In the run-up to the release of Will Smith’s highly anticipated, candid memoir Will, several details about the actor’s professional and personal lives have emerged online. As excerpts from the book were carried by publications like People, it became clear that the actor was gearing up to give readers near-unprecedented and unrestricted access to his fame and family life. From Smith revealing he...
Will Smith RESIGNS from the Academy as he meets possible removal for slapping Chris Rock
Will Smith left the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in the path of his onstage assault on Chris Rock during last Sunday’s 94th Oscars. In a statement received by Variety on Friday, Smith called his actions during the tradition’ shocking, painful and inexcusable,’ adding that he would take any other consequences given by the Academy’s Board of Governors...