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Once again, disgraced Hollywood star Mel Gibson has found himself in a scandal involving charges of anti-Semitism.
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has accused the Lethal Weapon star of 'hating Jews,' following the rejection of his screenplay for Gibson's planned epic about the legendary Jewish warrior Judah Maccabee.
Gibson, who has faced charges of anti-Semitism in the past, announced the controversial project last September. Eszterhas, writer of such hits as Basic Instinct and Flashdance, was hired to pen the script.
According to Entertainment Weekly, that script was rejected by Gibson and Warner Bros. in February.
Now Eszterhas has accused the star of making anti-Semitic comments and of having never intended to actually make the film.
In a letter obtained by The Wrap, the scribe accuses Gibson of having ulterior motives for wanting to make the film. Gibson, Eszterhas writes, wanted to make a film about the story of Maccabee "in an attempt to deflect continuing charges of anti-Semitism which have dogged you, charges which have crippled your career."
The writer says that while working together, Gibson used numerous slurs in reference to the Jewish people.
"You continually called Jews 'Hebes' and 'oven-dodgers' and 'Jewboys.' It seemed that most times when we discussed someone, you asked 'He's a Hebe, isn't he?' You said most 'gatekeepers' of American companies were 'Hebes' who 'controlled their bosses.'"
According to TMZ, Gibson has responded to Eszterhas' letter with one of his own.
"Honestly, Joe, not only was the script delivered later than you promised, both Warner Brothers and I were extraordinarily disappointed with the draft. In 25 years of script development I have never seen a more substandard first draft or a more significant waste of time. The decision not to proceed with you was based on the quality of your script, not on any other factor.'
I think this guy is kookoo for cocoapuffs! He never knows when to quit!
11 Answers
FISH-O
Ducky
Ann
jhharlan
lindilou
doolittle
This weekend I saw Mel ranting at that guy...there was a tape of him screaming at him...they blocked out the explatives...but there was nothing anti-semitic that I heard. He does have major anger issues. Lets face it there are a bunch of messed up peeps in Hollywood! He makes me laugh and is a pretty good actor/director..I uess he's like Mike Ditka (Old NFL Coach) He's a screamer.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 13 | |
Shootah
It's hard not to feel sorry for celebrities in how vicious and invasive tabloids are in making money off of bringing them down.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
valR
Some great artist have/had grave personal/personality problems. A very good example is CARAVAGGIO. Read on and read through please...
Caravaggio (Italian pronunciation: [kara?vadd?o]; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque school of painting.[1]
Caravaggio trained as a painter in Milan under a master who had himself trained under Titian. In his early twenties Caravaggio moved to Rome where, during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, many huge new churches and palazzi were being built and paintings were needed to fill them. During the Counter-Reformation the Roman Catholic Church searched for religious art with which to counter the threat of Protestantism, and for this task the artificial conventions of Mannerism, which had ruled art for almost a century, no longer seemed adequate. Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of chiaroscuro. This came to be known as Tenebrism, the shift from light to dark with little intermediate value. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600 with the success of his first public commissions, the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and Calling of Saint Matthew. Thereafter he never lacked commissions or patrons, yet he handled his success atrociously. He was jailed on several occasions, vandalized his own apartment, and ultimately had a death warrant issued for him by the Pope.[2] An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how "after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him."[3] In 1606 he killed a young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head. He was involved in a brawl in Malta in 1608, and another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. This encounter left him severely injured. A year later, at the age of 38, he died of a fever in Porto Ercole, near Grosseto in Tuscany, while on his way to Rome to receive a pardon.
Infamous while he lived, Caravaggio was forgotten almost immediately after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered. Despite this, his influence on the new Baroque style that eventually emerged from the ruins of Mannerism was profound. It can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Bernini, and Rembrandt, and artists in the following generation heavily under his influence were called the "Caravaggisti" or "Caravagesques", as well as Tenebrists or "Tenebrosi" ("shadowists"). Andre Berne-Joffroy, Paul Valéry's secretary, said of him: "What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting."[4]
| 12 years ago. Rating: 12 | |
Bob/PKB
Seven years ago, I had the unfortunate pleasure of becoming acquainted with Mel's wife and one of his sons. During the course of time, I encountered Mr. Gibson on one occasion. He seemed high strung, anxious, and was "take charge and direct traffic" (literally). He was also cordial and courteous. (His wife and son were wonderful people).
Like Ducky and Ann, I'll withhold my vote for now.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
Tommyh
He said it all to Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon 2."We're back.We're bad.You're black.I'm mad". I love his work & the fact that he started out in Australia.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
facebook
It's my guess he has an issue with anger or temper, after making violent movies like he does would haft to be in your blood, My suggestion is to take a temper management program.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 11 | |
Funny, Fishlet! :)
