How Much Longer Will the Academy Tolerate Brett Ratner? [UPDATED]

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It’s been a rough week for Brett Ratner, whose big, ostensibly crowd-pleasing ensemble comedy Tower Heist debuted to lukewarm box-office figures and whose promotional endeavors have found him invoking his sexual history and bedroom technique to cringe-inducing effect. Today Ratner apologized for a “joke” he made over the weekend, responding to a viewer during a Tower Heist Q&A that “rehearsal’s for fags.” Wait, what? This is the guy co-producing the forthcoming Academy Awards? [UPDATE: Now he’s a homophobe and a liar.]

Of course, this is the second time in as many months that Ratner has had to issue a mea culpa for insensitively made remarks. At least back in September, when the 41-year-old filmmaker apologized for a Tower Heist joke referring to Ben Stiller’s character as “little seizure boy,” he was making amends for a line in the film that he didn’t even write. (Actor and Twitter personality Greg Grunberg, the father of an epileptic son, spoke out for a Tower Heist boycott before Ratner issued his regrets.)

His gay slur, however, was evidently all Ratner:

The director was answering questions from the audience after introducing the movie at the Arclight Hollywood cineplex.

“The audience was stunned,” one person who was present told TheWrap. At least one person walked out, upset over the reference. […] The exchange went like this, according to a video of the event that was posted on the internet but later removed:

Q: So you get this entire group of actors together — what was rehearsal like?

A: Rehearsal? What’s that? Rehearsal’s for fags. Rehearsal. Not much. A lot of prep, preparation, complex action sequences, visual

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