My response about Mel is a response to all the fawning over him personally as the second comming when his movie came out. Its not the secrets, its his arrogance. When the Passion came out, Gibson said that HIS MOVIE would for once and for all change this notion that the Jews killed Christ.( that was his response to Jewish critics).
And when actors share too much about themselves, I don't enjoy their acting or movies anymore, because now their personal rants interfere with their character in the movie. Jack Nicholson never talks all this political and social crap and so I can get into his chracter in the movies.
by the way...your home page here on Freep is very interesting and I agree with a lot of your ideas.
Good points all. What you say probably is at least part of the reason why I tend to go out of my way to avoid learning details of celebrities lives and opinions.
I think that Jack Nicholson is pretty politically active in left-wing causes -- but he is more quiet about it, so one can avoid hearing about his views, which is all I ask (although if his views were conservative, I'm not sure that they would be covered in nearly so quiet a way.) And he is a heck of an actor. I wasn't aware that Gibson was particularly vocal about his views -- at least not by comparison to the likes of the usual liberal suspects (all of whom set breathtaking standards for arrogance).
I pretty much bypassed the whole Passion thing, as I mentioned in another post, so missed the hype and commentary. I will admit that I didn't like the fact that the film was being blasted for being anti-Semitic before a screenplay had even been written -- based solely (apparently) on Gibson's statements that it would closely follow the Gospel accounts.
Which meant that the Gospels are anti-Semitic and should be banned. Not a way to win my favor. For that reason alone, I enjoyed the fact that it was a huge success when so much effort had been put into trying to torpedo it before it saw the light of day. The ornery part of me coming out. But neither my wife nor I saw the film, and probably never will.
And thanks for the comments on the home page...
Freegards,
A.