Mel Gibson''s new gal!

[whitby_2773]

sorry - just to clarify - he produced the highest grossing film for the YEAR -not of all time - in 2005.

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Date: 5/2/2009 12:35:55 PM
Author: whitby_2773


i totally agree with you all in that i think his wife has had a lot to bear for many years. he''s battled alcoholism for decades, and any wife who has had to live with that deserves a medal in my book. but just to clarify a few things...

his father denied the holocaust - not mel. mel and his wife have been separated for 3 YEARS - not one week. he probably only decided to file divorce proceedings when he also decided he wanted to move on, relationally. he is 53 years old - and this new woman is 38 - not a spring chicken, and only young enough to be his daughter if he was getting pretty frisky pretty young! (there were 12 years between my parents, so, frankly, 15 doesnt seem too outrageous to me they''re not children, either of them.) and i think it''s a stretch VRBeauty to call him a marginal celebrity! he was voted Hollywood''s most powerful man on more than one occasion, he owns 2 movie studios and one recording studio, produced hollywood''s highest grossing film only a couple of years ago and he''s still generally considered to be able to headline a movie.

does this make him a good guy? hardly. i think he''s anti-semitic and an alcoholic - an ugly combination. he also strikes me as being incredibly arrogant. but i think it''s always good to be careful with rhetoric - just in the interests of accuracy. and he definitely isnt the only alcoholic, arrogant racist in this country, that''s for sure! the best path forward, if you dont like him - and i dont - is just to avoid his movies. which is exactly what i do. frankly, i think he''s the new tom cruise when it comes to anti-popularity - and the only way to hurt either of them and to send a message of disapproval is in their hip pocket.

(just for reference, his brother (the one that does the voiceovers) is married to the sister of a friend of mine, so i''ve always paid a tiny bit more attention to the things pertaining to him)

Whitby, I always love your balanced and factual posts! (I don''t care for Mel, either, but I do like accuracy!). Alcholism is a devastating condition, that is for sure.

 

[AGBF]

Date: 4/30/2009 1:12:45 PM
Author: AGBF

I just happened to notice this title. I found it interesting, when I read about her, that she has a son with Timothy Dalton who is now, apparently, 66.

The news is that Mel Gibson and his new partner are having a baby together. The child will be a half-brother or sister to her son with Timothy Dalton. I know that Timothy Dalton spent many years with Vanessa Redgrave, but I do not think that they had chidren together. Besides her two daughters with Tony Richardson (one being the recently deceased actress Natasha Richardson) Miss Redgrave had a son with Franco Nero. Nonetheless, the world seems very small.

AGBF

 

[Richard Sherwood]

Gee, I always liked the guy, and considered him an excellent actor.

Braveheart still stops me in my tracks.

For that matter, from Road Warrior through Signs, I have a hard time remembering a bad movie he did.

Then again, I like Tom Cruise as well. Valkerie was excellent.

I guess I''m just old and out of touch.

 

[AGBF]

Date: 5/29/2009 12:02:13 AM
Author: Richard Sherwood

Gee, I always liked the guy

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Then again, I like Tom Cruise as well.

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I guess I''m just old and out of touch.

No, Richard, you aren''t old or out of touch! You are just a rotten judge of character!

Hugs,
Deb

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Happened to catch his interview on Jay Leno the other night. Mel joked that he would be referred to as the "OcoDad" since he and his new partner is expecting a child. Jay asked how old his partner was--and he disclosed "close to 40". He does look his age--not all smoothed/immovable faced like many other Hollywood men of his "era".

cheers--Sharon

 

[tlh]

yeah, I had heard that she was preggers. Interesting... may be why he chose to start taking her in public when he did... make the pregnancy that much less of a scandal.

 

[Richard Sherwood]

Date: 5/29/2009 9:16:34 AM
Author: AGBF

Date: 5/29/2009 12:02:13 AM
Author: Richard Sherwood

Gee, I always liked the guy

...

Then again, I like Tom Cruise as well.

...

I guess I''m just old and out of touch.

No, Richard, you aren''t old or out of touch! You are just a rotten judge of character!

Hugs,
Deb

Thanks for clarifying that for me Deb. I feel much better now.