Brett Ratner Quits The Oscars
For those of you hoping that the 2012 Oscars will have ticking statues that will blow up in the winner's hand when their speech is too long and award escorts cast from Craigslist's "casual encounters" section, you're in for a world of disappointment, because Brett Ratner has pink-slipped himself as the producer of that mess following the rainbow-colored shit storm he created by saying "rehearsal is for fags" during a Q&A. Brett already said to GLAAD, "Like, I'm sorry, brah!" and GLAAD took his apology, but some Academy members still wanted him thrown into a dumpster behind the Kodak Theater. Brett decided to make it easier for everyone involved so he quit that bitch.
A team of publicists and administrative assistants worked for most of the day on a well-written and eloquent exit statement while Brett fucked a can of shrimp in the bathroom. Here's what the talking skid mark on a frat boy's boxers had to say:
An Open Letter to the Entertainment Industry from Brett RatnerDear Colleagues,
Over the last few days, 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 in a number of recent media appearances. To them, and to everyone I’ve hurt and offended, I’d like to apologize publicly and unreservedly.
As difficult as the last few days have been for me, they cannot compare to the experience of any young man or woman who has been the target of offensive slurs or derogatory comments. And they pale in comparison to what any gay, lesbian, or transgender individual must deal with as they confront the many inequalities that continue to plague our world.
So many artists and craftspeople in our business are members of the LGBT community, and it pains me deeply that I may have hurt them. I should have known this all along, but at least I know it now: words do matter. 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.
I am grateful to GLAAD for engaging me in a dialogue about what we can do together to increase awareness of the important and troubling issues this episode has raised and I look forward to working with them. I am incredibly lucky to have a career in this business that I love with all of my heart and to be able to work alongside so many of my heroes. I deeply regret my actions and I am determined to learn from this experience.
Sincerely,
Brett Ratner
What he really meant is: "Blah blah blah blah blah but I still get to jack my pencil eraser dick with the finest imported shrimp grease in the world, fags!"
You know, the Academy doesn't have to look far for Brett's replacement. They just have to tilt their heads and look up a few branches above Brett on his family tree and they'll find his gorgeously perfect grandmother Fanita (the jewel in the picture above). Fanita is the real star of that family. The Oscars should just be 10 hours of Fanita glimmering at the camera while throwing statues at the winners' heads.
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oh and people need to simmer down. and dont get ur panties in a bunch. why are people so offended nowadays?
that woman... oh my lord
It surprises me that no one (i did skim, I might have missed it if someone did) has brought up the re-claiming of offensive words... i.e. male gays calling themselves fags, fairies, gay boys, etc. Or female gays referring to themselves as dykes, qweers, etc. The LGBT community reclaimed all those words and made them a symbol of pride in that community. Much like the feminist movement did with the word 'bitch'. Or those that reclaimed 'the n word'.
There was a point to doing this, to disempower the hateful, to make hateful words ineffective to their intended victims.
As I read opinions here, by attributing to Brett Ratner's comment a truely hurtful intention.... articulating all the ways this one word can cut... it seems to me people might be playing into the hands of those that intend to hurt. Instead of laughing off a word that has no power.
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To " Bjork"
Calling me stupid makes you seem like a "fucking idiot" It's okay, you can also be fucking stupid too. I don’t expect you to get it. Your as fucking dumb as the whole story in the first place. Get out of the closet.
To " Bjork"
Good god I am always having to re-do things or educate people like you that either don't get it? Or can't read between the lines.
Lets do this s-l-o-w-l-y because I still doubt you will GET IT?
In the formable area that “Brett Ratner” was speaking clearly he can not express himself which would mean, NOW " Bjork" READ this S-l-o-w-l-y.
That the world has become GAY. What does that mean. Well it means to not offend GAYS or people who have a different life style. Two sided coin. You can say anything you want about many issues but not say anything about GAYS. I am speaking on this format which because I am not “Brett Ratner” I can get away with it.
Please study this slowly and maybe you might get it, doubt it but try.
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The world is a place where you just got to express, to quote you: your "right to speak" their [your) mind[s], even if they [you] sound stupid doing so."
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Submitted by Bjork You on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 2:59pm.
Submitted by Who Cares on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:35pm.
What is the world coming to now?
If you say something about a Gay person they want to stone you to fucking death. Forget the freedom thing, we have no more freedoms.
But you can be a fucking illegal mexican and invade America or California for that matter, get a paid education and free housing, free food. But if you are born here you just pay taxes for this whole fucking mess.
The left wing nutts can burn the right wing to the fucking ground and that is normal? All these two sided coins.
Gay or not Gay, people should have the right to speak their minds, even if they sound stupid doing so. So now being Gay gives you so much more rights then anyone. What is the world coming to now?
Now your final comment. [you] sound stupid doing so."
Calling me stupid makes you seem like a "fucking idiot" It's okay, you can be fucking stupid too.
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The world is a place where you just got to express, to quote you: your "right to speak" their [your) mind[s], even if they [you] sound stupid doing so."
Submitted by Who Cares on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:35pm.
What is the world coming to now?
If you say something about a Gay person they want to stone you to fucking death. Forget the freedom thing, we have no more freedoms.
But you can be a fucking illegal mexican and invade America or California for that matter, get a paid education and free housing, free food. But if you are born here you just pay taxes for this whole fucking mess.
The left wing nutts can burn the right wing to the fucking ground and that is normal? All these two sided coins.
Gay or not Gay, people should have the right to speak their minds, even if they sound stupid doing so. So now being Gay gives you so much more rights then anyone. What is the world coming to now?
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The world is a place where you just got to express, to quote you: your "right to speak" their [your) mind[s], even if they [you] sound stupid doing so."
Just like I said: Eddie quit the Oscars
http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/09/eddie-murphy-quits-oscars-brett-ratner/#.T...
Must be a first.
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What is the world coming to now?
If you say something about a Gay person they want to stone you to fucking death. Forget the freedom thing, we have no more freedoms.
But you can be a fucking illegal mexican and invade America or California for that matter, get a paid education and free housing, free food. But if you are born here you just pay taxes for this whole fucking mess.
The left wing nutts can burn the right wing to the fucking ground and that is normal? All these two sided coins.
Gay or not Gay, people should have the right to speak their minds, even if they sound stupid doing so. So now being Gay gives you so much more rights then anyone. What is the world coming to now?
Submitted by not shocked on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 12:52pm.
I can't imagine what other rancid crotch sweat soaked pieces of shit chicks in hollyweird have to fuck in order to 'make it'. I think porn has more honor and dignity if you gotta blow a neanderthal like this for a chance to audition for a part you probably will not get.
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No, you don't have to blow Ratner, just Harvey Weinstein, which is worse.
Submitted by Bjork You on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 12:50pm.
You're pathetic. Keep your false accusations and your unbridled mental illness to yourself.
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I can't imagine what other rancid crotch sweat soaked pieces of shit chicks in hollyweird have to fuck in order to 'make it'. I think porn has more honor and dignity if you gotta blow a neanderthal like this for a chance to audition for a part you probably will not get.
Every Strangers Eyes (ESE),
Tony Perkis is Fraggle, aka Angela.
Submitted by Migraineuse on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 9:25pm.
Submitted by Stoney on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 8:17pm.
I hate censorship of any kind. What he said was stupid and offensive yes, but his apology sounds like he committed first degree murder or some shit. If you don't like what someone says, log it in your brain that you don't like them and move on. Ridiculous.
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Freedom of speech is not absolute and was never meant to be. I don't see anybody advocating for legalizing yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater, but let some privileged asshole publicly shit on a marginalized group, and all of a sudden self-appointed Patrick Henrys everywhere will stick up for him because OMG CENSORSHIP.
I think it's more about defending the privilege to rub one's superior status in others' faces than it is about the freedom of ideas. Notice how it's almost always the straights who think "fag" is no big deal.
Words mean things. Hate speech normalizes hate.
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Yes. Ratner wasn't censored, and it betrays a certain lack of common sense, book-learnin' and general human decency to float this up as a censorship or First Amendment issue, rather than the reaction of any person or organization to decide they don't want to deal with, sanction and further enrich a probable misogynist and homophobic no-talent. But please, Stoney, continue with your screed. I also need to read much more about how you have a nice ass for a white girl. Etc. Ad nauseum.
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Submitted by Einah Teb on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:18pm.
Pfff... like gays don't talk snotty crap about "breeders" ...
-Einah
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Einah? You're a rotten person.
Submitted by Cat Scratch on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 12:54am.
Brett got on my shit list yesterday after he was moaning about wanting a girl who "worships" him like his mother, a girl who's "all about" him. Then he went into disgusting detail about eating furry cunts like his mother's furry cunt that he got to see as a child in a nudist colony. It just reeks of Oedipal chauvinism...makes me fuckin' sick. He's a goddamn dog.
This is what is more disturbing about him. Some people might think he's a homophobe...I'm not sure but he seems to constantly find a reason to prove that he is heterosexual and that OOOH! I'm a big douche that bangs chicks!
What's with someones need to prove this ALL THE TIME!
I consider myself a male hetero but I really don't have this need to prove to anyone else about how I am sexually and I happen to be a very sexually involved person.
Submitted by Tony Perkis on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 10:26am.
Stoney got fucking OWNED in this thread! LOL!!!
It was a valiant effort by ritzy, but in the end, boredasfuckyo came out of the shadows and won the whole post.
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uuummmm... yyeeaahh... you're twelve years old, right?... please make this kind of silly statement meaningful by telling me that you're twelve years old.
OT: still don't give a damn about awards, or Ratner... you see?.. my hands are tied in this endeavour.
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ohmygoodness please make fanita hot slut of the day/week/year/millenium!! gorgeousssss
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Stoney got fucking OWNED in this thread! LOL!!!
It was a valiant effort by ritzy, but in the end, boredasfuckyo came out of the shadows and won the whole post.
P.S. I'm glad FATner got booted out... Good lord. I can tell just by looking that he needs a MONSTER colonic.
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Submitted by ISprainedMyUvula on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 8:45am.
Wow, great post.
i usually watch the oscars just to see if my guesses are correct, but what the fuck is this rumor that oprah is getting an honorary oscar?? for what??! so now they're giving out honorary oscars to people? if this really is happening, i'm done and the whole thing is one god damn big scam.
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A baby's first words should not be: "DEATH DON'T TAKE ME NOW!!!" - MK
A PERSON can be thoughtful, kind, sympathetic to the plights of others and accountable for their own actions. PEOPLE as a whole are thoughtless, arrogant, narcissistic and believe that they have no responsibility to consider how their words/thoughts/actions affect other people because they can hide behind the notion that something can be unheard or unfelt.
I would rather err on the side of keeping my mouth shut than have what comes out of it be ugly. I don't feel that what is in my head always needs to be broadcast and put out into the world, especially when it comes from a self-important, close-minded place that we ALL have in our heads. I don't know when it became fashionable to not know your audience and opinionate to the point of insufferability and long after the curtain has closed. I don't know how people can't learn from the mistakes of others and assume that they are the exception to the rule of simply thinking before they speak.
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Submitted by yepyepyep on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 8:39am.
Had not read your comments yet but rumor has it that the chick he called a whore I forgot her name already is one of Harvey Wienstein girl's
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Olivia Munn, and I had heard that rumor too, that she is Harvey's NEW Gretchen Mol.
I don't get Harvey and his cheating scum bag ways, because his wife is YOUNG and GORGEOUS. At least I think she is.
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Had not read your comments yet but rumor has it that the chick he called a whore I forgot her name already is one of Harvey Wienstein girl's and that is why he apologized so quickly. and that is why all the backlash, that chick is definitely fucking her way "up" and has high connections.
"I will pee myself today and when someone asks, "what is that smell?", I will happily tell them Veluptuous by KK!" Urmomma
Submitted by clairey claire on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 7:50am.
Clairey, I know that it must have been heartbreaking for Roxy, BUT sooooooo many kids suffer the same bullying as well. I could go on and on about how I was made fun of and bullied in school. I HATED school, and was in tears more days than not. I begged at points to be home schooled, anything to not have to go to class and be picked on. Bullying and discrimination are not solely things done to the gay community or those of different ethnic or racial backgrounds. Kids are fucking mean, and adults, although you would like to think so, are not much better.
I do not need to walk a mile in someone else's shoes to know what being tortured by school mates feels like, because I have been there myself. I think a lot of dlisters have, and I feel for ANYONE who was bullied, made fun of, discriminated against and tortured in school, because I was. I have been there, and it hurts, and is painful.
To me, words are only as powerful as the strength you give them.
Just my 2 pennies.
Bring back Michael Richards!
If every asshat is allowed to talk freely then apologize for the offense their remarks
MAY have caused and no career fallout then I want Michael Richards to get his own goddamn sitcom!
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What kind of fuckery is this?
One of the first posts I remember reading from Ritzy Roxie was a long and fucking heartbreaking tale of the horrific oppression that he suffered as a young gay kid growing up. So unless you have experienced the levels of injustice and hate that some parts of our society do just for being themselves, it probably is best to watch your mouth and I include myself in that. *wipes faggot from vocab as a result of this thread*
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"It's always funny until somebody gets hurt-then it's fucking hilarious": The late great Bill Hicks
Brett Ratner is proof that evolution can go backwards.
What an asshat. And, his movies are garbage.
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yes, but he's still an overrated hack and a douche. how do you quit bitches like that?
always remember, wherever you go, your asshole follows...
WOWZERS! So glad I missed this thread last night.
Am I the only one that believes he wasn't talking about gay people?
Btw, I DO NOT use the word anymore. Don't even think about using it. I'm just asking because I'm from the 80's and we used that word all the time and NO ONE thought about gay people when using it.
so is Eddie Murphy out?
xoxox
The war isn't working.
I was also thinking this was overblown. He's a knob no one looks up to. Does what a sweaty ignorant slob says really matter?
People are taking shit waaaaaaaaaaay too seriously! Eveytime I'm look at the comments now, there is some stupid argument going on! Lighten the fuck up!
Dag stoephoertjes!
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RUSTY & CAPPY, vous nous manquez! Soyez gentils et donnez-nous de vos nouvelles!
Wait, hold on, ritzyroxie is a DUDE???
What is my life
The Academy Awards and high ideals what now?!
But seriously, the over reaction to this (his comments about some slut and fags rehearsing) is actually worse than his sweaty, lardy existence.
Oh noes, hope I haven't offended any sweaty lardy people!
This fucking world sucks when THIS is a controversy. Pathetic.
Whore!
The poster formerly known as Snow Owl formerly known as Night Owl!
Slut.
Ritzy, I bow down to you! : )
The poster formerly known as Snow Owl formerly known as Night Owl!
I think it was a Hussein Chaylaine (sp? not googling). She couldn't quite pull it off. That was the beginning of the end.
Gawd, Bjork You! I nearly spilled my rank coffee at Goopy's uneven, unsupported tits. She really seems to think she doesn't need one. I mean, just an ace bandage would hold them preemie puppies up.
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A beauty that makes abuelitas pray for our sinful souls is my kind of beauty. -MK 9/12/11
YAAAAAAASS! -Sage Khia
I'm getting out my umbrella for the inevitable barrage of gay/ghey jokes on tomorrow's threads.
Or maybe not.
Cool.
Night, becks.
I have to see what everyone is wearing. I miss the days when not everyone had a stylist. Sure, that was a lot more fucked up shit, but at least it was their own. I'm thinking of Kim Basinger's Oscar outfit, around the Prince days; Celine Dion's half pantsuit; Goopy's lovely dress that would have looked great on someone else who doesn't have droopy, uneven tits, or who would at least know to wear support of some kind; Geena Davis's Miss Kitty at the Saloon Gaultier designed dress; Demi Moore's bicycle skort...
Night all - be good! :)
Submitted by jazzfish_77 on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:09am.
Never watched it and I never will.
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The red carpet? I would have thought that you liked to watch carpets. ;P
Never watched it and I never will.
Submitted by EveryStrangersEyes on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 1:01am.
OT: do people still watch the circle jerk that is awards shows?
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I only watch the red carpets. The actual ceremonies bore me senseless.
All very good points. I'm gonna take my flat ignorant moron ass to the kitchen now lol. Goodnight!
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