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  • Chris Rock: Oscars only for 'gays'- Officials with Academy concerned about choice of host

    03/05/2006 9:28:27 PM PST · by Coleus · 23 replies · 983+ views
    WND ^ | February 13, 2005
    Was the choice of comedian Chris Rock to host this year's Oscars event a mistake?That's what officials at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are said to be asking themselves in the wake of comments implying only homosexuals watch the Oscars, according to the Drudge Report.  "I never watched the Oscars. Come on, it's a fashion show," Rock recently said. "No one performs; it's not like a music show. What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one!" Rock added: "Awards for art are f---ing idiotic." Academy members are reportedly privately calling for the 39-year-old...