It hit our little Pennsylvania town pretty hard. The Will Smith-Chris Rock fiasco, that is.
Me? I'm still shook. Just trying to make sense of it all.
Where does the blame lie?
Sure, Chris Rock shouldn’t have lobbed that verbal violence in the direction of an unsuspecting audience. But Smith did no one any favors by immediately escalating to a devastating open-handed slap. When I close my eyes I can still see it.
All week long, I’ve been trying to figure out what to tell my kids, what to tell my wife. She already knows - hopefully - that I have no plans of ever assaulting Chris Rock. It’s just not in my nature.
Beyond the immediate aftermath, the question lies - what’s next? Will we see a return to normalcy? Can Smith and Rock ever coexist in Hollywood again?
Will Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have to kill a man at the Teen Choice Awards?