I’m wondering what Mel Gibson would have to do at this stage in his public unraveling to salvage some part of his image. He might shoot an email to Tom Cruise and ask how his fellow actor managed a similar trick in the wake of the latter’s Oprah-couch-jumping episode. But even so, after all was said and done and YouTubed, Cruise appeared merely to be worthy of our ridicule. A pathetic specimen of evolutional immaturity determined to display what he doesn’t know. Gibson, on the other hand, has orbited into the supernova realm of galactic scariness. His documented abusiveness has become an unavoidable media spectacle, and for once I support the exposure. Haters don’t deserve protection. Even those who get top billing.
This week’s New York Magazine contains a page entitled “The Mel Gibson Meltdown Quiz” wherein 10 quotes are posted in dialogue balloons over the actor’s angry head, and the reader has to guess which ones are from movies in which he played a crazy person, and which are from the tape recordings that revealed he is a crazy person. The real-life quotes are way more harrowing. To wit:
“You think I’m crazy? You call me crazy, you think I’m crazy? You wanna see crazy?” (Lethal Weapon)
– versus –
“I’ll put you in a fucking rose garden – I’m capable of it!” (not acting)
or
“I’m the guy with nothing to lose.” (Edge of Darkness)
– versus –
“You make my life so fucking difficult . . . you make me want to smoke.” (not acting)
**Bonus**
“Listen to my ranting!” (still not acting)
I think all of this is so interesting to me right now because 1) I’m between school semesters so my mind is in neutral, and 2) there’s something satisfying in seeing a miserable bigot deservedly outed. It’s like the air is a little cleaner for having sucked some poison out of a dark corner. We’ll see if Gibson imitates the Dog Chapman Crusade For Redemption march, or if his own foul chemistry banishes him to a luxury condo in a city with no name. Either way, it makes me happy I chose the Die Hard series over the boxed set of Lethal Weapons when my first marriage ended and we divided up the movies. Hang in there, Bruce, hang in there.
Daughter’s Featured Fotos say Bye To July
the 4th
sunset on the dock
princess frostine at gay pride
rainy day bridge