Posted on 11/09/2011 12:40:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
LOS ANGELES — Eddie Murphy is dropping out as the host of the Oscars telecast, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said Wednesday, less than 24 hours after the show’s producer Brett Ratner stepped aside amid a storm of criticism over his use of an anti-gay slur over the weekend. .
The hasty departures represented an embarrassing collapse of the Academy’s plans for the Oscar presentation and left it with just over three months to fill key roles for one of the most elaborately staged television shows of the year.
Mr. Ratner, who was named the Oscar co-producer on Aug. 4, resigned on Tuesday morning because of the furor over anti-gay slur and a subsequent, salacious discussion of his own sexual habits on Howard Stern’s radio program on Sirius XM Radio show.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation strongly objected to the derisive remark about gays, and a flood of objections by academy members and media commentators quickly made clear that the Academy’s Feb. 26 Oscar show on ABC, if Mr. Ratner remained in charge, was going to be as much about Mr. Ratner as the movies.
Mr. Murphy on Wednesday followed Mr. Ratner — his friend, and the director of his latest film “Tower Heist” — out the door.
"I appreciate how Eddie feels about losing his creative partner, Brett Ratner, and we all wish him well," Tom Sherak, the president of the academy, said in a statement.
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Good for Eddie.
“Good for Eddie.”
Well, he’s not Gay, he’s Gumby, dammit!
Eddie was in the same boat years ago when he used the term ‘faggots’ in his Delirious video.
The Oscars could always hire the newly formed, Cain Gold Digger Tap Dance Troupe. I'm pretty sure Allred could get them to do the show pretty cheap.
“Eddie was in the same boat years ago when he used the term ‘faggots’ in his Delirious video.”
He had some classic lines.
Ratner obviously was pushed aside after his (admittedly improper and rude) faux pas; point being, the PC Police wouldn’t accept his apology and move on. Oh no; they had to have his head, too.
I don’t think Murphy is anti-gay or (despite his early standup history) approves of the word Ratner used, but he figures (as I do) that Ratner’s being forced out is an overreaction.
So although the various press releases “make nice” and “air kiss,” this is a big F You Too from Murphy, and I can’t say that I disagree. Everyone slips up and say a stupid things sometimes that they don’t even mean.
Well, Eddie might be gay but he’s never been funny.
Feces
That is the main word that comes to mind when I see the word gay....
“Hey boy, you look pretty good in them jeans...”
So what was the slur?
“Norton my friend......”
Ratner was asked about rehearsals (for the film “Tower Heist,” featuring Murphy among others), and he joked dismissively, “Rehearsals?! Rehearsals are for f*gs.”
He obviously did not mean homosexuals. He meant “for the weak.”
I grant you, it was not something I would say these days. If I wanted to be a bit profane without being PC, I might have said, “Rehearsals are for p*ssies” or “wimps.”
Shalom, Eddie.
Using Teabagger , is good.
Using the word fag , is bad.
Man, that Mr. T skit had me on the floor.
I should add (to my first reply) that Ratner’s entire RESPONSE was a joke, in the sense that OF COURSE the “Tower Heist” cast and crew DID perform rehearsals. It’s a major (budget) motion picture with a couple of over-$10M actors done in NYC with a union crew. They’re not going to “wing it.”
All this just to underscore what an overreaction the Oscars made in forcing Ratner out instead of simply asking for a nice apology.
Sean Penn was probably picketing the Kodak Theater.
Jeff Spicoli: “Those guys are fags.”
Sean Penn in `Fast Times At Ridgemont High’
Remember the uproar? Yeah, neither do I.
“Norton my friend......”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“Homina, homina, homina....”
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