Eddie Murphy did not like losing the Academy Award for best supporting actor to Alan Arkin last night. He split the show exit stage left! as soon Arkins name was announced.
Murphy didnt stay to see Jennifer Hudson win best supporting actress in "Dreamgirls" or his fellow castmates Hudson, Beyonce, Keith Robinson and Anoki Noni Rose perform the shows nominated songs in a stellar staging by "Dreamgirls" director/writer Bill Condon, who wasn't an Oscar nominee.
That may have been the problem with "Dreamgirls" all along, as Ive suggested before: Much as the movie depends on a song called We Are A Family, the cast could not be marketed that way. From the beginning, Murphy acted as a loner. He was the lone holdout at the Cannes Film Festival last year when 20 minutes of the movie was shown to distributors and press.