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JASON MEWES DOING IT CLEAN AND SOBER.


Byline: - Bob Strauss

It's hardly a Kevin Smith movie without Jay and Silent Bob, the respectively motor-mouthed and near-mute drug dealers who've provided comic relief comic relief
n.
A humorous or farcical interlude in a serious literary work or drama, especially a tragedy, intended to relieve the dramatic tension or heighten the emotional impact by means of contrast.
 and surprising insight in ``Clerks,'' ``Mallrats,'' ``Chasing Amy,'' ``Dogma'' and the cockeyed epic ``Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.''

But the loquacious lo·qua·cious  
adj.
Very talkative; garrulous.



[From Latin loqux, loqu
 half of the duo, Jason Mewes (Smith himself plays Bob), was high as a kite -- or jonesing to be -- during most of those productions.

Sober for three years this past April, Mewes, 32, explains how shooting ``Clerks II'' was an entirely different experience for him.

``In the past, I was always ready to just bolt out Verb 1. bolt out - leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"
beetle off, run off, run out, bolt
 and get high,'' Mewes recalls. ``If we'd do two takes, I'd go, `Dude, that's fine.' Really, I didn't know if it was fine, but in my head I just wanted to go back to my trailer to do more drugs.

``The big difference this time was I was waking up early and looking forward to working. And I'd hang out after.''

Mewes' old New Jersey buddy Smith certainly noticed the difference.

``It was a different beast altogether this time,'' the director says of the actor, who has lived off and on in Smith's home for years at a time.

Mewes says that what made him decide to return from L.A. to Jersey -- where there was an outstanding warrant that would likely lead to a long stint in rehab -- was rejection by the one surrogate family he had been able to count on his whole adult life.

``Of course, it was a combination of things,'' reflects Mewes, whose single, drug-addict mother died from AIDS complications. ``But the biggest thing was, I went to Kevin's house on Thanksgiving. I knocked on the door, and no one in the family would come to say hi to me except for Kevin. And even he was like, `Look, I came down to say happy Thanksgiving, but it really hurts for me to see you like this.' Then he teared up, gave me a hug and went back inside. That was a big eye-opener.''

Mewes enrolled in a four-day detox de·tox
v.
To subject to detoxification.

n.
A section of a hospital or clinic in which patients are detoxified.
 program that week. When he came out, a friend offered the withdrawing addict Any individual who habitually uses any narcotic drug so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so drawn to the use of such narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his or her drug use.  a choice between grams of dope or a ride back to Jersey. Mewes got in the car and turned himself in.

Now he's even co-starring with Paris Hilton Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.  in the upcoming romantic comedy ``Bottom's Up.''

But he'll always be the lovably loud-mouthed Loud´-mouthed`

a. 1. Having a loud voice; talking or sounding noisily; noisily impudent or offensive.

Adj. 1. loud-mouthed - given to loud offensive talk
 Jay.

``Jay just says things that people think but are afraid to say themselves,'' Mewes says of the character's popularity. ``It's that, and the pothead pot·head  
n. Slang
One who habitually smokes marijuana.

Noun 1. pothead - someone who smokes marijuana habitually
head - a user of (usually soft) drugs; "the office was full of secret heads"
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Date:Jul 19, 2006
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