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 shows 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 Academys 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 Sterns 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 Academys 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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The Oscars...brought to you by Texxon....because Buckwheat would have wanted it that way.
Hollywood is for fags. Has been for a long time.
“...and then the big brown shark came...”
if nobody produced it coyldn’t be much worse than it was last year. Just when I think it can’t get worse... It does. Murphy would have been a step in the right direction.
Okay, he was improper and rude; but, honestly, don't you go on Howard Stern's show to have the freedom to be improper and rude? Does anyone listen to Howard Stern expecting good behavior or proper language?
He was doing some interview recently and for some reason, it seemed like he was entirely unethusiastic about the Oscars. It almost seems with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight that he might have been glad for any excuse to drop out.
Agreed. Or at least, I agree based on what bits I’ve seen from that Stern show. Frankly I’m surprised some radical, anti-sex feminist group isn’t after his head. I took his remarks as largely self-deprecating (except for bragging about being good, um, Down South), if frat-boy juvenile. As you said, though, What do you expect?? on the Stern show.
He always likes to do the gay scenes.
See here for instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwsPp523Q9Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDhmm4GWE8Q
Why is this latest Gaystapo crucifixion even treated as news?
Faggies own Hollywood. Stop the presses!
That is the main word that comes to mind when I see the word gay....
What a coincidence! It's the main thing which comes to gays when they start probing too!
Is it just me, or is this really sh!tty writing? Number of viewers is down, then cite number that go up! Where's that duck that goes GAAAK?
Sissies all of them...FAGS. There said it.
Yep - dassit!
see 36....
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