Not sure if real...Will Smith punched Chris Rock in the face at the Oscar’s for joking about his wife.
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I didn’t think it was real until Smith returned to his seat and the verbal exchange between Chris Rock and Will Smith continued at a distance. Rock seemed genuinely shaken. Smith is in the inner circle that includes Beyonce Knowles and Lady GagGag, all of them Hollywood stars they believed we would follow. Maybe he’s feeling some stress and distress at the impending fall of the cabal and those who made him a Hollywood Prince. Hollywood people have never been less influential or less liked than they are now. That must take a toll on a pampered prince.
I watched the exchange on YouTube and I didn’t think Rock’s joke was at all offensive. It was about Rock’s wife being in a Catwoman 2 movie or something. Smith was totally out of line and I hope Rock sues the living hell out of him for it.
And it may have been meant as a slap but it wasn’t, you could hear it land and it was not a slap.
-SB
My last thought on Will Smith:
In the Movie G I Jane, the heroine is given this poem by DH Lawrence after she proves herself:
Self-pity
I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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Pinkett has been on several talk shows crying over her loss of hair.
Maybe she felt she was being accused of self pity, despite all her fame and wealth. A stretch.
Or something to distract us from today’s news? ✔️