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Reaction to the Academy Awards incident has veered from acceptance to outrage – and even boredom. With an Oscar-tipped movie in the pipeline for 2023, the star has many options, including baring his soul on a chatshowWhen Will Smith picked up his Oscar on Sunday, it felt as if he was at the pinnacle of his career, despite his on-stage assault of the comedian Chris Rock an hour earlier.Amid a standing ovation, Smith tearfully explained his actions as those of a man seeking to protect his family from abuse – Rock had referred to his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith’s baldness, even though she had recently made public a diagnosis of alopecia. Continue reading...