Defamer
The first round of media analysis of How Mel Gibson's Anti-Semitic Tirade Will Affect His Career has arrived, with nearly everyone agreeing that Gibson's capping of his DUI arrest by accusing the "fucking Jews" of being "responsible for all the wars in the world" could possibly have some sort of undetermined negative impact on his future ability to make movies, or on the box office prospects of Apocalypto, his upcoming, Mayan-language adventure flick whose dialogue must now be scoured for hate speech cleverly masked by the Yucatec dialect. (Zero Wolf: "The tribal elders have selected you for human sacrifice. Please report to the altar atop the sacred pyramid in one hour to accept your fate." Jaguar Paw: "You go tell those fucking Jews to kiss my ass. I own this fucking jungle, sugar tits.") A round-up of early analyses and reactions:
· The Anti-Defamation League is less than thrilled with Gibson, and ABC already seems to be stepping away from Gibson's Holocaust miniseries project, which has been downgraded from "bad idea" to "What Holocaust project? We haven't even seen a script for this thing that we're not even sure we ever agreed to." [LAT]
· Disney is unsurprisingly quiet about how Gibson's anti-Semitic remarks might affect the box office of Apocalypto, a movie that will cost them tens of millions to distribute. [Variety]
· The Passion of the Christ set up Gibson with generations of "fuck you" money, but the media shitstorm "could prove damaging" to his filmmaking brand. Ya think? [THR]
· "It's a nuclear disaster for him. I don't see how he can restore himself," said a publicist who has represented Michael Jackson. Things are pretty bad when a guy who had to explain the purchase of the Elephant Man's bones and Crisco-sponsored Boy Scout sleepovers thinks you're fucked. [AP]
Comments
i just have to say that the images you guys are finding for these freak mel entries are fantastic.
"Hey, look friend, let's just cut the shit. Now we both know why I was transferred. Everybody thinks I'm suicidal, in which case, I'm fucked and nobody wants to work with me; or they think I'm faking to draw a psycho pension, in which case, I'm fucked and nobody wants to work with me. Basically, I'm fucked. "
Meanwhile, Lohan Mom is trying desperately (and fighting a losing battle) to keep her daughter on the front page of the entertainment news by denying that she's spoiled.
Team Jew!
I hate it when my light-hearted delight in the wacky misfortunes of celebities is spoiled by an outbreak of poisonous anti-semitism. What's next, Lindsey Lohan passing out at an Aryan Youth rally?
Analysis? Oh brother. Just deport him. He sickens me.
Mel! Why couldn't you just masturbate in public like a normal celebrity?
I seem to remember during one of Herr Gibson's previous stint with das bottle his being caught in 17-year old girl's closet kissing/eating/licking/wearing her shoe? Her dad took the picture and sold it to the press. So wrong on both sides, but oh so right.
Oh, and Bohan. Meldolf is actually American. He's ours to cherise.
Damn facts keep getting in the way of a joke. Send him to Gitmo then.
Prediction: it takes a while for the fame/money train to slow down, but like Woody Allen, Mel's taken a permanent hit.
(If you don't remember or didn't read much about it in 1992-3, there were multiple allegations of creepy behavior by Allen with his young daughter - credible enough that the state of New York denied him visitation rights.)
And unlike some coked-up star who abuses him or herself, Gibson abused others - police officers and an entire religion. This won't go away.
Hey, Allen's a Jew. Hmmm.
(and yes, Allen was creepy with his adopted kids, and married one of them, whom he started having an affair with when she was about 14)
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