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Sore Losers Suck
#25re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 8:33pm
I also admire Beyonce for making the right career move and playing a role in a movie she knew would make her an actress with a top-notch director like Condon. During TV interviews she was always very classy about Jennifer Hudson.
Murphy has a bad reputation but since he had won the SAG Award I was pretty sure he'd win the Academy Award as well. It wasn't professional to leave just like that but we don't know if there were any other reasons for him to leave.
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#26re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 8:35pm
While I'm not saying it didn't happen, we are getting our information from US Weekly, not The New York Times.
Updated On: 2/26/07 at 08:35 PM
#27re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:15pmNoooo. He should have won. He was brilliant in that role, he is so talented and fantastic, and I feel so bad for him. He completly deserved that Oscar. Alan Arkin was great but Eddie Murphy should have gotten it. And That was a role of a lifetime.
#28re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:16pm
You feel bad for him?
Why in the world would anyone waste time and energy feeling bad for him?
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#29re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:22pmI love how people are arguing whether he had the right to feel a particular emotion over his loss. Really, he had the right to feel however the hell he wanted over losing the award. At any rate, he should have attempted to give a faux smile, as all losers of awards do, remained in his seat, and had a little class. I don't see how anyone would even believe this sort of behavior is justifiable.
#30re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:23pm
Didn't Kevin Kline leave the Tonys in a huff when he lost a few years ago?
Christopher Plummer stormed out, not Kline.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#31re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:24pmI knew it was either Plummer or Kline. Thanks for the clarification.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#32re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:27pmNo problem, and I totally agree with you. What Murphy did was disrespectful. You'd think he would want to stay and support Ms. Hudson, but he proved himself to be an egomaniacal ass.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#33re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:27pmEddie was crying all the way home, until he passed a transvestite hooker..... then......
#34re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:29pm
I guess I'm in the minority here.I don't think his performance was Oscar worthy even thought I voted for him on CapnHook's Oscar predictions thread. I had only seen him and Alan Arkin in that category and thought he had a better chance of winning.Anyway, that is ridiculous that he supposedly stormed out. I don't like him to begin with because, he wasn't going to be in the film at first since he wasn't being being offered tens of million dollar salaries.
Well that's my 2 cents.
#35re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:40pm
Alan Arkin was great but Eddie Murphy should have gotten it. And That was a role of a lifetime.
Only it wasn't HIS role of a lifetime. It was Cleavant Derricks' role of a lifetime.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#36re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:51pmI have a question. A friend of mine insists that Eddie Murphy was slated to be a part of the musical number later in the program and they had to work around his absence. I haven't heard that from anywhere else, but she continues to insist. Is that true?
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#37re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:53pm^ Makes sense, I guess. That's what I thought when I first heard the story. If it's true, that makes his leaving that much worse and unprofessional.
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#38re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:58pmThat completely untrue. Murphy passed on performing on the telecast from the very beginning and only the three women and Keith Robinson were ever slated to appear (and were the only ones who rehearsed that medley with Condon).
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#39re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 9:58pm
Having said that, Murphy's was the best performance in that category
Disagree. I felt that Haley and Arkin were better.
If what I'm reading is true, that was increibly rude of him.
#40re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 10:01pm
I really don't like Eddie Murphy in general. None of his movies are too incredibly worth remembering, and I honestly thought that he wasn't all that great in "Dreamgirls."
And seeing him on the pre-Oscar special, getting interviewed and all, he gave me a really bad vibe. He seemed very cocky and confident that he would win. The camera panned to him soon after Arkin's name was announced, and boy did he look pis*ed. At least the other nominees (and all of those that lost, not just in the Supporting category) had the decency to put on a happy face to face their loss.
#41re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 10:10pm
"That completely untrue. Murphy passed on performing on the telecast from the very beginning and only the three women and Keith Robinson were ever slated to appear (and were the only ones who rehearsed that medley with Condon)."
Thanks, Margo.
So many people were "expecting" Eddie Murphy to win, that I really can't blame him for leaving after his portion of the awards were announced. I didn't see it as being a poor sport so much as trying to keep a low profile. Yes it would have been better to have stayed and supported his cast mates, but if I were in the same position I would probably want to duck out early rather than answer the same question over and over again - provided that I didn't have any other responsibilities that night. Had he left the rest of the cast hanging during the performance number I would feel different, but as it stands I actually feel like he might have been trying to keep the spotlight off of himself.
/just my theory.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#42re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 10:14pm
Thanks Margo, I didn't realize.
Recently, a cast mate of mine was thrown out of a show two hours before because he was on probation (due to bad grades), he stayed and watched the show to support us.
A very embarrasing situation he was in, but he still supported us. I think it was important for Murphy to stay just for the sake of watching is cast mates. Even if he left just after their performance it would've been fine.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
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#43re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 10:39pm
Without getting into the rights and wrongs of Murphy's behavior here, friends of mine who've been at the Oscars have told me that it's FAR from uncommon for people not to stay for the entire four hour telecast -- whether they lose or not. While it may not look like it on tv, it's extremely uncomfortable to sit there in formal wear under hot television lights for hour after hour, which is why they have so many seat-fillers -- at any given time, dozens of people are out at the bar, in the bathroom, taking a cigarette break etc..... Friends have told me that you often see people spending an hour or more of the telecast at the bar or hanging out with friends and several early losers leave the theater entirely. I'm not making excuses for Murphy, but just know that he was far from the only one who exited that four hour slog of a telecast early -- he apparently was just the only major name who got caught doing so this year by US Magazine (and it probably wouldn't have been a big deal or even reported to begin with if so many people weren't seemingly so pre-disposed to dislike him and anything he says or does).
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Updated On: 2/26/07 at 10:39 PM
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#44re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 11:33pmMargo - you are the voice of reason. Would you like to be the US representative to the UN?
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#45re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 11:40pm
Anyone remember Faith Hill's face when she lost that one award (I don't remember what it was)? THAT was priceless. Hilarious.
Just seemed kind of alike.
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#46re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 11:49pm
Parks, I'm fairly sure that Faith was just joking around during that incident, but we'll never know the whole story.
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Updated On: 2/26/07 at 11:49 PM
#47re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 11:56pm
Some of you are the same people who say that actors have no obligation to come out of the SD. It seems like the same circumstance...You should judge somebody by their performance, (in regards to The Oscars) not their attitude.
Edited for spelling.
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Updated On: 2/27/07 at 11:56 PM
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#48re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/26/07 at 11:59pmOnly we're not Academy voters.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#49re: Sore Losers Suck
Posted: 2/27/07 at 12:04am
Rav, the SD is different than the Oscars. The Oscars is a celebration of your craft and your peers. You are there to encourage your peers and celebrate their work.
The stage door is just the thing you pass through to go home...totally different.
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