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Could Chris Rock drop out as Oscars host over increasing calls to boycott Academy Awards?
New York Daily News ^ | January 18,2016 | BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ, ETHAN SACKS

Posted on 01/18/2016 4:46:35 PM PST by Hojczyk

upcoming Academy Awards telecast may be caught between Chris Rock and a hard place.

The comic actor is facing pressure to bow out as host of the 88th annual Oscars — with less than six weeks to go before the Feb. 28 telecast — over the mounting calls for boycotting the awards in response to the lack of diversity among the Oscar nominees.

On Monday’s holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., both Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they would not be attending the Academy Awards to protest a second straight year without a black actor receiving a single nomination.

I don't think Chris would bail — if anything, this gives him the world's biggest platform and an excellent area for jokes that only he can do,” Dave Boone, who wrote nine Oscar telecasts and was the head writer for the 2015 edition, told the Daily News.

“Years ago when Whoopi was hosting, (scandal-scarred director Eli) Kazan was getting the lifetime achievement award. I gave her a line, ‘I though the blacklist was me and Hattie McDaniel.’ At the time, it was a joke that only Whoopi could do.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: academyawards; blacks; chrisrock; daveboone; elikazan; ethansacks; hattiemcdaniel; hollywood; jadapinkettsmith; joedziemianowicz; martinlutherkingjr; mlkday; oscars; snub; spikelee; whoopigoldberg
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To: Hojczyk

It’s newsworthy to ask if he “could”? Please. Check back with us if he does. No great loss anyway. The show must go on!


21 posted on 01/18/2016 4:59:08 PM PST by Kudsman (Restore the Republic, repeal the 17th.)
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To: Billthedrill
"Show biz kids making movies of themselves..."

Perfect line.

22 posted on 01/18/2016 4:59:35 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hojczyk

I detest Chris Rock


23 posted on 01/18/2016 5:00:07 PM PST by wardaddy (Save western civilization and save the world....lose it & it's a dark ages unknown to human history)
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To: Hojczyk

I hope these two groups destroy each other.

Maybe Rock and the rest should start the Boscars, kind of like Kwanzaa and Christmas.


24 posted on 01/18/2016 5:01:59 PM PST by bkopto
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To: Hojczyk

I think he’ll keep the job. But the censors had better stay alert and ready.


25 posted on 01/18/2016 5:03:17 PM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

What is the over/under on the number of anti-Republican remarks that are going to be made during the Oscars?

(We here don’t consider Republicans to be conservatives, but Hollywood does)


26 posted on 01/18/2016 5:06:23 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: wardaddy

I used to like Chris, before he went PC.


27 posted on 01/18/2016 5:06:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Billthedrill

So another meeting of the Mutual Admiration Society is beset by internal discord.


28 posted on 01/18/2016 5:07:00 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Hojczyk

You beat me to it.

Those were my exact words.

I haven’t been to the movies for 25 years.


29 posted on 01/18/2016 5:07:36 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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They need to bring a black award in with the most dripping condescension possible.


30 posted on 01/18/2016 5:09:47 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Hojczyk

Always group think. If you’re black in today’s America you’re not allowed to think and do for yourself unless you want to be called an Uncle Tom, a Sambo, and a sellout by fellow blacks. It’s that group mentality of being a victim that keeps blacks from prospering, and don’t think the white powers that be in the Democratic Party don’t know this. They keep blacks indebted to the party by playing the race card and demonizing any black man or woman who dares to defy the liberal plantation.


31 posted on 01/18/2016 5:10:11 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: wardaddy

Isn’t he the one who called obama “our lord and savior” at some black gathering a year or so ago? If so, pi$$ on him.


32 posted on 01/18/2016 5:10:18 PM PST by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: Hojczyk

Where is that “Well, bye” graphic?


33 posted on 01/18/2016 5:12:22 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: NCC-1701

I think that was Jamie Foxx.


34 posted on 01/18/2016 5:13:40 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: Hojczyk
Chris, sometimes I forget how strong your people are.
---- Ms. Morello
35 posted on 01/18/2016 5:15:13 PM PST by Old Yeller (Obama is winning the war on terror when you realize he is on the side of the enemy.)
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To: Hojczyk

The level of micro photography needed to detect how little I care about these whiny rich permanently offended racist turds has yet to be invented.


36 posted on 01/18/2016 5:16:01 PM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: wardaddy
I detest Chris Rock

Yes, but Rock is one of those objective blacks who will not hesitate to criticize other blacks. I love the joke about the nightclubs, when good blacks just want to go out but then the "N-words" come in and always tearing it down and getting kicked out.

All of this is just Kabuki theater. People like Lee are just shaking down Hollywood for a few more crumbs.

37 posted on 01/18/2016 5:16:28 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Hojczyk

LOL

So, they want a black guy to bow out and have zero representation?

Makes no sense.

Besides, don’t they have a racist award ceremony of their own and do they want to be known as affirmative action winners or accomplished entertainers?

What movies were even award worthy that had a black person in a relevant category.

“Blackish” is funny as hell but that’s the Emmy’s


38 posted on 01/18/2016 5:16:54 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

I dunno, I look at the movies that were nominated and I’m thinking “Straight Outta Compton” is probably about as good as any of them.

Granted, that’s not saying much.


39 posted on 01/18/2016 5:20:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hojczyk; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; Perdogg; ...
Re: Could Chris Rock drop out as Oscars host over increasing calls to boycott Academy Awards?

Now, now-- Just wondering here just how long it will be before... we will not be able to elect a President, Senator or Congressperson nor appoint anyone to a Cabinet Post unless they are Black?

40 posted on 01/18/2016 5:22:52 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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