Geez, Mel….

“You should just fucking SMILE and BLOOOWW me!!”

~ Mel Gibson to Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his young child.

Not sure that’s physically possible, but I heard this raging rant on the Howard Stern show this morning, and Robin Quivers made an excellent observation.  She said that the only rant that even compares to this is Jack Nicholson’s infamous rant to Ann Margaret in Carnal Knowledge.  Of course that was brief and it was just a movie.

Damn, the guy is vicious and frightening.  I’ve read that Australians “just talk that way” – say inappropriate things, etc., but whatever.  Crazy, unhinged people also “just talk that way”.  I’m glad she’s smart enough to get herself and the kid away from him!

I’ve been a huge fan of The Road Warrior for over two decades, but I don’t think I can ever watch the movie again.  I wonder if people remember that he’d become big in the U.S. with The Year of Living Dangerously,  Mrs. Soffel, The Bounty, and The River, and I believe it was during the early days of the release of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome that he talked about having had some problems.   In interviews he spoke about having to take a break because he’d been working a lot and had pretty much lost himself, drinking heavily, flying into rages, and risking his marriage.  He took some time off and got himself together, saved his marriage, and then came back with Lethal Weapon and proceeded to become a megastar.

So there is history with him and drinking and outrageously raging….  But he wasn’t a megastar back then (less distance to fall), and people didn’t take video and audio recordings of everything and make them public.  Aaaand – he was young.   Everything is different now, pal.

Here’s his also-infamous recently released racist rant.  And the next racial slur recording released.  Of course these also include mind-boggling, raging viciousness towards Oksana, too.  And oh yeah, she ruined his life, he says.