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...Gibson has already begun to atone publicly for the anti-Semitic tirade he unleashed while being arrested last week on a drunk-driving charge in Malibu, Calif. "I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said," the Passion of the Christ director said in a statement, adding that he would like to meet with Jewish leaders to "discern the appropriate path for healing...
Long before Mel Gibson was pulled over by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in Malibu for drunk driving, the entertainment news website TMZ.com - whose name is an acronym for the "thirty-mile zone" around Hollywood - had shown a knack for giving the world an unblinking, and often unflattering, view of celebrity shenanigans. "We report things as soon as we learn them and can confirm them," the website's general manager, Alan Citron, says. "I think that and the unvarnished nature of our coverage, which isn't the standard red-carpet grip-and-grin, has made us stand...
...with its well-sourced and carefully documented account of Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade and belligerent behavior during his DUI arrest on Pacific Coast Highway last week, upstart TMZ became legit. "It was definitely a watershed event," says Citron, a former Los Angeles Times entertainment industry reporter and editor who has also done stints as an executive with TicketmasterOnline, USA Network Interactive and Movielink. "That story gave us credibility because we were first and we were accurate. It introduced us, in a way that was positive, to people who hadn't heard of us." Even the publicists whose clients...
...first learned of the DUI arrest when one of Levin's sources phoned him on midday Friday. When he subsequently heard that the episode didn't occur without incident, as the Sheriff's office had asserted, Levin obtained from his sources accounts of Gibson's actions and comments, as well as the complete report the arresting officer, deputy James Mee, filed that quoted Gibson's statements about Jews. Thus, a scoop was born...
Celebrity DUIs are as common on one stretch of Malibu, Calif., highway as blonds in convertibles. But when L.A. sheriffs arrested MEL GIBSON for driving at nearly twice the legal speed--with a blood-alcohol level of .12% (.08% is the state limit)--the A-lister with an image as a sober traditionalist Catholic seemed to be reverting to his Mad Max days. Gibson was released on $5,000 bail and later issued an apology, both for the driving infraction and for what he called his "belligerent" behavior: "I acted like a person completely out of control when...