After a series of controversial statements in the press this week, Brett Ratner resigned as producer of this year's Academy Awards show.
Director Brett Ratner was last night dramatically fired as producer of the Oscars after making bizarre remarks including, “Rehearsal is for fags.” “Tower Heist” helmer Ratner infuriated Hollywood with the gay slur when asked about his rehearsal process at a Q&A Friday at the ArcLight in LA. The same day, he went on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM show and got carried away in a raunchy discussion about sex, saying he sends women he sleeps with to his doctor to be checked for diseases. His publicists at Rubenstein p.r. last night confirmed to Page Six they’re no longer working with Ratner “because of artistic differences.” Reps for “Tower Heist” star Eddie Murphy, whom Ratner recruited to host the Feb. 26 awards, did not get back to us. The Academy said in a statement: “[Ratner] did the right thing for the Academy [by resigning] . . . Words have meaning, and they have consequences. Brett is a good person, but his comments were unacceptable.” A sober Ratner said, “I’ve gotten a well-deserved earful from many of the people I admire most in this industry expressing their outrage and disappointment over the hurtful and stupid things I said.”Jacked from Page Six
3 comments:
I guess he didn't learn from the mistakes Tracy Morgan and Isaiah Washington made. You can't piss off the hollywood gay mafia.
Anything gay, hollywood loves & defends. If his comments had of been racial...they would've laughed with him. I'm convinced being gay or bi-sexual is a pre-requisite in tinsel town. And those that are hetero are asked to do gay shit so they forever have something to control your career with. If U don't do it, you're out.
@ 9:15: ...being gay or bi-sexual is a pre-requisite in tinsel town.
That is just the tip of the iceberg!
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