Slog

News & Arts

Line Out

Music & the City
at Night

« Julie Taymor Sues the Producers of… | Who Do Religious Republicans Want? »

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Film Brett Ratner Is No Longer Producing the Oscars

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:51 PM

After saying "rehearsal is for fags" at a post-screening discussion and blabbing about sex with Olivia Munn, Tower Heist director Brett Ratner has stepped down from his role as producer of the 2012 Oscars:

Having love in your heart doesn’t count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted. With this in mind, and to all those who understandably feel that apologies are not enough, please know that I will be taking real action over the coming weeks and months in an effort to do everything I can both professionally and personally to help stamp out the kind of thoughtless bigotry I’ve so foolishly perpetuated.

As a first step, I called Tom Sherak this morning and resigned as a producer of the 84th Academy Awards telecast. Being asked to help put on the Oscar show was the proudest moment of my career. But as painful as this may be for me, it would be worse if my association with the show were to be a distraction from the Academy and the high ideals it represents.

This is way better than yesterday's "I apologize for any offense my remarks caused" apology, which barely felt like an apology at all. But he still hasn't apologized for being Brett Ratner, and that's the source of all his problems.

Comments (10) RSS

Oldest First Unregistered On Registered On Add a comment

That's not love in his heart, it's lard.

Posted by Fnarf

on November 8, 2011 at 5:03 PM

He should have had whoever wrote this one write the first one.

Posted by monkey on November 8, 2011 at 5:44 PM

And I think they're right to think Ratner's hand-picked hosting choice, Eddie "faggots aren't allowed to look at my ass while I'm onstage" Murphy, may wind up watching this year's show from home like the rest of us now. Poor thing.

Posted by gloomy gus on November 8, 2011 at 5:48 PM

Why is Brett Ratner blabbing about someone else having sex with Olivia Munn? What's he got to gain from that? Wait, he's not claiming that he had sex with her, is he? Because that would be pathetic.

Posted by Knat on November 8, 2011 at 6:17 PM

Here's a suggestion for Goldy & his bible quotes: "[It is] not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man." --Matthew 15:11

Of course, his article is for ridicule, and not for philosophical discussion, so he'll probably skip this one.

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on November 8, 2011 at 6:43 PM

I want to hear more about the sex with Olivia Munn. Link?

Posted by Westlake, son! on November 8, 2011 at 9:29 PM

"Rehearsal is for fags."

I suppose that explains like, ALL of his films?

Posted by Cephalodude on November 8, 2011 at 10:25 PM

@6 I too clicked for that, and ended up reading all about some jerk I've never heard of and a show I never watch. Pwned.

Posted by Prettybetsy on November 9, 2011 at 12:29 AM

@6 - As I understand it, he claimed to have "banged" Olivia Munn "before she was Asian," which I guess was supposed to mean before she got famous. Classy, I know.

Posted by evilvolus on November 9, 2011 at 9:45 AM