LETTER: The Slap will forever be in Oscar lore
April 2, 2022 - 9:00 pm
At the Oscars, Will Smith transformed a less than three-second not-very-funny “joke” that 98.5 percent of the viewing audience didn’t get and would never ever recall into a historic moment (in the entertainment universe) that 98.5 percent of the world’s population will be reminded of from now until eternity.