The Mel Gibson news of late has put a fire under my butt to get this site up to its true purpose, letting victims of gossip air their side of the story in an effort to live relatively normal lives.
But first some house cleaning business since I've been away... Almost all of my previous chapters have been archived offline in preparation for them being published in the format of a book. (if you'd like to be updated about the book's progress and when you can get it, click the email me) under my new pic!
Yes, I've grown a lot since my battle with the paparazzi that ruin us began, this sketch - even in its crude form represents me scowling at someone taking my pic at an event sometime last year, I've cut my hair since but the look says it all.
Now onto Mel...
This is an excerpt from today's wrap
From his debut with 1979’s “Mad Max,” Mel GIbson has made a career
out of playing slightly psychotic characters. In fact, the underlying
hint of danger he brought to a diverse range of roles from Martin Riggs
to William Wallace is what made him such a compelling actor.
Audiences flocked to Mel’s movies knowing full well that at any
moment the jovial jokester would vanish, replaced by a violent and
vengeful man. True, it was usually prompted by good cause -- the death
of a wife, the slaughter of a family, and always lots and lots of
torture (see South Park’s “The Passion of the Jew” for a sly takedown
of that strange fixation).
I've cut the excerpt here intentionally because it goes onto to make halfhearted fun at Mel's expense. What I'd like to focus on here is how they detail his great performances that we all love no matter what you think of him.
The fact of the matter is as an actor, it is extremely difficult to lose the personality you've been paid so handsomely to create for a role. It's like the indy Paul Giamatti film COLD SOULS, where souls can be removed and put in cold storage -- and you can use someone else's for awhile but each time you do the soul leaves remnants in your body.
I am by no means condoning brutality toward women what I am saying is that we all have issues and no one knows the true story here of what went on in that relationship except the two involved. As humans we are devastated at the loss of a relationship and the passion that comes through in that time is private.
I know for a fact Mel is a good guy, I've been a witness to his generosity when other celebrities have been under public scrutiny that was none of the public's business.
The saving grace here is the fact that Hollywood does forgive. Trust that Mel and those that love him will help him get through this difficult period so that he can once again get back to entertaining us professionally. And more importantly providing for his family. Because at the end of the day it doesn't matter what you think of Mel or even his respectable body of work, what matters is that his children should never have to find one of these scandal sheets about their father.
UPDATE - in yesterdays AP report of Mel's custody hearing it specifically states that the 'tapes' could be altered and that Mel's wife (and mother of the rest of his children) of 28 years has made a sworn statement that he in NO WAY verbally, physically or otherwise was EVER abusive to him. Remember, this is America and we are all innocent until proven guilty... yet another reason why I support Mel... get a life peeps.
