Mel Gibson. It's the measure of a man?s charm when you can behave as badly as he has and still be quite so popular. On the one alleged hand you have alleged infidelity, alleged domestic abuse, alleged anti-semitism, alleged alcoholism, and the first mainstream S&M film to claim the moral high ground.
On the other hand you have Mad Max 2 and drunkenly calling a cop ?sugar tits?, which whilst being morally repugnant, was comedically pleasing.
Go on admit it. You?d like a call a policewoman ?sugar tits? wouldn't you? Consequences and a century of feminist progression be damned!
Anyway the reason we have an excuse to talk Gibson again is that he has landed a role in The Hangover 2. How do we know this?
Because Jodie Foster told us.
Well she told someone and then eventually we found out. So what can we learn from this? Firstly, that they're making a sequel to The Hangover, a film whose popularity bemused us since it was ?quite funny?, but everyone else seemed to think it was ?hilarious?.
Secondly, that Jodie Foster must also think calling someone ?sugar tits? is quite funny too, and she is an incredible woman on a lot of different levels.
According to Agent Starling, Gibson is ?the most loved man in the film business? which would seem a bit of a stretch even taking into consideration his gift for introducing inventive breast-related insults into the common lexicon.
Tom Hanks must be smarting a little, surely? What's a man got to do to achieve Gibson-like popularity? Perhaps he's actually been doing a Joaquin Phoenix-style art prank the whole time (albeit one that wasn?t a complete waste of time). He's certainly more convincing- he didn't just grow a beard and get fucked up.
He grew a beard, got fucked up and made a movie in Mayan for god?s sake.
Ronin says
I love mel Gibson and so does everyone I know apart from women, he getting old so hes allowed to go a bit nuts mad mel he he.