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"&lt;img alt=\"Billy Crystal\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/11/10/1110-billy-crystal-bn-01.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Billy Crystal&lt;/strong&gt; just announced ... he's replacing &lt;strong&gt;Eddie Murphy&lt;/strong&gt; as the host for next year's Oscars show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The legendary Academy Awards host tweeted just minutes ago -- \"Am doing the Oscars so the young woman in the pharmacy will stop asking my name when I pick up my prescriptions. Looking forward to the show.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we previously reported, Murphy backed out from hosting the show yesterday -- after his friend &lt;strong&gt;Brett Ratner&lt;/strong&gt; resigned from producing it ... following uproar over a homophobic slur Ratner dropped at a film screening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will be Crystal's 9th time hosting the Oscars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\n&lt;div style=\"float: left;\"&gt;&lt;!-- relatedpoll --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;br /&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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