Sore Losers Suck — Page 2

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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Noooo. 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.

I 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.

I knew it was either Plummer or Kline. Thanks for the clarification.

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Eddie was crying all the way home, until he passed a transvestite hooker..... then......

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.

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^ 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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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.

"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.

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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

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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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

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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