Chaos Magnet

How not to help your child

I understand honoring your father, but when you're Mel Gibson and you know that your father "follows a tiny wing of traditionalist Catholicism that views the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council as a conspiracy between Jews and Masons to take over the church" maybe it'd be a good idea if you tell him not to talk to the media while you're fighting charges that your film is anti-Semitic. That way he won't tell the Associated Press that the Holocaust is "all — maybe not all fiction — but most of it is."

Why does he say that? Well, "They claimed that there were 6.2 million (Jews) in Poland before the war and after the war there were 200,000, therefore he (Hitler) must have killed 6 million of them. They simply got up and left. They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney and Los Angeles."

Um ... riiiiiiiight.

Maybe growing up with this man is why Gibson can't understand why his film might spark controversy.

According to TV Guide, Steven Speilberg managed to sidestep the controversy, though, "declaring himself 'too smart to answer a question like that.' At a press conference Wednesday to promote the DVD release of Schindler's List, the Oscar-winning filmmaker said he had yet to see the film, which has been accused of promoting anti-Semitism. 'When I do see [it],' he added, 'the first person who will hear from me will be Mel Gibson and no one else.'"

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