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[WebWarlock]

I live in a metro area that has two major league baseball teams, a football team, several hockey teams of various divisons and leagues. Minor league teams and a basketball team that used to be the biggest thing in the universe. Yet, we still consider Poltics our finest spectator sport. I have seen the lowest of the low here. Corruption so bad the the Federal watch dog group in DC has as many people on it's Illinois case load as all the other states put together (no shit). It's so bad that when the Feds come in to arrest someone we divide it into real corruption and Chicago-business as usual corpution.

But man, the pols in Illinois have NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING to compare to the shitheads and assholes out there in Hollywood.
I used to like Mel. He seemed like an ok guy. WOW. What the fuck was I smoking?

Warlock

[emma peel]

I understand where you're coming from, WebWarlock. I used to really like and respect Gibson way back when. That was in the day of "Tim" and "Gallipoli, when he was young, talented, and relatively unknown." He was one beautiful man, which for me to say is pretty incredible, since I'm a dyke,
However, that was then, and this is now.
I think he's a major asshole and pond scum, now.

[sam7777]

And still more on Gibson from down under:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20049844-12272,00.html
Mel's affliction seems hereditary

Affected by the booze? Perhaps. But far more affected and afflicted by his father, Hutton Gibson, one of the ravingest ratbags Australia has produced, right up there with the recently deceased Eric Butler when it comes to rancid racism. As enthusiastic in his Holocaust denials as Frederick Toben of the notorious Adelaide Institute.

Butler, Toben and Gibson, an unholy trio with connections to the detestable David Irving. Little wonder Jews across the world were so concerned at the prospect of Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ. The charge that Jews killed Christ is the original sin of anti-Semitism, an accusation to justify 2000 years of pogroms. It gave the world Zionism, the death camps and Israel. And millions of copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a book as dangerous as Mein Kampf, are still out there. It's still a bestseller in every Muslim nation.

There were hints aplenty of Jewish deicide in Gibson's film. An exercise in religious pornography, it made Mel such a hero of US Christian fundamentalists that many urged him to be a candidate for the presidency. And Gibson's had plenty of experience on the stump. When visiting Australia, Mel would rage and rant against prime minister Paul Keating and campaign for members of the Gwydir group on the far Right of the National Party. More recently he joined the lists on the Terri Schiavo case, calling the legal decision to switch off her life-support a modern crucifixion.

At the time of Passion's release, it seemed incredible that the Vatican should be supporting Gibson's marketing efforts. Bigots within the born again and Pentecostal movements had much to gain, whereas Catholicism - and American Jews - had much to fear.

With the immense profits generated by the film adding to Mel's wealth, he built Dad his own church near Hollywood where the two can practise a Catholic cultism that would scare Opus Dei. Suddenly, the Scientology of Tom Cruise and John Travolta seems comparatively benign.

Check out the rest of the article at the link above.

[Hemiola]

An excellent article, Sam--thanks for posting it.

It will be interesting to see what happens to Mad Mel now. Oh, to be sure, he will never starve, given the out-of-this-world profits from "The Passion", but all of his masks have fallen off, and he will never be able to wear them again.