AP: Host Praised…
Monday, February 25, 2013 9:03
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NEW YORK (AP) — He ruffled feathers. He maybe even turned some viewers off.But it’s likely no one turned off Seth MacFarlane.Best-known until recently as the bad-boy creator and character voice behind “Family Guy” and last summer’s hit film “Ted,” MacFarlane seized the camera Sunday as host of ABC’s Oscarcast and proved to its vast audience that he’s a ridiculously versatile entertainer, a guy who can be as charming as he is famously irreverent, even polarizing.Here’s a guy who could toss off a joke Bob Hope might have delivered decades ago (“It’s Sunday. Everybody’s dressed up. This is like church – only with more people praying”), then carry off a deliberate groaner like his wisecrack that, while, an actor like Daniel Day-Lewis really captured Abraham Lincoln in his Oscar-winning performance, “I would argue that the actor who really got inside Abraham Lincoln’s head was John Wilkes Booth.”Viewers could have gotten fair warning of what to expect from MacFarlane last fall…
2013-02-25 08:48:48
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