Poor Mel
Ha'aretz covers a WSJ report that ABC has pulled a miniseries Mel Gibson was "working on":
The incident has raised questions about the future of projects Gibson and his Icon Productions company are working on, like the ABC television miniseries based on a memoir about a Dutch Jew during World War II, the newspaper said.An ABC representative told the paper, without elaborating, it has been two years and the network still has not seen a script, so the project is being pulled.
Is this part of the penance that the Hollywood Reporter talks about?
There will be the obligatory People magazine cover piece ("I'm Sorry!"), the equally obligatory Diane Sawyer forgiveness-begging interview ("I'm just another recovering alcoholic..."), possibly even a face-to-face primetime browbeat from America's favorite cloying finger-wagger, Dr. Phil McGraw ("What in living hell were you thinking, Mel Gibson?"). The Mea Culpa Express will soon be chugging down the tracks through your very neighborhood!
What a penance! Cancelling a show you hadn't yet figured out how to twist into denouncing the evil Jews!
