Calls for Brett Ratner’s firing from the Oscar telecast are growing as word of his gay slur and raunchy remarks on the Howard Stern show are circulating.
Mark Harris, a columnist for Entertainment Weekly and the Oscars columnist for ESPN’s Grantland, called for Ratner’s dismissal on Monday. Tuesday morning he was joined by Salon movie writer Andrew O’Hehir.
Harris wrote in Grantland: “There’s not really a long, nuanced debate to be had about this. If he had used an equivalent racial or religious slur, the discussion would go something like, ‘You’re fired.’ Apology or not. The same rule applies here. You don’t get a mulligan on homophobia. Not in 2011.”
O’Hehir took a similar tact in his Salon essay titled “Why Oscar producer Brett Ratner has to go,” arguing that Ratner’s apology doesn’t go near far enough.
“He should quit or be fired, and the Academy needs to hear that loud and clear from the press and the public,” O’Hehir wrote. “This isn’t the first time Ratner has revealed himself to be an arrogant and insensitive creep, and quite likely a homophobe, and no doubt it won’t be the last.”
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