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I'm with Bette !! (Original Post) Pluvious Jan 2023 OP
I think Will Smith will be invited back as a presenter, but maybe not this year FakeNoose Jan 2023 #1
I beg to differ. violence is never the answer Javaman Jan 2023 #3
He has apologized and most people have forgiven him FakeNoose Jan 2023 #4
I do not like Chris Rock... don't find him Demsrule86 Jan 2023 #5
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 #2

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
1. I think Will Smith will be invited back as a presenter, but maybe not this year
Mon Jan 30, 2023, 12:06 AM
Jan 2023

As for Chris Rock? ... hard pass. He's the one who provoked the trouble with his insulting "joke" that wasn't funny at all. If the Academy really must make an issue of this, they should invite someone who's universally liked and admired, like Tom Hanks or Harrison Ford. Just to get past the embarrassment and outrage. By next year it will have blown over.



Javaman

(62,530 posts)
3. I beg to differ. violence is never the answer
Mon Jan 30, 2023, 10:35 AM
Jan 2023

and will smiths public spectacle; was just that.

everyone gets roasted at the oscars. and if he and his wife didn't like it, they could have left, but ego and his want to win the oscar kept him there.

this sense of false bravado of "defending his wife" is pure unmitigated bullshit. do we still live in past of men having to defend the honor of "their women"?

he was a shoe in for the oscar, and if he hadn't hit Rock, he could have been the bigger person and just made a comment at the acceptance speech.

she suffers from alopecia, and so have I my entire life. for a gigantic portion of my life I was made fun of and beat up and publicly ridiculed for having no hair, but you know what? i made me tougher and a more compassionate person.

I also don't give a whit what anyone says to me regarding it. life is what you make of it and if you want to keep chasing windmills that that's a fools errand.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
4. He has apologized and most people have forgiven him
Mon Jan 30, 2023, 11:48 AM
Jan 2023

... or even if they haven't, they've decided to give him another chance.

I'm not excusing Smith's behavior. He knows it was wrong and a bad mistake. There's no need to crucify him after he sincerely apologized. Like I said, give him another year while this cools off.

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