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Will Smith just threw a $50m punch
- Thread starter Biggbass
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I am going to age myself here, but the best host ever to the Academy Awards show was Johnny Carson. He did it with class. Just sayin.
Even the pretense of "classiness" has been completely absent from the celebrity machine for at least the last 20 years. Nothing left but starlets on the red carpet with their assets hanging out and their unsavory escorts. At least when Debbie, Eddie, Liz, Mike, and Dick engaged in various adulteries they PRETENDED to behave like adults.
Apologies if this has been posted already but here's an old clip from the Arsenio Hall show where Will makes fun of bassist John B. Williams:
You typed "We live in a time when many people understand that words are equivalent to physical violence"
Words are NOT the equivalent of physical violence, it's absurd on it's face and an entirely false statement. Not picking a fight just stating the obvious...
It was a quote from an interview in portuguese translated by Google for English.
Maybe I'm missing something in the translation, but I completely agree with you.
What I meant by quoting that sentence is that some people seem to think they can respond to words with violence, which, of course, they can not.
Does the sentence in English imply the contrary?
Don't be, because I didn't, and, well, as I said, it's either of two possibilities.
I'm not buying any of this, did they dust Rock's cheek for Fresh Prints?
Nicely played.I'm not buying any of this, did they dust Rock's cheek for Fresh Prints?
Well, Bob Hope has hosted the Oscars nineteen times (more than anyone else), beginning in 1940. There might have been other comedians before him but I'm not sure. Comedians make a pretty obvious choice as hosts: they are used to working in front of crowds, they are used to engaging directly with crowds, they are typically comfortable with a degree of improvisation and they tend to help with the entertainment aspect of the ceremony. And, of course, there's a long tradition of comedy in film. It's unlikely that the trend of hiring comedians as hosts for the Oscars is going to fade any time soon. Heck, this year two of the three hosts were comedians (Chris Rock wasn't a host, just a presenter).
As for the standing ovation, I wouldn't be too quick to draw any conclusions from that.
He threw his wife? I thought he was all about defending her.
