Posted on 07/11/2010 3:59:49 PM PDT by TaraP
It's interesting to try to divine the chicken-and-egg of Mel Gibson's firing by WME last week: Was it his (first-alleged, now aurally proved) misogynistic and racist comments that enabled the agency to part ways with him, or was it the death of longtime agent Ed Limato that did the trick?
Earlier today the news surfaced that William Morris Endeavor had split with Gibson last week-- as Limato lay seriously ill, and just several days after Radar Online broke the news that Gibson had verbally abused his girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva by using the N-word. (The reports were just that until today, when audio of the Gibson incident was released on Radar.)
There's of course a third variable in all this -- the fact that Gibson just wasn't much of a bankable star anymore anyway.
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No, someone else posted that quote.
“I thought it was illegal to tape someone without their consent?”
I’m not a lawyer, but I think in most jurisdictions only one party to the conversation has to consent. Maryland is a famous exception.
Your racist ass agreed with the quote even if you don’t have the guts to repeat it.
If you are white then you are a pathetic obama voter. If you are black then you are a reparations wanting layabout POS.
Either way I would rather be dead than to be you.
We shall see.
My suspicion is that such "foibles" are overlooked when/if someone does a great movie. If Gibson is still up to it, he will draw an audience even in middle America.
Actual murder, rape, etc. Now those might be "foibles" that people will close their wallet to.
Some don't even use the word they just "imply" it..
Barry Half-White could be seen as a Whiggar..
“When it came to treating her citizens of African descent fairly, America failed. She put them in chains, the government put them on slave quarters, put them on auction blocks, put them in cotton field, put them in inferior schools... put them in scientific experiments...”
So, it is your opinion that only a liberal could believe that America failed by putting African Americans into slavery and into scientific experiments?
Unless someone decides they really want to make Mad Max 4 ...
Obviously!
You have no CLUE what COPS hear when they arrest DRUNKS!
Actually what MEL said was quite tame..
And a federal government that has "race?" as question #2 on their decennial national census is what?
What's good for the goose...
You just described 90% of Hollywood. As long as those types stay in Hollywood, Middle America is free of them.
I’m sorry, I am not willing to excuse people for their actions or words simply because they had a bit too much alcohol.
Will Obozo be inviting Mel for a Beer Summit at the White House? LOL...
America has paid for this mistake over and over. Maybe you and these Shebaz assholes aren't happy but tough. You and your kind will get reparations from me in lead.
And yes, you are a liberal.
Well it sucks to be you IMO...
I have forgave many of people for what they have said with no regret.
In fact I forgave a Drunk (Driver) a repeat offender who Killed my brother by running a red light. My brother was only 17 yrs old....
“America has paid for this mistake over and over.”
I’m not quite sure America has paid for the “mistake” of slavery, but even if it has paid for that “mistake,” it does not minimize that mistake or absolve America of slavery and placing African Americans in scientific experiments.
And Slavery should never be scrubbing from our history books.
Hollywood does not care if you can forgive Mel, they only care if the marketplace will forgive Mel.
Quite right.
Reagan was so right when he said that conservatives have simple solutions to complex problems. Not easy solutions, simple solutions.
All politics is local, beginning in each individual's travails with temptation.
Mel, take it from a fellow traveler who suffers the same "curse" of booze as you. There's a very simple solution and it is in the palm of your hand, in the core of your heart.
QUIT DRINKING ALCOHOL and move on.
It really is that simple. Not easy. Simple.
Man up to the things that can't be excused, take 'em in the jaw, and face your future: with or without booze? Hmmmm ... Curtain #1 or Curtain #2 .... You're the only one involved -- we come into this world alone, brother, and we go out alone. Redemption for you and your career begins then.
*sigh* Too bad he'll never read this.
What's good for the goose...
So...because the Federal government inappropriately asks citizens their race in the Census, it follows that Gibson is justified in screaming, "You look like a f***ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n***ers, it will be your fault."?
That's an, um, interesting way of looking at it.
It won’t be.
It is you liberals who are always trying to rewrite history.
Face it, you are alone in your obama support here on FR.
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