If this year's choice for Academy Awards host makes you go "wha?!", don't feel bad. Not everyone knows who Seth MacFarlane is, even if they are familiar with his work.
In an attempt to make the Oscars relevant again and appeal to a younger demographic, the show's producers asked MacFarlane -- the mastermind behind the highly successful animated show "Family Guy" and the box office hit "Ted" -- to take on his toughest gig yet.
Not only is some of the audience at home unfamiliar with him, his humor and his extensive array of voices, but the same goes for many people who will sit across from him Sunday night, dressed in their best evening gowns and their most expensive jewelry. The world's biggest actors, actresses and Oscar nominees are a hard crowd to please and they don't take personal stabs lightly, so MacFarlane will have to tread lightly. He's encouraged to be funny,...
In an attempt to make the Oscars relevant again and appeal to a younger demographic, the show's producers asked MacFarlane -- the mastermind behind the highly successful animated show "Family Guy" and the box office hit "Ted" -- to take on his toughest gig yet.
Not only is some of the audience at home unfamiliar with him, his humor and his extensive array of voices, but the same goes for many people who will sit across from him Sunday night, dressed in their best evening gowns and their most expensive jewelry. The world's biggest actors, actresses and Oscar nominees are a hard crowd to please and they don't take personal stabs lightly, so MacFarlane will have to tread lightly. He's encouraged to be funny,...
- 2/20/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
The 'evil genius' behind filthily comic cartoon Family Guy is not only turning his hand to an action film Ted, albeit starring a bear, but singing swing at this summer's BBC Proms in London
There are two wildly contrasting cultural dates in the diary this coming month that seem unlikely to attract the same crowd. One is the British release on Wednesday of a bawdy American comedy about a foul-mouthed soft toy called Ted and the other is a BBC Prom celebrating the swingin' music of the golden era of Hollywood and Broadway songwriting. And yet the star of these mismatched entertainments is one and the same man: Seth MacFarlane.
MacFarlane, who will sing at the Albert Hall on 27 August before keeping a second date at Ronnie Scott's, is to fly into London from his Beverly Hills home shortly after Ted, his directorial debut, opens in cinemas. His first solo album,...
There are two wildly contrasting cultural dates in the diary this coming month that seem unlikely to attract the same crowd. One is the British release on Wednesday of a bawdy American comedy about a foul-mouthed soft toy called Ted and the other is a BBC Prom celebrating the swingin' music of the golden era of Hollywood and Broadway songwriting. And yet the star of these mismatched entertainments is one and the same man: Seth MacFarlane.
MacFarlane, who will sing at the Albert Hall on 27 August before keeping a second date at Ronnie Scott's, is to fly into London from his Beverly Hills home shortly after Ted, his directorial debut, opens in cinemas. His first solo album,...
- 7/28/2012
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
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