollywood scandals, the kind that make Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton look like pikers: Hugh Grant; Woody Allen; Lana Turner’s daughter giving Johnny Stompanato the knife (if you don’t know that story, read up).
But as long as there’s been Hollywood — and in five years that’ll be a century — there have been self-generated incidents aimed purely at jump-starting the publicity machine.
In this case, Smith knew about Southwest’s “Customer of Size (COS)” policy — in fact, he said he ordinarily follows it, buying two seats. Under the policy, you pay half price on the second seat. If the plane doesn’t fill up, you get a refund.
According to the airline, Smith bought two tickets, as usual, but grabbed the last standby seat remaining on an earlier flight.
What I want to know is: Why is this suddenly an issue, Kevin, when you’ve admitted you’ve known about the policy all along? Why even get on that plane in the first place?
I can suspend disbelief, just as I have watching your earlier, wildly entertaining — and, in the case of “Chasing Amy,” touching — films.
Not this time, though.
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