Date 01/03/2016 - News People
Although it may have appeared Oscar's host Chris Rock filmed interviews at a Compton movie theater about this year's #OscarsSoWhite nominees. Rock wasn?t in Compton at all. He filmed the interviews much closer to Hollywood, seven miles from the Dolby Theater, in another predominantly African-American neighborhood in southwest L.A. that?s much closer than Compton and a lot more developed. So while most didn?t realize it, Oscar viewers didn?t meet the colorful moviegoers of Compton, which is farther east and has no movie theater of its own. They met the moviegoers of Crenshaw/Baldwin Hills?a neighborhood bordered by a predominantly black neighborhood known as ?the black Beverly Hills.?