Posted on 07/28/2006 10:12:47 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Nah. Hollyweird will embrace him as one of their own and forgive him for "Passion". ;)
I doubt that.
I don't know how this would apply to someone if they had been on the wagon for awhile and started drinking again.
Is there something in the water out there that makes people crazy?
We'll see....
I think he fell off the wagon big time with all the stress over the Passion. After that movie, he was acting pretty nuts (well even more nuts)and seemed to age about 20 years which I suspect is from the booze. Also, a big side effect from alcoholism is self destruction which may be the reason for his comments. It all becomes about the booze after a while, and if the career or job gets in the way of that, you destroy it, conciously or subconciously, so you will have more time to drink (take it from one who knows). I mean what is the WORST possible thing he could have said to screw up his career? Mel has a huge booze problem, and to me that is the reason he said "My life is f****d." Now it probably really is because they taped everything he said.
It doesn't change the truth of the movie. :)
I am one who knows as well. I believe your observation is spot on. And, like you, when I read "I'm F**KED, the first thing I thought of was that he wasn't talking about his career, he was talking about his family. If it's all out in the open...well...you know.
I wasn't ranting. I transposed the decimal in the alcohol level, sorry, I meant .12, and I forgot the arresting officer was in the Sheriff's dept and not LAPD. My mistakes.
Still, I do believe the officer(s) and I cannot by any wild stretch condone what Mel Gibson did. Can you?
Gibson netted, according to reports, nearly $700 million from The Passion.
His "career" is managing his money; he doesn't have to do any more movies, though he directs more now than acts in them.
Ahhhh...I see you have finally come to embrace reality. TMZ (Time-Warner/AOL) obviously has a friend inside the LAPD; aside from that, they would never make up a story as radioactive as this one.
At first, the cops tried to sanitize the circumstances of the arrest, but the arresting PO was evidently PO'd enough to write everything down very carefully. In my opinion, it went down as the officer wrote it. And, IMO, this episode has tainted the movie that his fans always denied had any Jew-hatred in it. Harder to defend now, eh?
OK, I'll revise that so people stop writing to me....TO ME, his career is over....added to the list of people I will not give money to anymore. OK? :)
In addition, your career has nothing to do with how much money you have.
Are you kidding? His behavior and words have eliminated all possibilities of his having any class at all.
Me, I'm not about to cast aspersions on anyone who babbles incoherently after having had one too many.
You could fill me full of Chivas, tequila, beer, heroin, or chocolate and I would never swear at the police. I would never speak ill of any race or religion.
To this very minute, all the radio newscasts still say that he was brought in without incident, and that an investigation is pending.
When you're intoxicated your judgment is GONE or at the very least compromised. You are NOT your true self.
Understand, I am not making excuses for Mel Gibson's behavior. As a recovering alcoholic, his fatal mistake was taking that first drink.
I never said that I would condone that kind of behaviour. But I certainly understand losing your way and being lost.
I went through holy hell two years ago here because I was hypercritical of Gibson. I didn't see The Passion until this past year, and I thought it was gratuitously bloody and went overboard with all the satan fantasies, taken from the "visions" of Catherine Emmerich.
My knee-jerk defense of him last night was, I'll admit, due to not believing he would rant about Jews in public.
This convinces me that he is just as weird as I thought he was. Worse, he appears to have absorbed his dad's anti-semitism like a sponge.
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