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Must I cover the Will Smith resigns! story?

This is a story that hit the NYT about 30 seconds after I put up last night's café post. The café post, for me, says I'm down for the night, and I'll see you in the morning. Carry on the conversation without me. 

I could see that the first comment brought up the story. Yeah, I know I can put a post on top of the café post. I do that occasionally. But I am not veering from my path because Will Smith did one more thing. 

He'd like to control the narrative, and he chose this action. If I could see who advised him and hear how they gamed it out, I would be much more interested.

From the Times article:

Mr. Smith’s resignation came roughly 12 hours after Will Packer, the lead producer of the Oscars telecast... said he had learned from his co-producer, Shayla Cowan, that there were discussions of plans to “physically remove” Mr. Smith from the venue.... 

“I was advocating what Rock wanted in that time, which was not to physically remove Will Smith at that time,” Mr. Packer said. “Because as it has now been explained to me, that was the only option at that point. It has been explained to me that there was a conversation that I was not a part of to ask him to voluntarily leave.”

But then we're told:

Someone close to Mr. Rock who asked to speak anonymously because the Academy’s inquiry into the incident is ongoing said that Mr. Rock was never asked directly if he wanted Mr. Smith removed. Had he been asked, it was not clear how Mr. Rock would have responded, the person said. Mr. Rock was only asked if he wanted to press charges, and he said that he did not, the person said.

So Packer seems to have gotten that wrong.

Packer also blames Rock and Rock alone for the hair joke:

In the interview, Mr. Packer also said that Mr. Rock’s joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair was unscripted “free-styling.” “He didn’t tell one of the planned jokes,” he said of Mr. Rock....

I'm seeing an effort to encapsulate Rock and move him off into the distance. I'm guessing Smith's advisers were taking that into account and maybe influenced Packer to say that. I assume there is collusion between Smith and the Academy and there's a plan to rehabilitate him, with this resignation as a device to move the public mind into the right position. 

Mr. Packer said that, like many viewers at home, he had originally thought the slap might be part of an unplanned comedic bit, and that he was not entirely sure until he spoke with Mr. Rock backstage that Mr. Smith had actually hit the comedian. “I just took a punch from Muhammad Ali,” Mr. Packer recalled Mr. Rock telling him....

Rock said "punch"!  

Asked if, after hearing Mr. Smith’s acceptance speech, he wished that the actor had left the ceremony, Mr. Packer said that he did, noting that Mr. Smith had not used his remarks to express real contrition and apologize to Mr. Rock. “If he wasn’t going to give that speech which made it truly better, then yes, yes,” Mr. Packer said when asked if he wished Mr. Smith had left the ceremony. “Because now you don’t have the optics of somebody who committed this act, didn’t nail it in terms of a conciliatory acceptance speech in that moment, who then continued to be in the room.”

Read that twice. It's close to gobbledygook. I think Packer is saying Smith's acceptance speech was not what they'd have been hoping for it that was the reason why they let him stay. It didn't "make it truly better," so now the Academy is stuck with bad "optics." 

If the cold transcript makes Packer seem like a propagandist for Hollywood, you might, like me, want to look up the video to hear the intonation and see the demeanor. I know I did. Here:

ADDED: Watching the interview, I'm getting a stronger impression that Packer is working to help reincorporate Smith into the Hollywood community. I'm inclined to reinterpret what I called "close to gobbledygook" to mean the opposite of what I wrote above. Watch and see how the interview proceeds. Packer is trying to help Smith and the Academy and iron out the whole dispute. That is his role, and though he's not an actor — he's a producer — he knows how to play it.

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