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WME Dumps Mel Gibson As Agency Client Because "He Used The N-Word"
Deadline Hollywood ^ | July 9, 2010 | Nikki Finke

Posted on 07/09/2010 5:37:19 PM PDT by NohSpinZone

And last Friday, WME board member Ari Emanuel "woke up at 3 AM and emailed his partner Patrick Whitesell that 'we can't represent a guy who said the N-word'." So the agency dumped Mel Gibson on July 2nd, and the next day, on July 3rd, his agent Limato died.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: curse; melgibson; nword; sugartits; williammorris
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This from an agency who proudly promotes Ice Cube among other rappers. Ice Cube was with NWA, if you'll recall, and the N did not stand for Nice Guys.

I'm not excusing Mel's behavior. But spare me the moral outrage WME, you filthy whores.

1 posted on 07/09/2010 5:37:20 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone

What about the racial slurs the New Black Panthers were publicly yelling at whites, racial attacks this Administration is supporting?


2 posted on 07/09/2010 5:40:03 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: NohSpinZone

As a Jew, I had to laugh when I read this. His anti-semetic rant didn’t throw them over the edge. His purported spousal abuse didn’t do it...what gets these Hollywood liberal Jews all hot and crazy??? THE N WORD. The word that’s used in almost all the popular movies and rap these days. I have to pray for Hollywood Jews..they know not what they do.


3 posted on 07/09/2010 5:43:11 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: NohSpinZone

Ari is also Rahm’s brother. Tell you a lot about the type of family.


4 posted on 07/09/2010 5:43:29 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (November, here we come!)
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To: Kenny
You're right. I guess it's OK for some people to use that word but not others. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

-- Orwell.

5 posted on 07/09/2010 5:43:53 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone

Uttering a racial slur: damned in the currrent sick, racist culture of ONE WAY political correctness as the unspeakably worst thing ever.

Openly advocating the murder of white infants: tacitly supported by an American Presidential Administration.

Ratcheting closer to American Civil War II.....


6 posted on 07/09/2010 5:43:54 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: NohSpinZone
The question since this latest scandal is whether Gibson's Hollywood career will be affected. Now those questions will multiply tenfold because WME has dropped him. Still, Gibson, the director of the worldwide biggest independent film ever The Passion Of The Christ, has a very active motion picture career at present. He stars in a movie called The Beaver directed by Jodie Foster which is supposed by distributed by Summit Entertainment. And he's filming a movie he wrote and stars in titled, How I Spent My Summer Vacation, about a career criminal brutally imprisoned in Mexico and the 9-year-old boy who helps keep him alive. Gibson also has been talking about directing a Viking epic project as well as reteaming with Lethal Weapon scribe Shane Black in Cold Warrior. And, of course, Gibson also is a movie mogul as the co-owner of Icon Productions.

Incredibly enough, Mel still has an active career going.

7 posted on 07/09/2010 5:44:08 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: NohSpinZone

Mel was cursing out his manipulative “girlfriend” who seduced him and ruined his family. Now she is planning to ruin his life with this tape.

Both need our prayers.


8 posted on 07/09/2010 5:45:19 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: NohSpinZone

hehehehehehehehe! If WME start dumping people because of words uttered in private conversations, they will have no clients. That is if they plan to be consistent. What hypocrits!


9 posted on 07/09/2010 5:45:45 PM PDT by apocalypto
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To: NohSpinZone
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Love the quote!

10 posted on 07/09/2010 5:45:55 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: ABQHispConservative

I did not know that! That tells me all I ever need to know about Ari...


11 posted on 07/09/2010 5:46:46 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone

The speech and thought police need get a new life, or dry up and blow away.

The blacks get to use every racist word in the book for themselves and us whites, but Oo, let a white use the “N” word and we might as well be stoned to death.
We can not even use “negro” anymore. We have to call them “African American”, a term that I will never use.


12 posted on 07/09/2010 5:48:38 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: Hildy

Actually, when THE PASSION came out, they did not know what to do with themselves about Mel’s politics/religion becuz there was a particularly revealing article about Mel’s father’s antiSemitism that had everyone in Hollywood seething. Hollywood at large really hated it that the film made so much money; it seemed like an anti Semitic screed. All told, Mel did pick a strangely metaphysical Catholic screenwriter for THE PASSION, he had done a similarly creepy job on a John Huston’s WISE BLOOD.


13 posted on 07/09/2010 5:49:51 PM PDT by TwoLegsGood ("...my sin is ever before me" - King David)
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To: NohSpinZone

If he REALLY wanted to insult someone he should have called them “Hollywood WME types”...


15 posted on 07/09/2010 5:53:34 PM PDT by jessduntno (A-Stan: "illiterate peasants in caves, ruled by "warlords" ... not a target for "nation building.")
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If all our conversations that we thought were private were all made public, I think we’d all be screwed.


16 posted on 07/09/2010 5:53:54 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Hildy

Amen!


17 posted on 07/09/2010 5:54:25 PM PDT by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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To: NohSpinZone
I'm not excusing Mel's behavior. But spare me the moral outrage WME, you filthy whores.

Very true. Nonetheless, it's been difficult to stick up for Mel these last couple of years. He seems to have really gone off the deep end. It's a shame. I rented Edge of Darkness from a redbox the other night and it was just an outstanding film! One of Gibson's best performances! It was great to see him in front of the camera again and in top form.

Unfortunately, Mel's personal life has overshadowed the fact that he's still a first-rate talent who has made and continues to make some incredible films. I believe this is going to hurt him in the box office, causing excellent movies like this one to disappear under the shadow of his increasingly erratic behavior.

18 posted on 07/09/2010 5:56:18 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: NohSpinZone
Mel has the original excuse ~ he's bipolar.

His problem is that he's been avoiding medical care for years and sticking to the tried and true self-medication of strong drink!

No sane person holds anyone who's bipolar accountable for cussing ~

(/s)

19 posted on 07/09/2010 5:56:39 PM PDT by muawiyah
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I do not care anymore, bring the N word back and what the hell is that anyway???


20 posted on 07/09/2010 5:56:47 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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