You're right. When Gibson gets drunk, he starts talking like his father. Those childhood lessons apparently took a deep hold. Unfortunately, there's no way he can ever apologize for this, or ever hope that people will see The Passion of the Christ as anything but an anti-Semitic rant now, regardless of its other merits. For all his excesses on other issues, Foxman is just telling it like it is in this case. Gibson is through in Hollywood.
You can dream and hope, Jeeves. Just remember--DeMille wasn't a saint, either.
well put
You're right...so what if he apologizes. He's sorry he said it out loud...of course he is. But that doesn't mean he doesn't truly think it...which, of course, he does. So now everyone knows and he did that to himself. No sympathy and no more money to Mel Gibson films. That's it.
Foxman said what he really thinks and so did Mel. So be it.
agree.
"Unfortunately, there's no way he can ever apologize for this"
Oh really? Who did he kill?
Blaming Gibson's daddy is pathetic.
We're days out from the incident, so let's not read too much into it. Gibson said some reprehensible things when he was s---faced. here's some griping about it. It'll pass in due time. Of all the Hollywood scandals that stretch beyond memory and over the horizon, this is only the most recent.
I mean, let's face facts -- Rob Lowe schtupped two teenagers after snorting blow off their butts, and captured the whole escapade on videotape. His career definitely suffered a setback, and he spent a few years in exile, but his career didn't end. Since that scandal, he's made far more money and appeared in more movies and on more TV series than I have. I am not experiencing a great swell of pity.
Mel Gibson is a spectacularly handsome man and a very gifted actor. He'll have plenty of work as long as his name on the poster puts butts in seats. If he suffers from this incident -- which he almost certainly will, but to what degree remains to be seen -- it will be not because of his reputation in Hollywood, but because of how he plays in Peoria.
And in the worst case scenario, if he can't headline a big-budget movie for a while, he'll do a few indie films and some stage work. He'll give a bunch of interviews and talk to James Lipton about his "craft." And even if he isn't as rich, famous or admired as he night otherwise have been, he'll still be far more so than you or I. And might actually become a better actor.
I thought American Christians made a mistake by embracing the Passion of the Christ as some kind of God-send. There is a reason God chose to have his Word written instead of trivialized by a movie...and a not-so-good movie at that.
Still, I really do feel bad for Mel Gibson. None of us are perfect. He cannot take back what he said, and, unfortunately, its not unreasonable to believe that there must be some anti-semitic beliefs in a person who says what he said, drunk or not.
I don't remember Foxman ever demanding her shunning. If he is a New Yorker, I expect he supports her and would voter for Hillary as president if she were to run.
Foxman is anti Mel and anti conservative more than he cares about Mel's tirade. To Foxman, Mel's outburst was more of a well-timed excuse.