[Apologetics] Stories of oddball Gibson were around before his arrest

[Art Kelly]

Sept. 8, 2006, 2:20PM
Stories of oddball Gibson were around before his
arrest

New York Times News Service 

The Myth of Crazy Mel began seeping out of Hollywood
long before he was arrested for drunken driving on
July 28 and burst out with the ugly, anti-Semitic
comments that have put him in extreme damage-control
mode. A 2004 episode of South Park about The Passion
of the Christ depicts him as a looney-tunes guy
bouncing off the walls in his underwear and whooping.
Mel Gibson is "crazy, dude," one South Park kid tells
another. "Mel's crazy, but I like him," a
name-dropping billionaire says in Bruce Wagner's
latest Hollywood novel, Memorial (released this month
but written pre-meltdown).

And Gibson's new film, Apocalypto, was already one of
the most-talked-about of the season, largely because
of the Crazy Mel factor. Even for him, the oddball
quotient is high. An action movie set in the dying
days of the Maya civilization, the 15th century,
Apocalypto was made in the Yucatec dialect without a
single recognizable actor, and shot in the jungles of
Mexico, where heavy rains slowed production and
postponed its planned release from this summer. Photos
from the set showed that Gibson had grown a full beard
and let its central white streak grow longer than the
rest, as if defiantly choosing to look like an aging
eccentric.

The complete article is at
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/entertainment/4172932.html



                           
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