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ABC cancels project:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Disney-owned A-B-C says it has cancelled a planned mini-series about the Holocaust that it was developing with Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions.In a statement, A-B-C said "Given that it has been nearly two years and we have yet to see the first draft of a script, we have decided to no longer pursue this project with Icon."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He’s checked himself into some sort of rehab.<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t know if reporting this now was inspired by recent events or really just happened, but a Pittsburgh paper’s article on the newest church Mel is buying for his dad:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Attorney Dan Hewitt, of Latrobe, a member of the Charter Oak congregation, said the building at Mountain View is being purchased by St. Michael’s, which was started by the actor’s 87-year-old father, who recently moved to Mt. Pleasant Township from Summersville, W.Va. Hutton Gibson could not be reached for comment. <\/p>\n

The church will be led by Leonard Bealko, a defrocked priest from the Greensburg Diocese who was affiliated with the Polish National Catholic Church in Rochester, N.Y., before returning to the area. Bealko, who lives in Commodore, Indiana County, could not be reached for comment. <\/p>\n

The pending purchase apparently scraps plans the Gibsons had to build a church in Mt. Pleasant Township. The World Faith Foundation, which Hutton Gibson is affiliated with, purchased property with a ranch-style home earlier this year for $315,000 and planned to build a church there. It was to be known as St. Michael’s. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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