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The most discussed moment that Mike Fleming heard at the Golden Globes after-parties was the biting intro which host Ricky Gervais gave Mel Gibson, who presented Best Director. After sipping what appeared to be a glass of beer (isn’t that an on-air taboo?), Gervais said, “I like a drink as much as the next man…unless the next man is Mel Gibson.” While the bit seemed to surprise Gibson, I’m told the actor knew ahead of time what was coming. (Like last year’s staged cheek-to-cheek encounter between Eminem and Bruno at the MTV Movie Awards…) Insiders said Gervais got Gibson’s phone number and let him know what was coming, at least in loose terms. I’m told Gibson, a notorious prankster on his own film sets, got a laugh out of the Gervais joke and agreed to play along.
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Forget that – scripted and staged. The real izzy is the interchange this morning between Sam Rubin and Mel Gibson. Sam brought up the issues that kept Gibson from returning to the screen for the last few years. Gibson leaned forward and said ‘why, do you have a dog in this fight?’ – meaning, he knew that Rubin was a Jew. Sam was non-plussed and didn’t lose it.
Rubin is a pro.
Gibson is a tool.
Cry me a river and build a bridge over you weakling. Wah Wah…who wouldn’t know Rubin was Jewish. You are not the only people in the world. You have many, many more problems than Gibson. You cry and cry and cry. People get tired they don’t say much because they don’t want to get wet from your pitiful self-worshipping tears. Actually, izzy, Rubin does have a dog in the fight…a crying little poodle.
Well I guess anti-Semites like Stephen can go back into hibernation until Mel decides to start drinking again.
I think this pretty much sums up Gibson and his odious little views.
http://www.slate.com/id/2146880/
Christopher Hitchens:
“I was just in the middle of writing a long and tedious essay, about how to tell a real anti-Semite from a person who too-loudly rejects the charge of anti-Semitism, when a near-perfect real-life example came to hand. That bad actor and worse director Mel Gibson, pulled over for the alleged offense of speeding and the further alleged offense of speeding under the influence, decided that he needed to demand of the arresting officer whether he was or was not Jewish and that he furthermore needed to impart the information that all the world’s wars are begun by those of Semitic extraction.
Call me thin-skinned if you must, but I think that this qualifies. I also think that the difference between the blood-alcohol levels—and indeed the speed limits—that occasioned the booking are insufficient to explain the expletives (as Gibson has since claimed in a typically self-pitying and verbose statement put out by his publicist). One does not abruptly decide, between the first and second vodka, or the ticks of the indicator of velocity, that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are valid after all.”
The ability to laugh at one’s failures is a likable trait. The ability to laugh at other people’s failures is just fun.
Hey, I guess Ricky forgot to call Paul McCartney ahead of time.
Sir Paul certainly wasn’t laughing…
Either way it was funny … Eminem and Bruno was not
Let’s face it, Bruno was not only the worst movie of the year but seriously harms the cause of cinema as storytelling. Same plot as Borat. Also doesn’t do much for the cause of gay marriage in this country, does it?
Good for you Mel.
No surprise here.
The joke may have been pre-planned but I saw a clip of Mel on KTLA with Sam Ruben this morning and he did not appear amused by the topic. In fact, he got confrontational saying to Sam “You got a dog in this fight?” Not the best reaction in my opinion.
Concerned Onlooker
Fair enough, it was still funny.
Can someone please explain why “you got a dog in this fight?” is somehow offensive? I don’t doubt that it is, I just don’t understand the reference.
People who already don’t like Mel will be offended by anything he says.
Revolution9, yikes, i saw that clip! Rubin claimed he didn’t realize what Gibson was getting at-I highly doubt that. For a junket, you know those “Edge of Darkness” publicists were crapping themselves
Nobody mentioned that when Mel was on stage he was standing 10 feet away from Steven Spielberg. Have they even been in a room together since ‘The Incident?’
There’s no restriction against drinking alcohol on-air.
The mistaken belief that there is probably stems from a voluntary restriction against showing actual or apparent alcohol consumption in commercials.
Please world, all thos award show “off-hand” remarks are scripted and the nominees know they’re coming. In some cases, it’s their best acting.
They’ll still go after Mel hard because they hated his “Passion Of The Christ”.
Do you seriously think anyone is going to bring up Charlie Sheen’s drinking and spousal abuse in an interview? No, they’ll just giddily ask him about “two and a half men”, because he’s one of their own.
I didn’t see it, but even in the state that Mel Gibson was in when he was arrested I still believe he was joking given his previous humorous antics with jokes about beating up homeless people and such.
The sad thing is, I believe Michael Richards was being truthful.
Yes, I believe you’re right about Michael Richards. The man is seriously angry. It’s what happens when you’re a spoilt success and then nothing happens because people don’t want to work with you cuz you’re a pain the butt. Sad, because he is talented.
Mel penchant for practical jokes is as well known as his generosity ought to be – and a community that tolerates and continues to employ and promote drug addicts wife abusers sexist bosses who prey on the interns gets all in a lather over a DUI and drunken remarks
“Meaning he knew that Rubin was a Jew?” If theres anything worse than a hypocrite its a hypocrite with ESP
Mel handled himself well! Sam Rubin did not enter into the interview unbiased and that’s why he immediately threw out the line to bait Mel. Afterwords, Rubin states that Mel publicly apoligized and yet “didn’t offer an apology during the interview”. Come on…you just contridicted yourself Sam! When you make a mistake and hurt someone and publicly apoligize, should you continue to be expected to apologize to each individual??? Really, everyone should realize we will all have our judgement day and as human beings we should leave the judgement up to the one who is fit to judge us. Everyone else should sit down and shut up and only worry about our own actions.
Let’s get one thing perfectly clear. There is no such race as a Semite. So to say anti-semite means nothing. “The word anti-Semitism was coined by Wilhelm Marr in Hamburg in 1879. Before that, hatred of Jews was simply called Jew-hatred. Marr had written a pamphlet called The Victory of Judaism over Germandom, Considered from a Non-Religious Point of View. Marr’s aim was to disassociate his hatred from any religious stance, which had long been utilized by Christian Judeophobes.”
Rubin, for a reporter, cannot be to bright if he couldn’t even understand the question, “Do you have a dog in this fight?” Very slow brain function in my opinion.
Brance
You are stupid. Who cares about the origins of the word? Do you know what it means in 2010?
Rubin knew what the phrase “Do you have a dog in this fight?” means. He just didn’t understand, at that momement, it’s relavance to the question. If Mel Gibson wasn’t such a pussy he would have said “You asked me that because you’re a jew, huh?” But he is more concerned about making money.