Should we give Mel Gibson credence?

newlacesleeves · Post by **newlacesleeves** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 1:55 pm

Hey.. Christie Brinkley's husband cheated on her, and for some reason it's been headline news in NYC for the past month.. I mean CHRISTIE BRINKLEY!!.. She's about as relevant as a loaf of bread from 1986... I think Mel Gibson going on an anti-semitic tirade is at least just as newsworthy as that..

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 2:34 pm

newlacesleeves wrote:Hey.. Christie Brinkley's husband cheated on her, and for some reason it's been headline news in NYC for the past month.. I mean CHRISTIE BRINKLEY!!.. She's about as relevant as a loaf of bread from 1986... I think Mel Gibson going on an anti-semitic tirade is at least just as newsworthy as that..

I guess it doesn't say much for the general public, but we already knew that. We're living in a culture (at least in Britain, Canada and the US) that has a very unhealthy obsession with celebrity. Our favorite story is of the (movie star, athlete, musician, celebrityfornoreason, politician) that gets humiliated - this week it's been Mel and Floyd Landis and Mr. Christie Brinkley.

Stories about the Congo just don't sell.

Hey - this is a two page Mel Gibson thread. I'm guessing it would get more responses than a Congo thread or even an Israel/Lebanon thread.

Is it just easier to have an opinion or to express an opinion on Mel than it is to talk about the Congo? Do we feel more passionate about what Mel said than we do about the conflict(s) in the mid-east?

I'm guessing in a way we do.

Anyway - Jodie Foster is sticking up for him. I'm already boycotting her shit; a downhill ride since "The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane" -

"Is he an anti-Semite? Absolutely not," Foster told the newspaper for a story in Friday's editions. "But it's no secret that he has always fought a terrible battle with alcoholism."

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 10:16 pm

I think this is an important dialogue to have. It does not matter who the players are. Religion is a big part of what makes up a person's character.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:46 pm

Boy With A Problem wrote:
noiseradio wrote:I'm all done with Mel Gibson. And what makes it different than "The COlumbus Incident" is everything except the drink.
This is really interesting - what does it mean to be "done" with someone?

In this case, it means I will no longer contribute monetarily to Mel Gibson if it's at all avoidable. It means I'm very unlikely to go see one of his films (admittedly, I almost never do anyway). I do think the artist and the art can be evaluated separately, but while Mel Gibson is still collecting checks, I think I'll skip his stuff. I'll probably avoid his earlier films, too. Not too difficult (although I may occasionally be tempted by Road Warrior). Maybe in a few years, after real change is evident, I'll change my mind. Maybe there's some possible project he could become involved in that would be worthy of an exception. But right now, I don't want to see anything he's in or support him in any way.

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:39 pm

I think everyone with a decent position in hollywood is an idiot. That includes Mel Gibson, jewish editors and christian editors. The way they have manipulated the masses is sick and wrong.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:02 am

Extreme Honey wrote:I think everyone with a decent position in hollywood is an idiot.

LOL! Generalization could be the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

On one of our tours when the t-shirts had all but sold out and there was a week left so it was time to order some more our guitarist said "No XL shirts; we're going to Spain. Everyone's really short there." That's the first time we toured Spain, I don't think he'd been there before and I'm almost certain he based that statement on non-spaniard Andrew Sachs, who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers.