After Mel Gibson allegedly let loose an anti-Semitic rant while he was being arrested for DUI last week, many were speculating to what degree the tirade was going to hurt the Oscar-winning director's career. Well, the first piece of evidence may be in: ABC has decided to drop the Holocaust-themed miniseries it was developing with Gibson's production company.When pressed by the Wall Street Journal for a reason why they decided to end the project, which was based on the diaries of a Jewish woman from the Netherlands who was sheltered from the Nazis by her non-Jewish boyfriend, a network rep told the paper that they're dumping the project because they haven't yet received a script after two years of development. But the timing is interesting, isn't it?
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8-01-2006 @ 9:50AM
Gavin said...
Wasn't he working on that with Louis Farrakhan?
I kid, I kid....
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8-06-2006 @ 8:54PM
Sunny Wallace said...
Like Levick says ... that's Hollywood.
"But he has more at stake than that."
Richard Levick's Take
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8-06-2006 @ 8:57PM
Sunny Wallace said...
Like Richard Levick says...that's Hollywood.
"But he has more at stake than that.
http://www.levick.com/resources/topics/articles/braveheartLostsoul.php
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