News: Chris Rock won't host next Academy Awards

Chris Rock won't be back to hand out Oscars next year. "He is not hosting the Academy Awards," the comedian's publicist Matt Labov said Friday in a brief statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. He did not elaborate.

Labov told The New York Times that Rock did not want to do the show "in perpetuity" but would "like to do it again down the road".
Rock took over as host for the first time last year. He drew younger viewers, but his barbs skewering stars like Jude Law, Tobey Maguire and others alienated some members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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