Brett Ratner's Apologies: The Final Stand

By John Mitchell Brett Ratner is presently on some kind of apology tour after utilizing an anti-gay slur throughout an issue-and-answer session while marketing "Tower Heist." His latest atonement, carrying out a formal apology and the resignation as producer of next year's Academy awards, is, like Tracy Morgan before him, to synergy with GLAAD to "convene public discussions featuring leaders within the entertainment industry about marketing fair and accurate inclusions of LGBT people and tales." "Whenever we sitting lower with Brett today, he appeared very sincere in the wish to use this experience in an effort to begin talking against anti-gay language in popular culture, Herndon Graddick, GLAAD's senior director of Programs and Communications, stated inside a statement. That's all fine and dandy and, obviously, it's admirable that he's a little responsibility for saying something as foolish as "Testing is perfect for f**s." But seriously. Exactly why is nobody calling this person on the rest of the things he's been stating that he ought to be apologizing for? Namely the misogynistic and racist remarks he earned about Olivia Munn and Lindsay Lohan. Let us begin with the grossest of all of the frat-guy trash this dude has offered up lately. Throughout a phone call to Howard Stern's radio show, Ratner entered rather graphic detail about his relationship having a "very youthful" Lindsay Lohan. He boasted about carrying out dental sex on Lohan, saying, "I am most likely the very best on the planet,Inch adding he knows he's the very best "simply because they cry." Younger crowd accepted he'd Lohan examined for STDs prior to the two rested together in 2006 you realize, when she was 20 and that he was 37. "Before I have sexual intercourse having a girl, I actually do do one strange factor, Ratner told Stern. I actually do take em towards the physician and appearance em out. Im just like a cootie freak. Im a germaphobe. Im a hypochondriac. Before Time passes completely, I send the lady towards the physician and appearance them for everything. My physician includes a test to inform if you are likely to catch something later on even. For that record, Lohan returned clean. Shouldn't you be glad you will know? He continued to recount how Lohan later found him in mattress having a Victoria's Secret model and also the two experienced a battle over him. Inside a separate but equally stylish and appropriate conversation on G4's "Attack from the Show," Ratner copped to being the un named director pointed out in Olivia Munn's book "Suck It, Question Lady: The Misadventures of the Hollywood Geek," acknowledging he "bumped her a couple of occasions" but didn't remember who she was when she later arrived to audition for him. He did, however, deny Munn's account he masturbated before her while eating a shrimp cocktail, but did not really undertake her charge he was, er, packing a shrimp of their own. While all of the sex discuss Munn and Lohan is patently tasteless, it's another quote about Munn that will get under my skin more. "I made use of up to now Olivia Munn when she was Lisa. Which was the issue,Inch he told "AOTS" host Kevin Pereira. "She wasn't Asian in those days.Inch What? His point, I guess, is the fact that Munn now allegedly plays up her race like it's some kind of Hollywood wild card. That possibly it's some kind of joke when she does a study on "The Daily Show" since it's "Senior Asian Correspondent" since it wasn't listed like a talent on her behalf resume when he first met "Lisa." This is a pretty crazy factor to toss available so offhandedly, yes? In the beginning, I thought the Academy made the incorrect choice in giving Ratner the reins around the greatest evening in Hollywood. He's a financially effective director, yes, but younger crowd includes a well-deserved status for frat boy antics and lowbrow humor, neither which have place in the Oscars. Say what you should concerning the Academy awards namely that they'll be boring but they are not lowbrow and given Ratner's recent string of public misfires, specially the ones he has not apologized for, "lowbrow" is nearly the only real word we are able to think about to explain the almost-Oscar producer. Inform us what you believe within the comments section as well as on Twitter!