Mel Gibson's unholy Sunday

PAGE SIX - New York Post ^ | 3/06/03 | RICHARD JOHNSON with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON

[kattracks]

MEL Gibson is furious at the New York Times over a story that will depict him as a pope-hating, conspiracy-minded cultist.

Gibson went on Bill O'Reilly's show in January claiming reporter Christopher Noxon was doing a "hit piece" on him and "digging into [his] private life . . . getting into [his] banking affairs . . . harassing [his] family, including my 85-year-old father."

[CyberCowboy777]

....could revive the medieval charge that it was the Jews who killed Christ.

wow

the Times is lacking alot of history and Bible study!

[nickcarraway]

This guy sound like a real troublemaker. Page Six couldn't have thrown Sandy Kouffax into the mix here?

[Centurion2000]

bump

[america-rules]

"could revive the medieval charge that it was the Jews who killed Christ. "

No then who did it ?

What an idiot !

[nopardons]

It was the Daily Snooze ( News, for those who don't know about the NYC terminology ) that printed Sandy's name, NOT the Post. The Post's page six, was a " blind item ". Now, Sandy and by extention, you , are blaming page six.

[dasboot]

I heard Mel was also spewing that long-discredited theory about the attack on Pearl being the work of the Japanese.

Have I missed something in the record of Jesus' murder all these years? To whom devolves responsibility, according to 'modern' historians?

"...and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us (Jews), had condemed him to the cross,....."

Josephus

[Int]

Gary Giuffré [...] says in the story that the film "will graphically portray the intense suffering of Christ, perhaps as no film has done before."

Can a film really do this? I don't see the point of making a film pretending to be able to give off a realistic reflection of the Biblical story (even if everyone is speaking Aramaic!) It's not possible.

[Int]

I hate it when I forget to move my tag line

[dasboot]

Gibson himself acknowledged the apparent futility of portraying the murder as it really was; but felt his rendering would be a lot more honest than the sanitized versions that are celluloid currency.

As to why, Gibson seems to be spiritually compelled to produce the thing. Perhaps it is a devine mission; perhaps he's just pissed about the misinformation passed-off as 'history'. [ibid.]

I saw the interview Mel did with O'Reilly. Mel got really angry about Noxon's trespasses; but O'Reilly called him on his pique, and intimated that his was not a very Christian attitude. In a wonderful moment of introspection, Mel admitted the truth of that....without admitting it. O'Reilly snagged him good! He's human.

[nickcarraway]

Well, if you look at my post, I don't actually say Page Six said anything about Mr. Kouffax, I merely wonder why they didn't throw him into the mix.(In fairness to Mr. Kouffax the blind item was obviously pretty transparent)

[Judith Anne]

Getting angry is a normal human emotion, and neither Christian nor unChristian, in my view. It is what we do about our anger that reveals whether we are Christian or not.

[dasboot]

You are absolutely correct, wise one.

Gibson was angry; and , as a result of his anger, he obliquely threatened Noxon with retaliation...sort of a "he don't know who he's messin' with; he better watch it" sort of statement.

That's when O'Reilly snagged him. Mel was goin' down a bad road.

Hope that clarifies things.

[Int]

Interesting. I guess he is an actor after all. But sorry, Mel, I'm still not going to see it.

[nopardons]

Page Six has apologized, to Mr. Koufax. They're done with it and if you are a daily reader of this page, as I am, then you should know, full well, that they don't repeat themsleves nor carry things from day to day to day without some new news tidbit. :-)

[thegreatbeast]

This is all crapola. I like Mel Gibson. And I would like to see the Church return to the solemnity and formalism of the old Latin Mass. A lot of Catholics would.

[Judith Anne]

Thanks. Wish I'd seen the interview...*sigh* ;-D

[Judith Anne]

Yes.

[rmlew]

The Romans, Hellenisitic colonizers, their puppet Nabataian "king", and their hand-picked collaborationist Sanhedrin killed dozens of purported Messiahs and rebel leaders. That is a fact.

[dasboot]

Are you saying that the crowd calling for the release of the thief was Greek, Italian, and Gaul?