Will Smith blasts Oscars for lack for diversity and says he'll be skipping awards ceremony [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | January 21, 2016 | Snejana Farberov

[C19fan]

Will Smith broke his silence this morning about the controversy surrounding his wife’s Oscar boycott, saying that he also won’t be attending this year’s ceremony because he believes that Hollywood is ‘going in the wrong direction’ when it comes to diversity. The 47-year-old star of Concussion sat down with ABC’s Robin Roberts on Good Morning America to share his thoughts on this year’s overwhelmingly white Academy Award nominations, and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s videotaped call to action ‘I think that diversity is the American superpower. That's why we're great,’ he told Roberts.

[Salvavida]

Stay home and be black. A tragedy when your existence is bent on being a skin color.

[N. Theknow]

Movie is Tombstone. Actor is E. Powers Booth. Line is said with total disdain for Wyatt Warp and his brothers by the character Curly Bill the leader of the Cowboys.

[Fireone]

Will who?

[Vic S]

Thanks, now we know. Like your tagline.

[Cobra64]

Who cares? No one I know watches.

[atc23]

Tombstone - probably the best take on what really led to not only the killing of those guys at the corral but also the return and revenge killing of the perpetrators by Wyatt and his little gang - great movie

[Dagnabitt]

FWIW, "trans" actor/actress Alexis Arquette is making some eyebrow-raising claims about Will Smith and his wife, of the "living a lie" sort:

http://thesource.com/2016/01/19/breaking-alexis-arquette-goes-in-on-will-and-jada-smith-for-oscar-boycott/

[Liberty Valance]

http://oscar.go.com/nominees

[Dilbert San Diego]

Thanks for info. I’ve seen that pic of the dude saying bye posted here many times on different threads but didn’t tknow where it came from.

[bgill]

Both his kids are so far out in lala land they made Whacko Jacko appear sane. They are scary freakazoids.

[minnesota_bound]

In his films he always insults white people with what he thinks is a joke.
He is grating.

[DPMD]

I suppose this means he’ll be avoiding the red carpet ride and sneaking in the back door, with the other boycotters.

[Stentor]

Will, why don’t you take a couple of years off, take a symbol for a name, call yourself the actor known as Will and disappear into well deserved obscurity.

[minnesota_bound]

From Rush

[atc23]

You know, after Tombstone, the Arizona Territorial government had a warrant for Earp's arrest and he was never caught in Arizona again. I'm sure he wanted to go back after his baby brother, Warren was gunned down by another drunk in a bar fight in Willcox in 1910.

Earp was later to live in San Diego playing the ponies at Del Mar - My grandfather saw him referee a prize fight in San Francisco in about 1907

[SoFloFreeper]