Jim Carrey sounds like a blend of Yoda, Bill Maher and Edward R. Murrow in his latest riff on the slap. Very wise, very philosopher king-like…hats off.

"It's just wrong." Jim Carrey says Will Smith had been living "beyond the bandwidth" and cracked under pressure at the #AcademyAwards pic.twitter.com/157ifJ5ibm

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Four days after the Big Slap, the iconic Smith-Rock image has been painted on a large wall in Berlin’s Mauerpark.

Dominican graffiti artist Jesus Cruz Artiles painted Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars on a wall in the Mauer Park in Berlin, Germany pic.twitter.com/GPG5UnlGgS

I’ve seen The Verdict several times over the last 40 years, and until ten minutes ago I’d never noticed Bruce Willis sitting right behind the plaintiffs during Paul Newman’s final plea to the jury. (The other red-circle guy is Tobin Bell.)

World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy is projecting a few titles for the 2022 Venice Film Festival — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Bardo, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Noah Baumbach’s White Noise, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin and Paul Schrader’s The Master Gardener.

HE’s heart goes out to poor Bruce Willis, 67, who’s been forced to retire from acting due to aphasia, a degenerative brain ailment that results in a growing inability to remember lines.

We all understand that getting older and coping with the failure of this or that vital organ can be a heartless process, but this is sadistic. In a perfect world Willis would be able to keep making “Bruce Willis movies” at least another dozen years, and then he could shift into odd character parts in his late 70s and 80s.

Now we understand why Willis made so many shitty direct-to-video movies (between 20 and 25) over the last five years. I’m very, very sorry for this extraordinary stroke of bad luck.

“Unacceptable and harmful behavior” that we need to mull over and reflect upon for…uhm, three or four weeks. Or maybe five. Or six. We will not be rushed.

Joseph Kosinski, Tom Cruise and Jerry Bruckheimer‘s Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount, 5.27) opens two months hence, and will have its first big screening in Cannes on Wednesday, 5.18. I have nothing more to say.