LETTER: The Slap will forever be in Oscar lore

Steve Wojciechowski Las Vegas

3 years ago

Chris Rock, left, and Will Smith onstage during the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on ... — Chris Rock, left, and Will Smith onstage during the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 27, 2022, in Hollywood, California. (Myung Chun/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

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.