{"id":69261,"date":"2016-01-24T00:55:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69261"},"modified":"2016-01-24T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T05:55:17","slug":"oscar-producer-rock-rewriting-oscar-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/24\/oscar-producer-rock-rewriting-oscar-monologue\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar producer: Rock rewriting Oscar monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69262\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/479px-Chris_Rock_WE_2012_Shankbone.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69262\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/479px-Chris_Rock_WE_2012_Shankbone.jpg\" alt=\"Oscars host Chris Rock (Photo from Wikipedia\/David Shankbone)\" width=\"479\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/479px-Chris_Rock_WE_2012_Shankbone.jpg 479w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/479px-Chris_Rock_WE_2012_Shankbone-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscars host Chris Rock (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Rock\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>\/David Shankbone)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin says host Chris Rock is hard at work rewriting his material for next month\u2019s Oscar show.<\/p>\n<p>Hudlin told \u201cEntertainment Tonight\u201d on Saturday that Rock is eager to host the 88th Academy Awards on Feb. 28, even as a few black celebrities have decided not to attend the show for its lack of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Hudlin said Rock had written a draft for the show, but threw it out and started anew as \u201cthings got a little provocative and exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he expects Rock to make jokes about the OscarsSoWhite hashtag, and that the film academy welcomes such humour.<\/p>\n<p>Hudlin said he\u2019s confident Rock\u2019s material \u201cwill deliver something that people will be talking about for weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Awards producer Reginald Hudlin says host Chris Rock is hard at work rewriting his material for next month\u2019s Oscar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2,106],"tags":[9636],"class_list":["post-69261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-cp","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}