Mel Gibson Officially Unglued, Possibly Ruined in Epic New Hate Tape
If Mel Gibson's first audiotaped rant to emerge from the bowels of tabloid-breakup hell was not toxic enough for you, have a listen to the eight-minute dance remix that debuted today. Ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva surreptitiously recorded the actor-producer-director in a meltdown to end all meltdowns -- which honestly, for much of the tape, sounds like just what you'd expect from a guy who acknowledges having "left my wife because we have no spiritual common ground," and then shacked up with the kind of person who would leak a tape of him going nuts after things went poorly between them. Anyone would be pissed! And then comes the final minute, and this kind of changes everything.
Listen, I think I'm going to get to this in more depth later, but couples fight, OK? "You make me wanna smoke!" is exactly the kind of absurd emotional outburst an exasperated ex-smoker would have toward an exasperating ex-lover. Like, who wants to quit them both? I don't care about that and probably half of the other crap here, mostly because neither of these first two tapes have any background or context for the terms that seemingly necessitated them. Just because Gibson -- panting like an animal and screaming in a blurt here ("What? What?") and a salty, vaguely unintelligible blast there -- accuses Grigorieva of being on his "gravy train" and hitting the road as soon as his acting career hit a rough patch, I can't really judge. It's Hollywood! These people are responsible for arguably the worst vanity-project music video of the last decade! We'll never really know the pathologies at work here.
Except for the last 1:20 or so of the tape, when it just gets horrible. The schmucks at Radar won't allow embedding, and probably for the better; once you start getting into threats to "bury you in the rose garden" or Gibson indirectly admitting to punching Grigorieva because she "f*cking deserved it," I mean... Nobody wins here, folks. This is like eight minutes of sucking on a battery. More later, I presume, I fear...
· EXCLUSIVE NEW AUDIO: Mel Gibson Admits Hitting Oksana, Threatens To Kill Her [Radar Online]
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A sad Greek tragedy.
The guy is one of the most beloved movie stars of the last generation. And one of the most religious. So he makes a Jesus movie. It becomes a phenomenon. He takes hits from many Jewish groups because the story is the root of much antisemitism. He gets arrested. Makes drunken jokes to the cop in reference to the Jewish displeasure -- which probably sounded self-deprecating in his head but came off as bigoted to everyone else. It becomes a career shaking scandal. This incites a midlife crisis. He begins an affair with a vapid hottie --- thereby violating his beloved religion. A new baby. A divorce. His last films as director and actor under-perform. And he's all alone now... the Charles Foster Kane of Hollywood.
And then comes the coup de grace... an audio tape that exposes his ruined psychology... made by his own Susan Alexander.
But instead of whispering "Rosebud" on his deathbed, he'll be whispering "rose garden."
"White" rose garden...
"You should just f**king SMILE and BLOW ME because I DESERVE IT!!!!"
From a good, virtuous king he fell and became wicked and evil. He was swayed by his wretched ego. Oh, and maybe cocaine...
Gibson was one of the most likeable stars in film for 20 years, prior to his comments following his arrest. That makes me wonder how many other prize asshole actors the Hollywood bullshit machine, excuse me, PR industry, has succeeded in protecting over the years. What will we find out next? Does Depp kick puppies, maybe DiCaprio bites the heads off of kittens, Crowe throws phones at clerks?
Man, he said some crazy stuff but I kinda feel bad for him too. He should've gone to http://www.ihateitwhen.com and got it all off his chest before he blew up like this..lol
He does not want to go to the jacuzzi.
F**K THE JACUZZI!!! THE JACUZZI (pant, pant) DOESN'T DESERVE TO SMELL MY (pant, pant) SH*T!!!
snicker.
I'm thinking Mel wishes this chick was one of the deported Russian spies right about now.
I guess the last thing he needs now is a movie about him shoving his hand up a beaver.
The point about the lack of our knowing the context of Mad Mel and Gold-digger's conversations in the previously leaked tapes is spot on and something that writers on many blogs don't seem to be factoring in (too busy enjoying their rightous indignation at Mel's lack of racial sensitivity).
Obviously can't really defend or excuse Gibson (at least not without some context), but if Grigorieva comes out with a book in 2 months and starts doing the talk show circuit... ugh, nobody wins. Except YouTube commenters, who no doubt are taking copious notes.
Ha, ha...it's funny 'cause you implied YouTube commenters can write.
Here's one context: even if she's a wretched horrible person who has caused him wretched horrible grief, abused his trust, caused him to lose his mind, how's about he not talk to her at all? How about if he has to talk to her to arrange child drop-off and pick-up or whatever, and she starts in about whatever makes him blow his top, he hang the hell up? He already doesn't trust her. So disengage! Preferably before you get to the death threat stage.
In no way am I defending her, but this guy dug his own hole here. Yup, couples fight and say awful things and don't assume it's going to be public. Maybe they should start, especially if they are super-rich, super-famous, in a hateful custody battle, and have already stacked a few doughnuts at the court-ordered (and clearly ineffective) anger-management seminars. The context may not be that "she's a saint and he's crazy" (or the reverse of that), but it surely is that "she can work a tape recorder and he's an raging idiot."
"So he makes a Jesus movie. It becomes a phenomenon. He takes hits from many Jewish groups because the story is the root of much anti-semitism."
So let's see if we got this right. He makes a movie that everyone knows IS THE STORY of who it was who caused Jesus Christ to be crucified - and why they wanted it to happen - and you talk of "anti-semitism"?!
No, this was anti-Christianity at work. That's why Jesus was crucified.
The story is THE TRUTH.
And the chips have to fall where they may.
Go Mel, have fun with it...
To cultural sensitivity training with you!
Why is that group of billionaires who own America still attacking Mel Gibson? After all, he removed Matthew 27:25 from his movie.
The Jews invented cocaine? Who knew?
(pant! pant!)
I'll huff and I'll puff and you'll blow me first.
AM, For The Win!!!!
The context may not be that "she's a saint and he's crazy" (or the reverse of that), but it surely is that "she can work a tape recorder and he's an raging idiot."
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AWESOME.
Yeah, agreed. Awesome!
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