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After a long day staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
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Deadline reports that the Family Guy creator turned oddly tanned celebrity has been asked to come back in 2014, cementing the rise of the good-looking comedy guy who acts like a jerk and accuses his detractors of being humorless or worse whenever a joke offends or angers them.
After a long day staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Chelsea Handler signs a new deal, the Oscars are charging a lot for ads, NBC ditches a good show (not Community), and Bethenny Frankel is in trouble.
Ladies and gentleman, an Oscar host that needs no introduction because you've seen him nine times before, Billy Crystal is replacing Eddie Murphy.
It's now official that Brian Grazer, spiky-headed producer of roughly a billion movies, has stepped in to replace the disgraced Brett Ratner as producer of next year's big, glittery Republican National Convention Oscars ceremony. This is a good choice!
Kelly Ripa will be on television forever, a first look at the new Snow White, and Jessica Chastain continues her reign, quite literally.
Less than a day after Brett Ratner resigned from his post as a producer of next year's Oscars ceremony amid some unfortunate soundbite controversy, his chosen host Eddie Murphy has pulled out as well. So everyone is forced to wonder: Who's gonna host the damn Oscars now?? Luckily, we have some ideas.
The Oscars are starting from scratch.
Brett Ratner quit! The Oscars are saved! But is Brett Ratner? And, actually, are the Oscars?
Under fire for, well, being Brett Ratner (and most recently saying "rehearsal is for fags"), the Tower Heist director has tendered his resignation as a producer of the 84th Academy Awards.
Brett Ratner has been on a bit of an apology tour over the past couple days for saying stupid things, and it's all very embarrassing. For Ratner, sure, but also for the Academy.
Brian Grazer finds a home for the Dark Tower TV series, how to market an Oscar hopeful that's rated NC-17, and Sylvester Stallone's rag-tag-mercenary movie may not have been his own idea.
Plus: Ratner passed on Jerry Seinfeld as Oscar Host for Eddie Murphy
Oscars producer Brett Ratner has landed his pick for hosting duties
The number of nominees will be somewhere between five and ten
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