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ABC Pulls Mel Gibson Holocaust Miniseries: Report
Yahoo! News (Reuters) ^ | 8/1/2006 | n/a

Posted on 08/01/2006 6:16:29 AM PDT by Pyro7480

ABC pulls Mel Gibson Holocaust miniseries: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The ABC television network has pulled a miniseries about the Holocaust it was developing with Mel Gibson's production company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, quoting an unidentified representative for the network.

Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving early on Friday and was reported to have launched into a tirade against Jews, asking the arresting officer if he was a Jew and blaming the Jews for starting all wars.

The actor, who holds strong conservative Catholic religious and political views and whose father is a Holocaust denier, apologized on Saturday.

The incident has raised questions about the future of projects Gibson and his Icon Productions company are working on, like the ABC television miniseries based on a memoir about a Dutch Jew during World War II, the newspaper said.

An ABC representative told the paper, without elaborating, it has been two years and the network still has not seen a script, so the project is being pulled.

A spokesperson for ABC, which is owned by Walt Disney Co., could not be reached for comment.

Disney's movie studio arm still plans to release Gibson's self-financed Mayan-language movie "Apocalypto" on December 8, Hollywood's trade papers reported. The Web site Slate.com quoted Walt Disney Studios president Oren Aviv as saying he accepted Gibson's apology.


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abc; disney; gibson; hollywood; holocaust; melgibson; miniseries
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To: Accygirl

Well, it really doesn't matter what I think. Hollywood is concerned with one thing only, money. If the series will make money, some network will pick it up.


41 posted on 08/01/2006 6:11:06 PM PDT by Gerish (Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.)
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To: isthisnickcool

But don't worry, he's just a "whacko douche"!


42 posted on 08/02/2006 12:56:41 PM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: isthisnickcool

But don't worry, he's just a "whacko douche"!


43 posted on 08/02/2006 12:57:02 PM PDT by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: Pyro7480
"Are they trying to imply that people who hold strong conservative Catholic religious and political views are all Jew-haters?"

As I recall from my 12 years of Catechism lessons in Catholic school...any who do not believe in God and worship him according Roman Catholic doctrine will not go to heaven.

If anyone were to actually say "Jews will not go to heaven" would that be taken as anti-semitic?

So if my understanding of Roman Catholic doctrine is correct would it not follow that the church is anti-semitic?

Of course we all know that Hezbollah is "The Party of God"...so we should all become Hezbos or we are guilty of rejecting God.

44 posted on 08/02/2006 1:09:37 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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