Do the Oscars Need to Fire Eddie Murphy for Saying &#39;Fag&#39;
Too?S  In the wake of Brett Ratner resigning from producing what
would have been History's Worst Oscars because he said "fag,"
should the Academy also be looking at what their host has said
about gay people in the past too? Probably.  David Carr drew our
attention to the above snippet from Eddie Murphy's Delirious,
the popular stand up special filmed at the height of his
popularity in 1983. In this section he repeatedly refers to gay
people as "faggots," and makes all sorts of off-color jokes
about them.  If Ratner got the axe (and not the body spray) for
using the epithet, should Murphy get it too? It would be an easy
excuse to erase Ratner's decision to tap him as host, a decision
that seemed spurred to sell more tickets to the Ratner/Murphy
movie Tower Heist (in theaters now!) than because he would be a
good fit for the job. And just who would the Academy get to
replace these two? Ryan Murphy and Neil Patrick Harris? That
might be an over cor