Some Lone Star savant on the Dallas Morning News editorial board is cheesed off over the report that some in Hollywood intend to blacklist Mel Gibson over “The Passion of the Christ.” Excerpt:
It’s interesting to see what a filmmaker has to do to make Hollywood’s new blacklist. Get indicted for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl and flee the country to avoid trial? Nope: Roman Polanski earned an Oscar last year. Serve a prison stint for molesting a 12-year-old boy? Nope: Disney hired ex-con Victor Salva to make Powder in 1995. Consort with a dictator? Nope: Steven Spielberg rhapsodized that dinner with Fidel Castro was “the eight most important hours of my life.”
Be a pious Catholic who makes a film about the death of Jesus Christ faithful to the Gospels? Guards, take him away!