{"id":7834,"date":"2004-02-26T10:41:37","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T10:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/will_it_hurt_his_career.html"},"modified":"2004-02-26T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T10:41:37","slug":"will_it_hurt_his_career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/will_it_hurt_his_career.html","title":{"rendered":"Will it hurt his career?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NYTimes ponders<\/a><\/p>\n

Hollywood is a close-knit world, and friendships and social contact are critical in the making of deals and the casting of movies. Many of Hollywood’s most prominent figures are also Jewish. So with a furor arising around the film, along with Mr. Gibson’s reluctance to distance himself from his father, who calls the Holocaust mostly fiction, it is no surprise that Hollywood \u2014 Jewish and non-Jewish \u2014 has been talking about little else, at least when it’s not talking about the Oscars.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, the principals of DreamWorks, have privately expressed anger over the film, said an executive close to the two men.<\/p>\n

The chairmen of two other major studios said they would avoid working with Mr. Gibson because of “The Passion of the Christ” and the star’s remarks surrounding its release.<\/p>\n

Neither of the chairmen would speak for attribution, but as one explained: “It doesn’t matter what I say. It’ll matter what I do. I will do something. I won’t hire him. I won’t support anything he’s part of. Personally that’s all I can do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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