Posted on 09/26/2006 8:40:06 PM PDT by jdm
While Mel Gibson secretly roams the United States testing reaction to his latest movie, "Apocalypto," one of television's longest running shows has decided to incorporate his recent legal troubles into an episode.
Staying true to its "ripped from the headlines" style, "Law & Order," says it will air an episode on November 3 starring comedian Chevy Chase as a celebrity who is pulled over for drunk driving and then delivers an anti-Semitic rant at the arresting officers.
But "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf said that while a viewer could draw comparisons to Gibson's anti-Semitic comments after being arrested for drunk driving last July, the TV story goes a bit further.
In the "Law & Order" episode, the Chase character turns out to have blood on his shirt belonging to a Jewish woman who had been the producer of his failed sitcom.
Gibson pleaded no contest to drunk driving charges and was placed on probation. He is currently getting "Apocalypto" ready for release in December by showing it to test audiences. Over the weekend, he screened it in Oklahoma and Texas.
The film is set in an ancient Mayan Indian empire and filmed in Mayan dialect. When Gibson screened the film in Texas, the Hollywood Reporter said he compared the U.S. troop deployment in Iraq to the kind of human sacrifice shown in the movie.
Those comments raised some eyebrows in Hollywood where many people still have not accepted his apologies for making anti-Semitic comments when he was arrested.
"Law & Order" just began its 17th season in a new Friday time slot. Wolf, in an interview with Reuters, said he hoped to keep the program on air for four more years, giving it a grand total of 21 years.
If Wolf could do that, he would beat the record for longest running scripted series set by "Gunsmoke," the Western which lasted 20 years on TV.
COOL I want see that episode
Actually I think right now SVU better show JDM
interesting
Sometimes, at least on SVU, instead of the "...purely coincidental" blurb, they'll say something to the effect of "Although based partly on true events, blah blah blah this story is fictional."
Stuned beeber?! :O)
I think ever since Jerry Orbach died I think SVU is better show CI is okay but Law and Order MOTHERSHIP lost its touch
Agreed. Regularly watch SVU, not so much L&O.
I would expect such a vile sentiment from the most detestable of left-wing America haters. Mr Gibson is totally lost. He has no soul.
Situation series, but not HUGH!
Law & Order has its moments. They had an episode where a soldier serving in Iraq is accused of shooting a reporter because he gave away troop locations that killed the soldier's buddies. In the end, it turns out that the reporter faked the whole thing (defends it by claiming that the military is telling bigger lies)
They also had an episode where the sister of one of the terrorists roughed up at Abu Graib kills one of the soldiers who was there. The terrorist was found guilty (her lawyer defended her actions as simply what an American would do if an Abu Graib happened during an Iraqi invasion of America, thus showing his stupidity about the differences between America and Saddam's Iraq.)
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