Brett Ratner has resigned as producer of next years Oscars after making quite a selection of ill judged remarks over the last few days. And now Eddie Murphy (who Ratner got on board to host the Oscars) has stepped down as well. It probably doesn’t come as much of a shock, but it must be an obvious blow to the Academy Awards. Murphy is right at home in front of a live audience and this really would have signalled a huge return for the Tower Heist star, who really needs to make a more than welcome return. I believe the Oscars would have been the beginning of that.
Murphy has commented saying “First and foremost I want to say that I completely understand and support each party's decision with regard to a change of producers for this year's Academy Awards ceremony. I was truly looking forward to being a part of the show that our production team and writers were just starting to develop, but I'm sure that the new production team and host will do an equally great job."
So the pressure is on to find a replacement for Eddie Murphy for the 84th Academy Awards which will be beaming into homes on Feb 26th 2012.
And for the Brett Ratner fans, here's what all the hullabaloo is all about. (via THR)
1. “I’m a hypochondriac. Before I go all the way, I send the girl to the doctor and check them for everything. My doctor has a test to tell if you’re going to catch something in the future even.” - - Brett Ratner on Lindsay Lohan (The Howard Stern Show)
2. “I said I banged her three times, which wasn’t true... The problem is I made her look like whore." - Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (The Howard Stern Show)
3. "I have huge balls." - Brett Ratner on his balls (The Howard Stern Show)
4. "I turned 40, and I said, 'Holy s---. I've never gotten a girl pregnant.' And I've been doing this pull-out thing for year and years and years. So I go to a doctor and I said, 'You gotta check my sperm.' He calls me up two days later and says, 'We gotta talk.' .... He said, 'Brett, in 25 years, I've never seen a sperm count like this.' The average load is 40 million sperm, and only 30-40 percent are motile. He said I have 10 times, 480 million sperm, he said, 'If you breathe on a girl, she's going to get pregnant.' ... So now I'm condoms only." - Brett Ratner on never getting a woman pregnant, including longtime ex-girlfriend Rebecca Gayheart (The Howard Stern Show)
5. "I'm probably the best in the world at it" - Brett Ratner on oral sex (The Howard Stern Show)
6. "She was hanging out on my set of ‘After the Sunset,’ I banged her a few times…but I forgot her." - Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (G4)
7. "When she came and auditioned for me for a TV show, I forgot her, she got pissed off and she made up all these stories about me eating shrimp and masturbating in my trailer. And my shortcomings. She talked about my shortcomings. I get it. She’s bitter.” Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (G4)
8. "I used to date Olivia Munn.. when she was Lisa. That was the problem. She wasn't Asian back then." - Brett Ratner on Olivia Munn (G4)
9. "Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much." - Brett Ratner (at a Tower Heist screening)
10. "It was a dumb way of expressing myself. Everyone who knows me knows that I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body. But as a storyteller I should have been much more thoughtful about the power of language and my choice of words.” - Brett Ratner apologizing for his stance on rehearsal.
