Quote of the Day

"I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he was really drunk. I was with my friend, who's gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about 'oven dodgers,' but I didn't get it. I'd never heard that before. It was just this weird, weird moment. I was like, 'He's anti-Semitic and he's homophobic.' No one believed me!"

--Winona Ryder speaking about Mel Gibson in GQ Magazine. 

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"The Good News About Mel Gibson"

If you haven't read Frank Rich's column in today's New York Times, you should.  He takes us back to 2004, the year of The Passion of the Christ, the insanity over Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfuction, and the Bush/Rove engineered gay marriage panic. 

"The death throes of Mel Gibson’s career feel less like another Hollywood scandal than the last gasps of an American era."

Read it all here.

What Women Want...Mel Gibson!

From Slate comes this reminder that Mel Gibson starred in the ironically-named What Women Want. Here's the very NSFW recut trailer.