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Hoping to rebound from the Slap, film academy sets new Oscar producers

LOS ANGELES — Looking to rebound from what was widely seen as a disastrous 2022 Oscars, marred by Will Smith’s shocking altercation with Chris Rock and controversy over changes to the show, the film academy announced Saturday that Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner will serve as executive producers of the…

Los Angeles Times · Sep 17, 2022

Jada Pinkett Smith marks National Bald is Beautiful Day with striking new photo

The actress posted the image nearly six months after husband Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars for making a joke about her shaven head

Evening Standard · Sep 14, 2022

Emmys Host Kenan Thompson Predicts Conflict-Free Ceremony

Emmy Awards host Kenan Thompson and the ceremony’s producers are predicting a conflict-free zone, unlike the Oscars show that was marred by an on-stage slap. Thompson said the confrontation last March in which Will Smith attacked presenter Chris Rock over a joke directed at Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, was…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 7, 2022

Fall Preview: Is it, Maybe, Back to Normal at the Movies?

For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear. Festival red carpets are rolled out. Oscar campaigns are primed. Long-awaited blockbusters, like "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and "Avatar: The Way of Water," are poised for big box office. But after the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 30, 2022

Chris Rock ‘turned down offer to host the 2023 Oscars’ after Will Smith slap

The comedian is said to have compared returning to the Oscars to revisiting a crime scene

Evening Standard · Aug 30, 2022

Chris Rock says he has turned down offer to host Oscars again

During a standup set Rock said that to return after Will Smith attacked him at this year’s awards would be like returning to the scene of a crime

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30, 2022

Chris Rock turns down offer to host next year's Oscars after Will Smith slap controversy

He jibed how going back to the biggest night in Hollywood would be like asking Nicole Brown Simpson “to go back to the restaurant,” referencing the events that led to her death and the subsequent OJ Simpson murder trial.

Irish Mirror · Aug 30, 2022

Chris Rock 'turned down' hosting the Oscars next year after Will Smith slap

Comedian Chris Rock is said to have made a joke about being offered to host next year's Oscars during a gig in Phoenix, Arizona

Daily Mirror · Aug 30, 2022

Chris Rock says he declined offer to host Oscars next year after Will Smith slap

Rock said returning to the Oscars would be like Nicole Brown Simpson going ‘back to the restaurant’ where she left her glasses the night she was killed

The Independent UK · Aug 29, 2022

Months after that slap, Chris Rock says he turned down hosting the Oscars next year

LOS ANGELES — Five months after Will Smith slapped him onstage at the Academy Awards, stunning millions watching around the world, Chris Rock delivered another sort of slap back at the Oscars.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 29, 2022