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Every now and then, something happens on live TV that becomes an indelible part of our pop-culture experience. Whether we’re talking about Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl halftime show “wardrobe malfunction,” Tom Cruise’s enthusiastic couch-jumping on Oprah or Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift’s Grammy acceptance speech, these moments become watersheds for our ongoing conversations about values, decorum our expectations of celebrity behavior.
Well, now we can add “The Slap” to our list.
Even if you didn’t watch or had no interest in this year’s Academy Awards, Will Smith’s shocking slap of presenter Chris Rock (due to a joke by Rock about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith) has instantly become a conversational...