{"id":426947,"date":"2022-04-05T02:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-time-to-move-on-from-the-will-smith-slap-drama\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T02:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:40:04","slug":"its-time-to-move-on-from-the-will-smith-slap-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-to-move-on-from-the-will-smith-slap-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"#It&#8217;s time to move on from the Will Smith slap drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a257218c61d6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a257218c61d6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-to-move-on-from-the-will-smith-slap-drama\/#%E2%80%9CIts_time_to_move_on_from_the_Will_Smith_slap_drama%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;It&#8217;s time to move on from the Will Smith slap drama&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-to-move-on-from-the-will-smith-slap-drama\/#Will-ing_to_move_on\" >Will-ing to move on?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-to-move-on-from-the-will-smith-slap-drama\/#Family_sacrifices\" >Family sacrifices<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-to-move-on-from-the-will-smith-slap-drama\/#Behind_the_music\" >Behind the music<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CIts_time_to_move_on_from_the_Will_Smith_slap_drama%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to move on from the Will Smith slap drama&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Cindy Adams\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/cindy-adams.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Will-ing_to_move_on\"><\/span><strong>Will-ing to move on?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You may disagree with me. Many do. My editors barely agree with me. But this is my space so, to concur or not to concur \u2014 that is the question. Here\u2019s the answer:<\/p>\n<p>Let the Oscars stop self-flagellating already. Today\u2019s world is a universe of agitation. Eastern Europe, Washington, DC, floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes,\u00a0Hunter Biden, no patriotism, no respect, no toilet paper.<\/p>\n<p>Being human beings not Academy Award execs, we know\u00a0Will Smith\u00a0has to live with his stupidity forever. Becoming a forever card-carrying dumb ass is enough already. So what? Haven\u2019t we all done some hideously stupid awful thing we\u2019re ashamed of? That we regret? And can never take back?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0Chris Rock\u2019s cheek got healed and his A-1 career\u2019s zooming higher than Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscars have had other 4F jerks.\u00a0Sacheen Littlefeather\u00a0accepting Brando\u2019s Oscar,\u00a0Travolta\u00a0not knowing the singer\u2019s name, David Niven on camera as a naked guy runs by,\u00a0Warren Beatty\u00a0doing whateverthehell he did a few years ago and on and on. And now those insect brains are already having meetings about 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Besides more cr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y films we didn\u2019t see and emcees we don\u2019t crave, they\u2019re demanding diversity. Not great quality films. Not even civilization\u2019s greatest actors. Just more types like maybe that Gulliver of talent\u00a0Pete Davidson.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re hot to include countries where English is a foreign language, nations that have trees but no TVs and spotlighting some indigenous disease that even\u00a0Fauci\u00a0can\u2019t eff over \u2014 like seniors from Madagascar who suffer dry cuticles.<\/p>\n<p>Look, Will Smith, A-1 actor, raised a fine family, beautiful wife. Whatever his personal or marital difficulties, he has to live with them. We don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Neither do TV viewers who now love the Academy Awards as heartily as they adore that natural-color redhead who parades as\u00a0Biden\u2019s interpreter \u2014 psock-it-to-me-Psaki.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Family_sacrifices\"><\/span><strong>Family sacrifices<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sveta, 64 Carmine St., restaurant, a West Village spot, flies Ukrainian flags. Inside, while her family suffers devastation,\u00a0Svetlana Savchitz\u00a0cries.<\/p>\n<p>Sveta\u2019s two sisters, dogs, cats and 12 relatives are surviving in one tiny house in a small village. To feed people and pets, a sister went to Kharkiv to trade goods for food. Scary. Explosions and dead bodies everywhere.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/sveta-restaurant.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Alan Aguichev, the owner of Ukrainian restaurant Sveta, with his mother Svetlana Savchitz.\" class=\"wp-image-21779909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/sveta-restaurant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/sveta-restaurant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/sveta-restaurant.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Alan Aguichev, the owner of Ukrainian restaurant Sveta, with his mother Svetlana Savchitz.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kevin C. Downs for The New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having emigrated here, Sveta opened in Queens. The rent raised. Her restaurant closed. The staff loyal despite shrunken pay. Now, downtown, her son created a trendy to-go frozen drink idea in a plastic pouch and fur coats provided for outdoor seating. The restaurant has flowers, tchotchkes. The food\u2019s A-1. The prices reasonable. If you go, leave some borscht and chicken Kiev for me.<\/p>\n<p>Skype, which won\u2019t always work, is how Sveta communicates with her family.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Behind_the_music\"><\/span><strong>Behind the music<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>So we had the Grammys. More singers coming:\u00a0Mariah Carey,\u00a0Annie Lennox\u00a0and\u00a0Mickey Stevenson\u00a0to be honored June 16, Marriott Marquis. Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mickey-stevenson.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Mickey Stevenson is set to be honored at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in June.\" class=\"wp-image-21779934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mickey-stevenson.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mickey-stevenson.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mickey-stevenson.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mickey Stevenson is set to be honored at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in June.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stevenson began with Motown\u2019s\u00a0Berry Gordy, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, Four Tops and\u00a0Stevie Wonder. In 2020,\u00a0Whoopi\u00a0introduced his song \u201cI Can\u2019t Breathe.\u201d His coming musical on women of color is \u201cSang Sista\u2019 Sang\u201d about Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Dorothy Dandridge, Josephine Baker, Mahalia Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s been said: \u201cGod gave you the gift. Mickey makes you do your best.\u201d\u00a0Smokey Robinson\u00a0calls him \u201cA street cat wheeler-dealer.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p>Putin\u00a0alone could have the biggest zoo in the world. All anyone has to do is build a fence around him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Said everywhere and not only in New York, kids, not only in New York.<\/strong>\u00a0\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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