Tame Oscars Ceremony Focuses on Last Year’s Nasty Slap
The ceremony, guarded by an Academy ‘crisis team,’ mostly avoided political lectures, with a few Will Smith jokes punctuating the usual overlong and dull event.

“If it bleeds, it leads” is the old newsman’s maxim, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is betting that in a pinch, a slap will do. Despite Will Smith being banned from attending this year’s Academy Awards ceremonies, Hollywood decided to keep front and center the actor’s ratings-grabbing moment from last year.
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