Here comes Mel
Next Thursday and Friday morning (10.12 and 10.13) Mel Gibson will grovel before Diane Sawyer on ABC's Good Morning, America about his anti-Semitic blurtings when he was arrested for that DUI last summer. The idea, of course, is to pave the way for Apocalypto (Touchstone, 12.8) by at least starting to try and mitigate some of the disdain that the Hollywood community feels for him.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 8, 2006 at 1:06 AM
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jeffmcm
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When you say 'last Summer' you mean 71 days ago, right? About two months? If you're going to nitpick Turan for his language, you need to be more exacting yourself.
Posted by jeffmcm
at October 8, 2006 3:08 AM
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D.Z.
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Oh, and ABC is owned by Disney, which also is distributing Apocalypto. Don't you just love "synergy"?
Posted by D.Z.
at October 8, 2006 3:30 AM
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jeffreywells
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Wells to Jeffmcm: It's the fall now -- mid October, jacket and sweaters, Halloween masks in drug stores. Gibson got pulled over in Malibu last summer...you know, the previous season, whether it was 71 or 81 or 69 days ago or whatever.
Posted by jeffreywells
at October 8, 2006 8:14 AM
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jeffmcm
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You mean 'this summer'. Last summer was Summer 2005.
Posted by jeffmcm
at October 8, 2006 1:27 PM
comment #5
Joe Leydon
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Well, Jeff, if we're going to get picky: Don't you really mean to say "exact" (as in "precise" or "accurate") rather than "exacting" (as in "demanding" or "tough")?
Posted by Joe Leydon
at October 8, 2006 1:44 PM
comment #6
Pinko Punko
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jeffmcm-
not everyone adheres to that idiom. "Last summer" could equally mean the last summer, or summer, last year. Don't be such a cobag. You need to go to troll school. Although so do I. I just fed you.
Posted by Pinko Punko
at October 8, 2006 2:45 PM
comment #7
Joe Leydon
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And who could forget: "I Know What You Did Last Summer"
Posted by Joe Leydon
at October 8, 2006 3:49 PM
comment #8
Nate West
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Diane Sawyer is such a safe choice. It's pathetic. Gibson needs to face a Jew and take his lumps.
Posted by Nate West
at October 8, 2006 4:46 PM
comment #9
Jennifer
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Jeff,
You know that Mr. Gibson is going to grovel, and you have done a survey of everyone in Hollywood to know there is universal disdan of him, have you?
To Nate West-Which Jew did you have in mind that Mel should do his interview with? Larry King perhaps? Yes, Larry would give him a good raking over. Yes, now Mel needs to check with you Nate before he makes his decisions!
Posted by Jennifer
at October 8, 2006 10:51 PM