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Will Smith is banned for 10 years from academy events, including the Oscars

LOS ANGELES — Nearly two weeks after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars over a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Friday it is forbidding Smith from attending any academy events, including the Oscars, for 10 years.

Los Angeles Times

Will Smith resigns from Academy after Oscars slap

Will Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, five days after slapping Chris Rock onstage at the Oscars.

Tribune News Service

Can the Will Smith and Chris Rock slap live on stage force the Oscars to change their ways?

Ripples from 94th Academy Awards, the slap, and the joke that led to it, are likely to reverberate across Hollywood — an industry that has for years been trying to recover from allegations of misogyny, racism and sexual harassment.

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What does it take to be kicked out from the Oscars?

There have only been five expulsions from The Academy in it is 92-year history including a registered sex offender

Wales Online

How will the academy punish Will Smith for his Oscars slap? It has various options

LOS ANGELES — As the sting of Will Smith’s hand striking Chris Rock’s face begins to fade, a big question remains: What, if anything, will the film academy do to punish the “King Richard” Oscar winner for his inappropriate on-camera behavior?

Los Angeles Times

Did Will Smith refuse to leave? Questions swirl around that infamous Oscars slap

LOS ANGELES — On Thursday, one day after the motion picture academy announced it is launching disciplinary proceedings against Will Smith after he slapped Chris Rock during Sunday’s Oscars over a joke about his wife, questions continue to swirl around what exactly happened inside the Dolby Theatre in the fraught…

Los Angeles Times

Will Smith refused to leave Oscars after the slap. Academy vows consequences

LOS ANGELES — On Wednesday, three days after a shocking altercation at the Oscars in which Will Smith slapped Chris Rock over a joke about his wife, the motion picture academy announced that it is initiating disciplinary proceedings against Smith and said that the actor — who went on to…

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How to handle Will Smith’s slap is just one of many crises facing academy after Oscars

LOS ANGELES — If it’s true — as Denzel Washington told Will Smith moments after Smith strode onstage at the 94th Oscars and slapped Chris Rock across the face — that the devil comes for you at your highest moment, then motion picture academy officials must be wondering what Satan…

Los Angeles Times

Could the Academy take Will Smith’s Oscar back after he slapped Chris Rock?

The Academy will meet later this week to determine if action will be taken against the Oscar-winner over the incident

The Guardian - AU

Could the Academy really take Will Smith's Oscar back after he hit Chris Rock on stage?

Will Smith can expect sanctions after he hit actor Chris Rock on stage — but he's unlikely to be stripped of his Best Actor Oscar.

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Luxury mansion where four Manson murders took place listed on market for £63million

In August 1969, four members of Charles Manson's family murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate and three others at the home Tate shared with husband Roman Polanski in Beverly Hills, California

Daily Mirror

Lighting up life: Nina Childress makes glamourous female idols glow in the dark

At a colourful and exciting new exhibition in the southwestern French city of Bordeaux, France's Catherine Deneuve glows in the dark and murdered US actress Sharon Tate fills a room like a goddess while her husband, director Roman Polanski, stares on. These artworks are part of a retrospective looking back…

France 24

What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies

The focus of Joel Coen's "The Tragedy of Macbeth," now streaming on Apple TV+, naturally falls on Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, who star as an older-than-usual Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

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