Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition - Defamer Comments

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

Jonny Bronson — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:46:15 PDT

Weekly Entourage/Real-Life Analysis:

Friday, 2am: Mel Gibson drives drunk, assigns blame for world conflict to Jews, sexually threatens police officers both male and female, etc.

Sunday, 7pm Eastern, 10pm Pacific: Ari Gold (Entourage character based on real-life Ari Emmanuel of Endeavor) battles with an anti-semitic agency partner, calling him a "Hitler-loving anti-semitic cuntbag."

Monday 10am-ish: Real-life agent Ari Emmanuel (ICM character inspired by Entrourage's Ari Gold) repeats the tirade and orders Gibson boycott. (No use of the word "cuntbag" as far as we know.)

Monday 3:45pm: I dictate this observation to my gay, asian assistant and ponder the meaning of all these parallels.

Jonny Bronson

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

mr hotpants — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:36:21 PDT

I have a whole new respect for this guy now...well done.

mr hotpants

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

pseudopsych — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:55:15 PDT

Can we stand up against this ' I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry' movie? It's premise is so offensive, it makes 'Boat Trip' seem like a Logo Channel original!

pseudopsych

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

Double Banger — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:45:32 PDT

I will make that pledge, Mr. Emanuel! I hereby promise that I will never personally hire Mel Gibson.

Unless, of course, he agrees to work under the SAG Experimental agreement, to which all my films are subject. I mean, who could pass that up?

But, other than that, I will never personally give Mel Gibson a million or bijillion dollars.

Now let's all go down to Marina Del Rey and dump boxes of Lethal Weapon DVDs into the harbor.

Double Banger

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

King of All Hacks — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:38:32 PDT

Wow, a titan of an industry that thrives on the dehumanizing of underlings is outraged, OUTRAGED, by someone else's dehumanizing remarks.

King of All Hacks

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

TedSez — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:44:58 PDT

When Mel says:

"To be anti-Semitic is a sin. It's been condemned by one Papal Council after another. There's encyclicals on it, which is, you know -- to be anti-Semitic is to be unchristian, and I'm not."

What he's really saying is: Thinking antisemitic thoughts is wrong, so you shouldn't do it -- no matter how much you really, really want to.

TedSez

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

valleyview — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:44:07 PDT

I wonder if Jeff Berg will fire Mel as a client. Ed Limato would never have it. If Mel made an equally offensive comment about black people, would it be different? I wonder where the line between cash and hypocrisy in Hollywood is truly drawn.

valleyview

Ari's Frustration Of The Day: Boycotting Mel Gibson Edition

BoHan — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:41:15 PDT

At times like this, even we lapsed Catholics feel guilty.

BoHan