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...tongue, as does DIANE SAWYER. She got MEL GIBSON to admit, in his first interview since his anti-Semitic tirade in July, that the comments he claimed were "the stupid ramblings of a drunkard" may stem from resentment over the criticism he got for The Passion of the Christ. Also, although in a drunken rage, he managed to think clearly about Nick Nolte. Gibson told Sawyer he combed his hair so "one of those hideous mug shots" wouldn't be everywhere. "Vanity won out," he said...
...things he did not believe to be true and which he found “despicable.” There was already some evidence of Gibson’s anti-Semitism, from his equivocations about the Holocaust to his pornographically violent film, “The Passion of the Christ,” which depicts Jews as malignant, hook-nosed Christ-killers...
Indeed, a main popularizer of the word “alcoholism”—and the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous—Bill Wilson, believed that alcoholics should be healed by what he called the “Great Physician.” In effect, Jesus Christ...
...Oxbridge immigrant pastorate. This mission was perhaps best defined in Harvard’s 1646 “Rules and Precepts,” which held that “the maine [sic] end of [a student’s] life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life.” Even the school’s motto, “Veritas,” used to be “Veritas pro Christo et Ecclesia”—“Truth for Christ and Church...
Long before his run-in with the Malibu sheriff's department, Mel Gibson found himself in a very different kind of fix. Back in 2003, while filming The Passion of the Christ, the devout Catholic director couldn't find a real-life priest to his liking. The problem wasn't that he was shooting in an exotic location - they were at Rome's Cinecitta' movie studio, just down the road from the Vatican. But Gibson had a special requirement that was tough to satisfy even in the eternal city: he wanted his daily Mass celebrated in Latin...