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FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)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)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)... 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.
Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)Funny.