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| 2006-11-30 |
| Mel Gibson Feels Michael Richards' Pain NEW YORK (Nov. 29) - Though he's lost many "I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don't need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. Just warped morals or twisted world view will do the job. But my heart went out to the guy." And then got snapped back by my publicist like a bungee cord diver. The 50-year-old actor-director added: "They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him." "He's got politically correct victim written all over him, just like me." After his Nov. 17 tirade became known, Richards apologized on David Letterman's "Late Show" on CBS, saying his remarks were sparked by anger at being heckled, not bigotry. He also apologized to the Rev. Al Sharpton and on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's syndicated radio program. Kissing @ss of that sort can only be done under the most extreme and excusable duress. Not even Mel went that far ... yet. Gibson, star of the "Lethal Weapon" movies and director of "The Passion of the Christ," was mired in a scandal of his own this summer for anti-Semitic comments he made to police in Malibu, Calif., during his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving. He publicly apologized. "It was my father talking." Are people refusing to work with him? "No, people aren't like that," Gibson tells the magazine. "Those are just the headlines: Mel ostracized by Hollywood! Hollywood is what you make it. Never have Hollyweird's morals been so ariculately encapsulated. There is no great pooh-bah up there saying, `Go! You are condemned!"' Perhaps not, but there's still your conscience, if you have one. Gibson says he's not anti-Semitic. He just blames them for all of the world's wars, that's all. "I never have been and never would be," he says. "But (the incident) hit this fear thing in me. My god, I made people afraid. ... And it was a horrible feeling. That's when I said, `My god, I don't want to be that monster."' Then STFU and work against such vile disinformation instead of spewing it in your movie. His new movie, "Apocalypto," from The Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Pictures, opens Dec. 8. It is a Mayan-language epic filmed in Mexico chronicling the decline of the native civilization. He's confident his past remarks will not hurt the movie at the box office. I'm not. We'll see. "It's primarily entertainment," he says of his production. "An 18-year-old college guy, out with his buddies, he's going to get into the chase. The movie will stand on its own, regardless of any unfortunate experience I may have stumbled upon." |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #4 Excal I think the Scotts have another opinion of his film. What the English did there was nothing short of rape for land. For that matter the movie Patriot was brilliant. What anti-troop comments did Gibson make? I'd sure like to know, that one sent a chill up my spine. What a pity if it's true. For Shame. Richard lacks balls. If I were in his shoes I'd have gone off ten ways from Sunday. Getting racist puke from black punks in the audience... He had every right to throw schit back in their faces. I saw the video and he sure shut them up. Oh wait my mistake, blacks can't be racist... This PC bullshit has got to stop. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-11-30 15:28 |
| #3 Gibson's grotesque anti-British films have been one string of lies after another. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2006-11-30 10:07 |
| #2 Mysterious decline of the Mayas... Apocalypto... caused by the evil joooooooooos |
| Posted by: anon1 2006-11-30 09:34 |
| #1 Previews are saying Gibson's new movie is sucking harder than a Dyson - almost up to Lewinsky levels of vacuum. Dunno - I never planned to see it. Mel blew it with me when he did his anti-US troops tirade (his attempt to kissass with the Leftywood crowd). |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2006-11-30 01:58 |