Poll Shows That People Still Love Them Some Mel Gibson

by Jon Bershad | 5:14 pm, August 31st, 2010

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Well, I guess the residual Lethal Weapon love is stronger than anyone would guess. Perhaps more surprising than the news that Mel Gibson is a bit of a crazy person is the news that most Americans really don’t care. Despite numerous tapes featuring F-words, C-words, N-words, and a couple Q-words, a poll by CBS and Vanity Fair has shown that the scandal will have no effect on whether or not 76% of Americans will see future Mel Gibson movies.

This is good news for Jodie Foster, who directed Gibson’s next film, the dark comedy The Beaver. Ironically, in that film, Gibson plays a crazy person. However, we can only assume that Gibson’s character is the more movie-friendly “quirkily endearing” type of crazy and not the “threaten to burn a house down when you don’t receive oral sex” type of crazy. And still, as Vanity Fair points out, the pollsters only asked people if the scandal would affect their choice. If that choice was already set on skipping Gibson’s films, well, then… At the very least, we’ll have to wait till The Beaver’s release to see if these poll numbers correspond to box office numbers.

In totally unrelated news, Takers, the movie starring Chris Brown of the singing and beating-Rihanna’s-face-into-a-bloody-mess fame was number one at the box office this past weekend.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

This is Hollywood. This kinda crap happens all of the time, and how soon we forget about it. There were tapes of Alec Baldwin essentially calling his own daughter a fat bitch and he landed a roll on an unfunny NBC show soon after. (Admittedly, it ain’t his fault the show’s not funny.)

Mel Gibson makes good movies. He’ll bounce back from this faster than you can say “liberal media”.
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Jodie Foster directed The Beaver? (insert obvious and juvenile joke)
Ahmed

Vanity Fair should give Mel the same treatment they hand out to the Palin family. He is proven trash (more times than he cares to remember I am sure) I will avoid his movies, like he should avoid alcohol ;-+