Eddie Murphy has so many things to clear up! He says he’s not bitter about losing the Oscar to Alan Arkin: “I didn’t have sour grapes at all. That’s another reason I wanted to host the show — to show them that I’m down with it,†he tells Rolling Stone. He also says he’s over his beef with SNL, though he admits that he “felt shitty†about David Spade taking a swipe at him in a one-liner during “Hollywood Minute†approximately 100 years ago. Finally, Murphy rejects the idea that he’s a recluse. “Recluses are nasty, with long nails, don’t wash their ass,†he says. “I’m too vain to be a recluse.†He prefers the term “homebody,†which, fair enough. The dawn of a new Murphy sounds lovely and all, but one thing does give us pause: Murphy says that Beverly Hills Cop IV is not going to happen, so instead, he wants to turn it into a TV show about Axel Foley’s son, with Axel as the chief of police in Detroit. “I’d do the pilot, show up here and there,†he says. Hmmm … [RS]