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Mel Gibson, Career Hanging in Balance, Requests Meeting With Jewish Leaders Over Anti-Semitic Tirade

Richard Silverstein August 1, 2006

It’s only taken him just under a week, but Mel Gibson has finally bit the bullet and...

ABC Abandons Gibson Holocaust Miniseries

Richard Silverstein August 1, 2006

I wrote here several days ago, and prior to that several months about the schande that ABC...

Mel Gibson’s Drunken Anti-Semitic Tirade Against Arresting Police Officer

Richard Silverstein July 30, 2006

Mel Gibson, drunken anti-Semite (source: European Pressphoto Agency Well, it’s finally happened. Mel Gibson has finally allowed...

Steven Colbert’s Wicked Send-Up of the Bush Presidency

Richard Silverstein May 2, 2006

Until yesterday, I knew nothing about the year’s most devastating and entertaining evisceration of the Bush Administration....

Bush’s Identity Crisis: Where’s the Rest of Me?

Richard Silverstein April 30, 2006

George Bush: “Is this me?” (photo: Roger L. Wollenberg) George Bush is having more than a political...

‘Munich’ and ‘Paradise Now’ Oscar Potential Damaged by Pro-Israel Campaign

Richard Silverstein March 7, 2006

While no one is dismissing Oscar-winner, Tsotsi, in the Best Foreign Language Film category as anything less...

Israeli Policy Forum’s M.J. Rosenberg: Israeli Campaign Against ‘Paradise Now’ “Mindless Hysteria”

Richard Silverstein March 4, 2006

I’m glad to know that my online colleague, M.J. Rosenberg, Director of Policy Analysis for Israel Policy...

‘Paradise Now’ for Oscar!

Richard Silverstein March 3, 2006

Agence France Presse notes in Oscar-nominated pleas for Mideast peace spark controversy, the controversy surrounding two films...

Brokeback Mountain and the Cost of Love Denied

Richard Silverstein December 20, 2005

My wife and I never get a chance to see movies anymore with our three little ones...

David Brooks Attacks Spielberg’s ‘Munich’

Richard Silverstein December 12, 2005

The word is out that some American Jewish leaders don’t like Munich. David Brooks (this link will...

Mel Gibson Developing Holocaust Mini-Series

Richard Silverstein December 7, 2005

Gibson as Biblical patriarch–next role? (source: European Pressphoto Agency I kid you not. I wouldn’t have believed...

Dumbo as Political Allegory

Dumbo as Political Allegory

November 28, 2005

I started to write this post a year ago or so after first seeing Dumbo (that’s right,...

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Mel Gibson, Career Hanging in Balance, Requests Meeting With Jewish Leaders Over Anti-Semitic Tirade

ABC Abandons Gibson Holocaust Miniseries

Mel Gibson’s Drunken Anti-Semitic Tirade Against Arresting Police Officer

Steven Colbert’s Wicked Send-Up of the Bush Presidency

Bush’s Identity Crisis: Where’s the Rest of Me?

‘Munich’ and ‘Paradise Now’ Oscar Potential Damaged by Pro-Israel Campaign

Israeli Policy Forum’s M.J. Rosenberg: Israeli Campaign Against ‘Paradise Now’ “Mindless Hysteria”

‘Paradise Now’ for Oscar!

Brokeback Mountain and the Cost of Love Denied

David Brooks Attacks Spielberg’s ‘Munich’

Mel Gibson Developing Holocaust Mini-Series

Dumbo as Political Allegory

Richard Silverstein

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