Chris Rock is turning into a professional at avoiding “The Slap.”
Sources say that Rock has been carrying headphones round his SoHo neighborhood — not as a result of he’s pumping the brand new Kylie Minogue album, “Infinite Disco” — however as a result of he’s hoping it dissuades the general public from speaking to him concerning the world’s most well-known mood tantrum.
For sure, final month Will Smith climbed on stage on the Oscars and slapped Rock — who was presenting an award — for quipping that his spouse, Jada Pinkett Smith, resembled Demi Moore when she had a buzzcut in “G.I. Jane.” (Pinkett Smith just lately had her head shaved as a result of she affected by alopecia).
And Rock is discovering that individuals are fairly eager to share their opinions concerning the matter. “It seems to be like he’s listening to music,” laughed an insider, “but it surely’s simply in order that no one approaches him.
He’s additionally having to deftly dodge the difficulty on stage. We’re instructed that Rock made an unannounced look Tuesday evening on the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, the place — considerably inevitably — he was heckled concerning the jaw-dropping incident.
Throughout the handful of units he’s executed because the Oscars, Rock has made clear that he doesn’t wish to joke concerning the second, as a result of he’s “processing it.”
However we’re instructed throughout Tuesday’s present a man within the viewers yelled, “We gained’t slap you!”
“Chris is a veteran,” mentioned a spy, “He made gentle of it and moved on.”
For his half, Smith was banned from attending all Academy occasions, together with the Oscars for the following ten years. Most just lately, he was noticed in Mumbai, India the place sources say he’s on a “religious journey” doing yoga and meditating. In the meantime, sources instructed Web page Six just lately that he nonetheless hasn’t personally reached out to Rock to apologize.
