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...original film of Mel Brooks' The Producers, Zero Mostel advises a blithering Gene Wilder, who has just unintentionally observed Mostel's character trying to seduce an elderly woman: "You mean 'oops,' don't you? Just say 'oops' and get out!" Yet sometimes even "oops" is not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Oops Isn't Enough | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...Australians are on the whole an easygoing bunch. We like our meat grilled, our beer cold, and our surf big, just like Americans do. But you've seen us when we're grumpy right? Russell Crowe and the phone? Mel Gibson and the DUI? Rupert Murdoch and the left? Eric Bana and that big stomping thing he did in The Hulk? Trust me, you won't like us when we're angry. A little advice: Let the Vegemite stay. We promise not to share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vegemite Mess | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

Alcohol loosens the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 23, 2006 | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...July, actor-director Mel Gibson was pulled over for drunk driving, but really shot himself in the foot when he decided to launch into a frothing anti-Semitic tirade. A dubiously contrite Gibson later explained that, in a state of drunken fury, he had 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...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Alcoholics Accountable | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...There is no clear indication exactly how loose an indult would be, and whether some approval would still be required for individual priests to perform the Latin rite. So far, the Lefebvre group has not commented on the latest news. Nor has Mel Gibson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Latin Mass | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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