But after the poor performance of Tower Heist and some insensitive remarks by Ratner, the producer dropped out of the gig and so did Murphy.

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Those exchanges followed a lengthy and sometimes bitter dispute over remarks by members of Clinton's campaign that some voters took as racially insensitive.

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