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20 minutes ago, Lady Whistleup said:

Did the sound go out for anyone else?

Yes!! (I'm assuming you mean when Will Smith punched Chris Rock and the aftermath - yes, it went out here.)

WOW. Shocker. I saw that Jada looked really pissed after what Chris said but was not expecting that. And the violence in The Godfather clips was then kind of anticlimactic.

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Just now, Lady Whistleup said:

Is it too late to change the ballots so will smith doesn't have to accept the award from central booking?

It could be like Miss America!  "In the even that the winner does something stupid on the telecast, we have a backup envelope with the second-place finisher, who will take over the duties of the original winner..."

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1 minute ago, Lady Whistleup said:

Is it too late to change the ballots so will smith doesn't have to accept the award from central booking?

The accountants are backstage with the envelopes. All they have to do is call whoever does the vote tallying and invoke Article 86* to find out if Will's name is in the Best Actor envelope. 

I will say that I am 100% certain that Will's team immediately started texting him to say that the first thing out of his mouth if he wins should be an apology for the punch. If he wins and doesn't apologize he's only going to make it worse.

*Which does not exist to be clear.

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7 minutes ago, mojoween said:

Didn’t it look like Will laughed, while Jada was assuredly not laughing, and then Will got up and slapped him?  Like Will wasn’t exactly holding his wife’s honor at first.

I just rewound during the commercials, and he was laughing while Jada was doing an exaggerated eye roll, that’s why I thought it was all a bit at first. 

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1 minute ago, Lady Calypso said:

I get that Chris Rock's joke was clearly at the expense of Jada, who clearly didn't agree to it or liked it, and I get being angry over it (I think Jada's talked about feeling insecure over her alopecia) but Will's reaction? Yell at him, fine. Punching him is over the line on live TV.

I didn't even make that connection! I thought it was a joke about being in a bad movie, which all actors are sometimes. The ironic thing is, Chris (or the joke writer) would have looked like the jerk for a joke about a physical problem, but now Will looks like the jerk.

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6 minutes ago, Mediocre Gatsby said:

The uncut version from Japanese TV apparently 

 

Unless I'm mistaken, that video of the Japanese feed came to us by Timothy Burke. Who is Burke?  He's the guy that has an amazing video capture setup that apparently allows him to grab any television feed, anytime and anywhere on the planet.  First became aware of him when he was working for Deadspin. He does his job exceedly well.

I have to believe the way it played out on the Japanese clip is how it went down.  No acting involved.  I really wasn't paying all that much to the comment that set him off.

  

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