4 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

Oh most definitely and she's the same asshat who agreed with Phylicia Rashad when she defended Cosby *barf*

This is what Janet said to Phylicia:

 

3 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I was disturbed long before Betty passed about the way so many people would use her name on social media to get clout and try to seem funny, A clout tweet every time her name was trending, morbidly obsessing over her death in a way she never would have wanted, year in, year out. This has been another level entirely of crassness, viral tweets about Will Smith hitting her and her cracking her head...it sickens me. 

 

 

I noticed this as well. Although I found it deeply aggravating, I was usually able to ignore it until she passed away. Half of those people are unlikely to have even been fans, just bandwagoners seeking attention for their posts and tweets. 

I am also seeing photos from the Academy awards program where the mix-up between Moonlight and LaLa Land being falsely attributed to the "slap".

It's a pet peeve of mine when people post and don't get their facts straight. It ends up spreading misinformation even more.

Thanks, I had truly thought she defended her, cause I remember her and PR both deleting something

Oscar ratings broken down by time period. Big spike for Will’s Oscar speech:

https://variety.com/2022/tv/ratings/oscar-ratings-will-smith-chris-rock-slap-speech-1235217263/

On 3/28/2022 at 10:56 AM, Khan said:

So.  This is what the Academy Awards has devolved into.  Black people slapping the [!@#$%^&*] out of each other.  For God's sake, it's the Oscars, people, not the Source Awards!

I'm not defending Chris Rock or his joke.  It was insensitive, it was tone-deaf and it was about 25 years too late.  (A "G.I. Jane" joke in 2022?  Really, Chris?).  But how Will Smith responded, regardless of the personal and private demons that drove him to that fateful moment, didn't just make himself look bad.  It made all Black men look bad.  You wanna defend your wife against a comedian's unfunny joke?  Fine.  Pull him aside when the cameras aren't on you and demand that he apologize to your wife.  Don't feed into racist white people's misperceptions of us as violent, out-of-control thugs who don't know how to behave in public.

Let me just counter point a little by saying that 90lbs Erica Kane slapped many a person harder. It's not like punched CR and then beat him down.  Plus Chris Rock really handled that situation with grace which I've said before. He had great control. He didn't even hit back verbally. People will see what they want to see though, so I'm sure plenty of people saw the worst.

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7 hours ago, janea4old said:

 

Sorry, Janet, but I hardly think Meryl Streep or Robert Redford cuts their own grass, lol.

3 hours ago, Juliajms said:

Let me just counter point a little by saying that 90lbs Erica Kane slapped many a person harder. 

Hell, if Will REALLY wanted to throw down (yep, it's that time of the week again):

 

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I’ve seen soooo many takes on this, but this was one of the better ones IMO:

 

Chris Rock is starting his tour. If he wasn't sold out before, he will be now!

 

Chris Rock Tickets & 2022 Ego Death Tour Dates | Vivid Seats

 

7 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

 

I've always loved Wanda. Glad she spoke the truth and didn't try covering it up like Whoopi.

25 minutes ago, reallyhateskateonlost said:

Chris Rock is starting his tour. If he wasn't sold out before, he will be now!

 

Chris Rock Tickets & 2022 Ego Death Tour Dates | Vivid Seats

All shows are sold out. They are adding more dates.

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It's like what Mama Khan always says: "God will take your worst and turn it into something better."

Now, THIS is a slap:

 

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I don't blame this guy for being mad or angry or upset, his moment(and others) was ruined

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I guess it doesn't surprise me (much) that Will took a night that was supposed to be about honoring the film industry and made it all about himself because, well, he always came across to me as that kind of jerk.  I mean, I loved watching "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" when I was younger, but that had more to do with the talent surrounding Will than with Will himself.

Also: maybe I'm wrong - I hope I'm wrong - but I feel like it'll be a long, long time before ABC allows another African-American to produce the Academy Awards.  Of course, Will Packer had no way of knowing what was going to happen, but I worry that he'll receive some of the heat from the network or the Academy nevertheless.

7 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I've always loved Wanda. Glad she spoke the truth and didn't try covering it up like Whoopi.

Or that one-trick hack Tiffany Haddish who has played it off as simply a man defending his wife's honor - as if Jada is some poor damsel in distress. Clearly those folks are biased by their personal relationships with the Smith's and don't want to be blacklisted from that circle. 

I am glad that comedians Wanda and Jim Carrey (see below) give no f.ucks and are just calling it what it is, and for speaking out about what a dangerous precedent this sets for the well-being of all comedians. Not just celebrities physically attacking them, but their nutso fans as well (many of whom are insane enough to be driven as far as murder). 

The likes of Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, and George Carlin would be appalled that we're at this point.  

 

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10 hours ago, dragonflies said:

I don't blame this guy for being mad or angry or upset, his moment(and others) was ruined

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The tweet you posted has since been deleted by its author.  I can see from the source code that this was its URL:
https://twitter.com/jazzbeezy/status/1509323149820805125

"jazzbeezy" is the twitter account of producer Joseph Monish Patel, one of the co-producers (with Questlove) of the "Summer of Soul" documentary which won the Oscar.

What did Patel tweet?  Apparently it was a thread of a few tweets. I found copies online.

Here's an article summarizing it:
https://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2022/03/31/news/summer-of-soul-producer-says-will-smith-and-chris-rock-stained-the-oscars-2629980/

Summer Of Soul won the Oscar for best documentary feature at the 94th Academy Awards, and was produced by The Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson alongside Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein.

The award was presented to the team by Rock, moments after he was slapped by Smith for a joke about the actor’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

Patel tweeted ...

“What I didn’t hear in that moment walking to stage but was told of afterwards is what Chris Rock said when reading our name from the winner’s card,” he wrote in a Twitter thread.

“The winner is ‘Summer of Soul… Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson and… 4 white guys.’ WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F***?????”

He explained: “The reason that makes me SO SO VERY ANGRY is because I was so proud to be one of a handful of South Asians to have ever won an Oscar in the history of the award.

“I was ecstatic that I was the 3RD South Asian to win that night – after Riz and Aneil Karia won earlier in the night for The Long Goodbye.

“3 South Asians winning on the same night – that’s never happened before! And it’s meaningful! It’s history!

“I’m a big boy – I can take a joke. Comedians make jokes. But not in that moment. What a shitty, disrespectful thing to do.

“So I’m angry. Angry at Will Smith. Angry at Chris Rock. Angry for me. Angry for Ahmir. Angry for my fellow filmmakers.”

Patel added that he “didn’t have the stomach” to watch the ceremony back later.

“I probably never will. Thank you, Chris – You absolute f****** d***.

“What both Will AND Chris did really stained what should have been a beautiful moment for us.”

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Here is a picture of the Summer of Soul team of producers holding their Oscars:

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Patel later deleted his twitter thread.  And tweeted this instead:
 

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