Enjoying the view from Limbo
“With all the atrocities and the humanitarian crisis ongoing in Ukraine, how can anyone care about something so insignificant as Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards?” So say many self-important voices today, as they attempt to show their moral superiority over those who dare to care about this little Oscars story during a war. On its face, the criticism rings...
Denzel Washington, who outdid himself at the Academy Awards in his career-defining performance as a fake mediator between an unprovoked assailant and his victim, and then as a fake crier in sympathy with Will Smith’s temptation by the devil — who, he supposedly told Smith with fake sagacity, “comes for you” at your highest moment — has now attempted to take the most...
Random musings on the piddling celebrity ugliness of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the Academy Awards show: What a wonderful distraction this has made for people who thought the invasion of Ukraine was great fun until it started to look like an actual war, rather than one of those tasty crisis-of-the-week things that, when the dust settles, dutifully leaves everything that matters...
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