One of the more notable moments from last night’s Golden Globes was Jodie Foster’s semi-rambling, semi-inspirational, semi-coming-out speech after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Reactions to the seven-minute speech ran the gamut from tears to utter confusion, but you will be pleased to know that Foster’s acknowledgment of noted swell all-around guy Mel Gibson led Nashville star Hayden Panettiere to reach the following conclusion: It’s time to forgive him, because, like, being is celebrity is hard, you guys. Also, America.
Sayeth the cheerleader.
“I think forgiving is the best quality because America loves comebacks and they love flaws and for people to admit their mistakes and to grow from them,” Panettiere told Celebuzz while discussing Jodie Foster’s emotional Cecil B. DeMille speech. “We all do. They can be big, they can be small.”
On board so far. We are a nation that is very quick to judge and tear down, and we do love a comeback. Look at R. Kelly. That dude is a Grade-A creep, but he puts out a new record and a couple bonkers spoken-word music videos and suddenly we’re all “OMG ‘Ignition’ is my jam!”
But please, continue.
“The unfortunate thing about being in the public eye is you get much less breaks because everything is so magnified,” she added.
With you again there, kind of. We’ve all said something regrettable at least once in our lives. But none of us — probably — also starred in Lethal Weapon and Braveheart, so we only have to deal with the fallout among a smaller group of people, most of whom probably care about us and know our character and are therefore more likely to forgive us.
I’m sorry, I keep interrupting. You were saying.
“It’s not like we make any mistakes that other people don’t. It’s just that they’re so public and so explosive and so judgmental too to everything that somebodies [sic] created in their career. But I think forgiveness is one of the best qualities that America has.”
Okay, but here’s the thing. Mel Gibson said he hoped his wife got “raped by a pack of ni–ers,” and said that Jews were resonsible for all the wars in the world. Among other horrible things. Those aren’t explosive statements because he’s famous, they’re explosive because they’re loaded with C-4. Don’t believe me? Go to Starbucks and shout them for a while. If people want to forgive Mel Gibson — and some who know him have, probably for the same reasons you forgive your racist older relatives for things they’ve said — then fine. Go nuts. But you don’t have to do it just bec…
Wait a second. What the hell am I doing? Am I really seriously discussing something Hayden Paniettiere said to a gossip reporter after a boozy awards show? Jeeeeeeeeeesus Mighty.
Here Biggie’s video for “Sky’s the Limit.” I need a minute to re-evaluate some things.
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Responded Gibson, “Thanks, sugar tits.”
I haven’t forgiven her for seasons 2-4 of Heroes.
You speak truth, my robotic friend. But a little bit of blame should go to the writer’s strike too.
What’s to forgive? He’s an old racist bigot? You can’t really change him that much, just live with him. It’s not like he needs my forgiveness, he’s got plenty of success and money already. I’ll just continue to like his movies and dislike the person. Until he goes and hurts someone of course.
Mel’s the kind of guy you don’t turn your back on in a crowded bar. You’ll think he’s on your side but then he’ll toss around a phrase like “oven dodgers” and he instantly becomes a serious liability. I guess the question you need to ask yourself is “did Mel remember to bring his brass knuckles?” Then you need to ask yourself, “is that good or bad?”
and you wil trust the lying stealer girl who alledged that?? how can you beleive her when she said it right befgore her own movie opremiere desperatly seeking attention form media who didnt even noticed that she had made a movie until she insulted mel gibson and defamed him with far out alegations… about soemthing who had aledgedly ocured 20 years ealrier but that she had never mentioned before.. ehem.. at a party where she was most certainly drunk and full loaded á la coke, at a time when nobody wanted her invited at any party.. and when mel gibson was a super star i do not think she was invited at all so i beleive she said that as pay back to dotn have been ionvited and its so easy to piss on the face of people who are laying down hmm??
Mo Rocca @MoRocca
I feel that the Jodie Foster-Mel Gibson friendship sends a powerful message: People are complicated.
I’m one of those people that don’t really give much of a shit about a celebrity’s personal life. In the words of one Perry Cox:
“On Sunday nights, I like to throw on a dress, head out to the bars, and insist everyone calls me Mrs. Haberdasher.”
“Really?”
“No! But even if I did that would have absolutely nothing to do with me being a teacher. Stick with me here Barbie!”
And, to specifically reference Mel Gibson, I’ll use another TV quote to express myself:
“Say what you want about him, but the son-of-a-bitch knows story structure!”
Dude’s a fucking whack job, but goddamn if I don’t watch Braveheart every time it comes on. FREEDOMMMMMM!!!!!
*Runs into traffic in underwear, wildy waving a 2×4 above his head, before tripping into a ditch*
However, I argue that Mel Gibson is the Great Uniter. Why? Because of all people, he was the one to stand up for the lesbian.
You know what I gather from that? It’s that no matter what our opinions are, ridiculous, stupid, intelligent or otherwise, we can all get on board when it comes to women having sex with other women. Especially if they’re hot. Or used to be hot, in Jodie Foster’s case.
Holy hell, I would ravage her.
The thing is, he already had his second chance. Then all that insanity came out about his girlfriend. He never repented.
It’s too bad because (just like Tom Cruise) he’s a great actor. But he’s also crazy, racist, and violent towards women.
she droped all charges, because they were proven to be all faulse. didnt you get it? he was never charged for DV! he was charged for spaling her once on the face to make her stop form shaking a 2 months old prematgure baby.. if it had been you, the girl will have been jailed 10 years for producing faulse evidenxces and temperred recordings and fro endagering the life of a child.
she never made a civil law suite why? cause she wil have not only lose but end up in jail as her son, on top of the fake evidences, will have testified agaisnt her.
he said to the police that mel gibson had never hited his mother but tried to make her stop form shaking the baby. her son said that she leid and you still b eleive the lies form radar online. why?
I like Mel Gibson’s movies more than I dislike his racism. I can ignore racism, but Maverick cannot be ignored. Everytime it’s on TV I watch until the end. I’ve missed two funerals and a major surgery but everyone understood.
that little minx can have whatever inane opinions she wants
Hayden is a perfect example of a hot chick becoming unattractive the instant she opens her mouth.
If i stopped wanting to fuck every hot girl who was dumb their would be very few women i wanted to sleep with
I can’t tell if I REALLY REALLY want to know Hayden Panettiere biblically or not. I mean I want to have sex with her, but I don’t know if I’d commit some atrocities to do it.
Unlike her fellow fairy elf, Kristen Bell. I’d torture each and everyone of you to death in front of your families and mine if she’d let me get to 3rd base.
Two words: Fake tits. That’s all you really need.
I am not shedding any tears for Gibson, but I don’t hold the crazy shit somebody says when they are drunk or getting in a fight with a tramp against them. There are other celebrities that have done worse and still “rehabilitated” themselves.
Agreed. I never quite understood the extreme, universal hate that Mel Gibson got…at least in relation to the heat other celebrities got for their “indiscretions” anyway.
R. Kelly pissed on a girl and people are ok with him.
Chris Brown demolished a woman’s face and people actually defend him.
Roman Polanski had sex with children and we give him movie awards.
Mel Gibson said bad words while drunk? MOST EVIL MAN ALIVE.
Polanski drugged and raped a thirteen-year-old girl.
Been there.
you are right daisy. its fishy that the taboids hate him so much that they have to create fake stories to can hate him more and defame him totaly. they even interpretatign his free found form DV as a condemnation for DV! unreal. go on CNN, that DA prosecutor explained it clearly to journlaists after but most still wrote that mel gibson was codnemned for DV when in fact he was aquited., he was codnemnd for misdemanour battey, menaing a verbal fight and for giving her a slap to make her sotp from shaking the baby which in clear means that she had lied all along and that all her fake evidences had been rejected. i mena how coem no media put things together when her dentist told that he had lied and enver repaired her teeeth, and when her doc said she saw her the morning after the aledged DV, and she had no bruise and no missing teeth or broken veneer and didnt mentioned anything of the sort. she came to get a scan of the baby head.. after she had shaken the baby crazy the night before and she did so cause mel gibson had asked for it as he was worried for the child..
but it was allpresented up side down by the media who can congratulate themselves for having destgroyed a greate mans careeer fro no reaosn at all and for having let an extortionist paly it cool and seems innocent and escape 10 years of jail and deportation and beign forbiden to have anything to do with the child for child abuse..
It’s true. We should definitely give famous actors a pass when they say completely ridiculous and hateful things repeatedly. Getting paid shitloads to say words someone else wrote is super hard, guys.
we dotn give you or not give you a pass when you have a figth with an arse or with a russian goldiger trying to extort 25 milion dolalrs from you, do we?
so why do you come after mel gibson for that? there is a law that say its forbdien ot record priovate phone conversations. that law obviously dont count when a russian extgortionist goldiger with piano pretentuions, coems by and try to do a hold up in hollywood.
scuse me but she had already done that to timothy dalton that she also accused of DV in 1998, and again in 2008, at a time when she asked mel gibson that she had never met before, to help her with legal fees agaisnt dalton.. mel gibson beleived she had been a victim of DV in the hands of dalton and let her used his lawyers for free… in novemebr 2008, and dalton paid her under the table to avoid to fall form grace as we now know, wether you are innocent or not doesnt matter in hollywood if your rep is shot its shot and it glues..
in 2o011, oksana tried to reuse that to force mel gibsons family lawyer to leave form the law suite for child custody, by asserting that this same lawyer firm had helped her with a “similar case” back in nov 2008 agaisnt timothy dalton and had therefor in their possession legal documents that they could use agaisnt her..
got it?
how coem the media never investigated it nor reproted it properly?
the alone that did so were AF.
hej guerrero!
Mel Gibson NEVER said that he wished his goldiger to get rape by a pack of niger, he warned her to donrt wear so much ass-showing clothes cause she could risck to get raped by a packl of niger.. big difference.
He was warning her agaisnt getting rape, quiet the oposit of what you say.
And for the incompetent distionary non-owner and non-reader, nigger definition is someone who does low things and is a criminal. Not someone who is black.
A gang member is a nigger. Not to be confused with “negro”.
the commonly word used by black is neger, who is another word for negro.
Just to make things clear. So mel gibson is accused of racisme and sexism and ot wish for a woman to get raped bercause some stupid tabloids commentator arent able to read nor listen and are too leazy to do some research??
if you dont beleive me go listen to the tapes they are still on youtube.
btw those recordings wrre digital and made together with an audio engineer, staying at oksana’s home that night..
just that make it sound suspicious. when you add to it that the detgectives and investigators and sherifs and DA dismissed the recording as evidences because they were very obviously tampered with, you know that you cannot trust wahts on those tapes, specialy knowing that both oksana and her audio engeneer (on mel gibsons payroll to record that golddiger CD.(!)) had access to Mel Gibson’s Icon Production Studios, with all the audio recordings of Mel Gibson’s voice…
Guerrero you should stop to use radar online as source of info.. it doesnt sounds serious you know?
specialy knwoing that the guy at radar who made a contract with that extortionist form russia, did so from 2008, when he was still wroking as editor for the national enquier form which he was fired for going too far.. (the guy got skills..) before becoming redactor of radar online. And when knowing that they paid over a milion dolars for those digital tapes that they reworked in their own studios at radar online, as that same redactor of RO also own an add studio at beverly hill not far form radar online office in fact next door to it..
and also not to forget that oksana was at the studio of kosmokova Pravda, biggest propaganda studio ion the world, in moscow, in april 16 2010, 6 weeks before releasing those digital recordings.. I wil say that at that stage it had been in the hands of too many suspicious fake audio specialists to be grenuate.
audio ingener with free access to mel gibson’s own original recordings over a period of 30 years of movie making, the opwner of radar online and his private adds studio, the specialist at the studios of the pravda in russia, not to forget too the eyes of her lawyer and of gloria allred whom oksana contacted 2 days after she made the recording. She recorded mel gibson on the night of the 18 to 19 february 2010, and went with the tapes to see glorai alred on the 21 of february (!) if that wasnt planed and calculated what is?
So now that you are better informed, waht do you think of it all?
COTW!
So enlightening. I always thought nigger was an especially virulent racial slur with a long and detailed history, but thanks to CRANBERRY I have finally learned the truth.
Holy shit. I didn’t know Mel loved the internet so much.
It looks like Mel/Cranberry is getting manic again. I really don’t think Mel’s a bad guy. I do think he is bat-shit crazy though.