And the big news from the 94th Academy Awards held last March 27 is that Best Actor nominee Will Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock after the comedian cracked a joke about Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett-Smith. It was for real. Not very nice. And I always thought Smith was a nice guy.
• Former Attorney General William Barr writes in a new memoir that former President Donald Trump's "self-indulgence and lack of self control" cost him the 2020 election and says "the absurd lengths to which he took his 'stolen election' claim led to the rioting on Capitol Hill." In the book, "One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General," Barr also calls on his fellow Republicans to pick someone else as the party's nominee for 2024, calling the prospect of another run by Trump "dismaying." "Donald Trump has shown he has neither the temperament nor persuasive powers to provide the kind of positive leadership that is needed," Barr writes. The memoir defends his own actions in the Trump administration that provoked criticism. Barr was long considered an ally of Trump's, but they fell out toward the end of the administration when Barr refused to go along with Trump's claims that the election h