Will Smith and the Oscars Enter the Speed Force

Jeremy Fassler
6 min readMar 28, 2022

Will Smith slapped a guy. Let’s just get that out of the way right now. Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on national television after Rock joked that Jada Pinkett Smith looked like she was going off to star in G.I. Jane 2 because of her bald head (she actually has alopecia.) Five years ago, people asked where we were when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway gave Best Picture to the wrong movie. From now on, we’ll…

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.