| | It is sort of the nature of actors that they do not have anything in their heads not put there by someone else. That is why actors like Julia Roberts, Martin Sheen and Chrissie Hynde are interesting. Of course, there is a limit to that, as well.
One of the best lines in Team America was: "Let's all read newspapers and go on talk shows and repeat what we read as if it were our own ideas." So, if Mel Gibson is a Catholic and Kirstie Alley[1] is a Scientologist, it is to be accepted as one step better than having nothing in your head -- though some of these people come pretty close to that when they (ahem) "speak out on the issues."
The fault is not so much theirs as ours -- well, not mine, and maybe not yours, though Mister Nick and some others here seem to have made Mel Gibson part of their lives without ever actually inviting him over for dinner.
When, Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? came out, I was working a project at Honda in Marysville, Ohio. I heard one woman tell another about the movie, warning her what to expect, saying, "George Clooney is not really a doctor." Martin Sheen was never really president of the United States -- but Mel Gibson might really be a theologian.
[1] edited thanks Chris.
(Edited by Michael E. Marotta on 8/02, 1:10pm)
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