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Mel Gibson Feels Michael Richards' Pain
AP
NEW YORK (Nov. 29) - Though he's lost many fans after being captured on video hurling racist epithets at a comedy club audience, Michael Richards has an ally: Mel Gibson . "I felt like sending Michael Richards a note," Gibson says in an interview in Entertainment Weekly's Dec. 8 issue.

"I feel really badly for the guy. He was obviously in a state of stress. You don't need to be inebriated to be bent out of shape. But my heart went out to the guy."

The 50-year-old actor-director added: "They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him."

After his Nov. 17 tirade became known, Richards apologized on David Letterman's "Late Show" on CBS, saying his remarks were sparked by anger at being heckled, not bigotry. He also apologized to the Rev. Al Sharpton and on the Rev. Jesse Jackson's syndicated radio program.

Gibson, star of the "Lethal Weapon" movies and director of "The Passion of the Christ," was mired in a scandal of his own this summer for anti-Semitic comments he made to police in Malibu, Calif., during his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving. He publicly apologized.

Are people refusing to work with him?

"No, people aren't like that," Gibson tells the magazine. "Those are just the headlines: Mel ostracized by Hollywood! Hollywood is what you make it. There is no great pooh-bah up there saying, `Go! You are condemned!"'

Gibson says he's not anti-Semitic.

"I never have been and never would be," he says. "But (the incident) hit this fear thing in me. My god, I made people afraid. ... And it was a horrible feeling. That's when I said, `My god, I don't want to be that monster."'

His new movie, "Apocalypto," from The Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Pictures, opens Dec. 8. It is a Mayan-language epic filmed in Mexico chronicling the decline of the native civilization.

He's confident his past remarks will not hurt the movie at the box office.

"It's primarily entertainment," he says of his production. "An 18-year-old college guy, out with his buddies, he's going to get into the chase. The movie will stand on its own, regardless of any unfortunate experience I may have stumbled upon."

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That's for sure 8)

The two probally will be become friends or something that, they do kind of have alot in common.  ::)

Figures.

The two probally will be become friends or something that, they do kind of have alot in common.  ::)


Sounds brokeback to me.

How many does it take it take to register a klavern?
:P

Gibson claims he was drunk and is not an anti-Semite.  Richards claims he was agitated but he's not a racist.  Sounds like pathetic excuses to me. :P

Gibson claims he was drunk and is not an anti-Semite.  Richards claims he was agitated but he's not a racist.  Sounds like pathetic excuses to me. :P


I'm willing to cut these guys some slack.  I wonder how many of the people excoriating Gibson and Richards have NEVER told a Jewish (or insert ethinicity here___) joke in their lives?  Never locked their car doors or clutched their purse  when a couple of black kids were walking down the sidewalk?  NEVER used the N-word?  Never called polish people pollocks or italians dagos or so on?

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

I mean, holy crap.  It is not like Richards is out there lynching blacks or Gibson is throwing rocks through the windows of Jewish businesses.

They have apologized to those that they offended, that is good enuf for me.

I'm willing to cut these guys some slack.  I wonder how many of the people excoriating Gibson and Richards have NEVER told a Jewish (or insert ethinicity here___) joke in their lives?  Never locked their car doors or clutched their purse  when a couple of black kids were walking down the sidewalk?  NEVER used the N-word?  Never called polish people pollocks or italians dagos or so on?


I lock my car doors anyway.  I only clutch my purse with the rest of my tranny bling when I'm "Maxine" on the weekends!
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I lock my car doors anyway.  I only clutch my purse with the rest of my tranny bling when I'm "Maxine" on the weekends!
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No offense Max.  But I don't think you'd pass. ;D

Sounds brokeback to me.


;D

That could be Mel's next big film!  He even already has a co-star!  ;D

I saw this thread peeking out and thought it was woops talking about Debbie Gibson again :D


Gibson claims he was drunk and is not an anti-Semite.  Richards claims he was agitated but he's not a racist.  Sounds like pathetic excuses to me. :P


Mel Gibson is a drunk; Michael Richards is a dick ;D

I saw this thread peeking out and thought it was woops talking about Debbie Gibson again :D

Mel Gibson is a drunk; Michael Richards is a dick ;D


Why do you make it sound better????

Why do you make it sound better????


Mel Gibson has an excuse for being an idiot.  It's not a good excuse though

Mel Gibson has an excuse for being an idiot.  It's not a good excuse though


But I thought he always was an idiot.  It's not an excuse, it's a given. :P

The 50-year-old actor-director added: "They'll probably torture him for a while and then let him go. I like him."

So true.  ;D