{"id":676,"date":"2006-11-15T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/11\/mel-gibson-apocalyptos-double.html"},"modified":"2006-11-15T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T22:31:00","slug":"mel-gibson-apocalyptos-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/11\/mel-gibson-apocalyptos-double.html","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson, “Apocalypto’s” Double Visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, this summer\u2019s drunken anti-Semitic rant was a P.R. faux-pas. But just as Mel Gibson overcame his more veiled anti-Semitic reading of the Gospel in “The Passion of the Christ<\/a>” by coaxing support for the deeply Catholic film among evangelicals, he’s determined to overcome his Cuervo Nacht jabbering by showing his new film, “Apocalypto<\/a>,” to minority audiences.<\/p>\n

So far, to the wondering surprise of National Public Radio<\/a> and the perturbation of The Los Angeles Times, his campaign is working. The Latino Business Association, a Los Angeles group, gave Gibson its Chairman\u2019s Visionary Award. “If that’s all it takes to overlook its honoree’s notorious anti-Semitic ramblings this summer,” the Times\u2019 editorial page<\/a> announced, “the group is clearly a cheap date.”<\/p>\n

The Times followed that crack, however, with an account <\/a>of how much time and effort Gibson is willing to put in. Currying favor with Native Americans as well as Latinos, the director has done Q&A sessions at small screenings as far afield as Oklahoma City and Austin, Texas. Sure, Gibson has a habit of digging himself a deep hole. But it may not matter when you\u2019re the hardest wooing man in show business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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