First, Brett Ratner, the director of big, noisy crowd-pleasing movies who is producing the Eddie Murhphy-hosted Oscarcast this year, said at a Arclight Q&A session after a showing of his new film "Tower Heist" that "rehearsals are for fags." Then he went on Howard Stern's show and gave a detailed description of his sex life, including boasting of doing Lindsay Lohan and Olivia Munn. Is it any wonder that the Academy is starting to get pressured to drop Ratner from the show?:
http://thewrap.com/awards/column-post/brett-ratners-slurs-and-raunch-draw-fire-within-academy-32573?page=0,0 The Wrap's Steve Pond also reports that Bruce Vilanch will not be on the Oscarcast writing staff for the first time in years this year, although this was decided on by Ratner (I don't think Vilanch will take too kindly to that "rehearsals are for fags" remark, though). Leno writer Jon Macks is the only Oscar veteran on staff, which includes the guys who wrote "Tower Heist," two longtime associates of Murphy going back to "SNL" and two "Curb Your Enthusiasm" writers (wait a minute--I thought that show was improvised from Larry David's scenarios). -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
