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The Famous Nutcases For 7/1/10: He Has A Lot Of Explaining To Do To Danny Glover

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Oh dear : More evidence that Mel Gibson's tongue is a "Lethal Weapon." The bad boy actor was reportedly caught on tape launching into a racist, profanity-laced tirade aimed at his ex - the latest and ugliest development in the couple's bitter legal battle. "You're an embarrassment to me," Gibson tells Oksana Grigorieva, according to gossip site RadarOnline.com. "You look like a f---ing pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n---ers, it will be your fault."

The Cinema For 1/29/10: Gibson Returns And Another Candidate For Worst Movie Of The Year

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The Cinema is back: Back to being his quality angry self And so is Mel Gibson, as he is a Boston detective trying to find out who murdered his daughter in "Edge of Darkness" The reaction to this movie is almost 50/50. Half like it, and half don't like it. Richard Roeper gave it a solid "B". However, the Globe and Mail's Liam Lacey didn't feel that the directing of the movie matched the quality writing . But he did highlight how an apoplectic Gibson is better than any other verison of him: The dialogue is noticeably above par thanks to A-list screenwriters William Monahan (The Departed) and Andrew Bovell (Lantana). From them we get the Gibson line, “You’d better decide whether you’re hanging on the cross or banging in the nails.” Or Winstone’s fatalistic observation: “We live a while, and then we die sooner than we planned." Smart dialogue doesn’t extend to the movie's structure – it grows more wobbly as it progresses, suffering, per...