22 MARCH 2005.-The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation today announced that celebrities Mel Gibson, Patricia Heaton, Randy Travis and Pat Boone have issued a fervent plea to reinsert Terri Schiavo"s feeding tube.
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Today the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation ( www.terrisfight.org ) announced that celebrities Mel Gibson, Patricia Heaton, Randy Travis and Pat Boone have issued a fervent plea to reinsert Terri Schiavo"s feeding tube.
Actor and director Mel Gibson said, "I fully support the efforts of Mr. & Mrs. Schindler to save their daughter, Terri Schiavo, from a cruel starvation. Terri"s husband should sign the care of his wife over to her parents so she can be properly cared for."
Cheryl Ford, R.N., nurse advocate for the Terri Schiavo Foundation thanked the celebrities saying, "On behalf of Bob and Mary Schindler, we are extremely grateful for the outpouring of support we have received from Mr. Gibson, Ms. Heaton, Mr. Travis, Mr. Boone, Ms. Michaelis and Mr. Galley. We remain extremely hopeful that justice will prevail and Terri's feeding tube is reinserted."
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation is the official organization responsible for speaking on behalf of the Schindler family. For more information, please visit the foundation"s website at www.terrisfight.org .
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24 MARCH 2005.- MAGO ISLAND
Mel Gibson has purchased the 5,411-acre (2,164-hectare) Mago Island from Japan's Tokyu Corp. for about US$15 million (euro11 million).
The Fiji government's Cabinet approved the sale last month Laisa Raratabu, principal lands officer, said :
"We received all the papers from Mel Gibson's agents in mid-December last year and approval from the minister (of lands) and endorsement from the Cabinet came on Feb. 9,"
Any legal challenge against the sale is likely to be difficult now that Gibson is the legal owner,
the 500 tribespeople are raising funds to challenge the sale in court, the Fiji Times newspaper reported.
Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase said the government won't interfere with the sale of private property.
"The sale was between the owner who has found a willing buyer," he said. "The government cannot do anything because it is a freehold property."
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Under the deed of sale, Gibson also bought the lagoon around the tropical hideaway, an unusual step, Raratabu said.
"I think there's only one other island in Fiji that is in the same situation as Mago," with the sale of its lagoon included, he said.
Under Fiji law Gibson is required only to "honor the sovereignty of Fiji" now that he owns the island -- and explain his reasons for buying it.
Raratabu said the purchase documents show the star said he wants to turn Mago into his own private getaway.
"He has stated his intention to retain the pristine conditions of the island. He said he wouldn't want to disturb the environment of Mago," he said.
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28 MARCH 2005.- SURTSEY AND MAGO
Surtsey Volcano
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Mel Gibson has bought Surtsey Volcano. Heīs going to make it reinstall in Mago Island.
According to Europa Press, the famous actor and director has said: "Iīve got a great family. We need a large barbecue. I want to retain the pristine conditions of Mago. Volcano fumes contaminate less than petrol fumes."
Mel Gibson has paid US$1.5 million for Surtsey.
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31 MARCH 2005.-MEL GIBSON ON SHIAVO.
Mel Gibson, the Hollywood star who directed "The Passion of the Christ," says the case of Terri Schiavo is a modern-day crucifixion with a pro-death agenda driving it.
"It's just completely wrong to deprive this poor woman of food and water," Gibson said on Sean Hannity's national radio show yesterday. "It's a prolonged and cruel execution."
"I'm appalled and stunned that we've gotten to this," Gibson said. "I just sit here watching this whole scenario play out in front of me with my mouth hanging wide open, that our country has come to this. I think it's really a dark, black day. And I think that this final appeal - it's too little too late. It's an attempt [by] the powers that be to sort of really just cover their a-- later on so they can say we tried, but in fact, they're not trying real hard."
"What happened to just being a human being, you know? It's nothing more than state-sanctioned murder. All the big guys, they all have their hands tied up by some tinhorn judge down there. Come on, when they want to whip a judge, they got no problem doing that. Look what they did to [Ten Commandments proponent Roy Moore] in a heartbeat. So they can do it if they want. They just don't want to."
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Mel Gibson
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Gibson acknowledges Schiavo has "some brain damage," but adds "she's not a vegetable," noting the debate over whether or not she's in a persistent vegetative state is not resolved.
"It hasn't had a fair going-over yet, so to just go right to this crucifixion of this woman ... even a dog has more rights. You do this to an animal, they'll lock you up, but this is a human being we're doing this to."
"It's a precedent that they set," he said. "We may be able to save a few Social Security dollars later on down the track simply by pulling the plug on the infirmed or the disabled or the aged. It's the inevitability of gradualism. ... There is an agenda, and people say 'Well, they can't all be in it together,' but there's no other way to explain this behavior."
For all the ugliness Gibson sees in the starvation of Schiavo, he warned, "We'll see worse than this."
When Hannity pointed out the case is a defining moment for society, Gibson responded, "A lot depends on it. If she does travel into the next dimension, hopefully it will mean something and we'll learn from it, and something positive will come from it. It's just a terrible tragedy to watch state-sanctioned murder."
Terry Shiavo died last Thursday. Rest in Peace
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8 APRIL 2005.-MEL GIBSON FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!
Activist inspired by actor's stand on Schiavo, says his charisma needed.
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Inspired by Mel Gibson's strong stand against the dehydration death of Terri Schiavo, an Oregon businessman has begun a campaign to see the "Passion" director run for president as a Republican in 2008, saying he's the only potential candidate who has the star power and charisma needed to keep Democrat Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
"Mel Gibson is perhaps one of the few men in America who has shown exceptional courage in facing up to the left and the 'culture of death,'" James Welsh told WorldNetDaily. "Americans of religious conviction have been under relentless assault for at least the last 10 to 15 years. While we have been successful in achieving some gains, our defeat in the Terri Schiavo battle has made manifest the need for new generalship in this culture war."
In preparation for what he hopes will be a Gibson candidacy, Welsh has purchased 12 Internet domain names relating to a presidential run, including gibson2008.com.
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Welsh, who owns a grocery store in the coastal town of Manzanita, Ore., believes none of the current crop of possible GOP contenders can beat Clinton, who he says "will be" the Democratic nominee.
"There is no 'regular' Republican who has the necessary charisma to galvanize us to work for his election," Welsh said. "Even the usually good people like Sen. Rick Santorum, nice as they are, do not have it. What I want to do is somehow create a momentum from several fronts that will ultimately, in late 2007, coalesce into an unstoppable candidacy of Mel Gibson."
Welsh says President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush, "while good men, were found wanting [in the Schiavo case] and the religious right is disappointed. We lost this battle because our leaders failed to muster on the field of battle.
We must look for new leadership."
As WorldNetDaily reported, Gibson was outspoken last week on the eve of Schiavo's death, calling it "a prolonged and cruel execution."
"It's just completely wrong to deprive this poor woman of food and water," he told radio talk-show host Sean Hannity. Brain-injured 15 years ago, Schiavo died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order.
Without naming names, Gibson implicated the Bushes for not doing more to save Schiavo:
"It's nothing more than state-sanctioned murder. All the big guys, they all have their hands tied up by some tinhorn judge down there. Come on, when they want to whip a judge, they got no problem doing that. Look what they did to [Ten Commandments proponent Roy Moore] in a heartbeat. So they can do it if they want. They just don't want to."
It's that kind of boldness that's needed in a presidential candidate, contends Welsh.
"No longer can we give passes to Republican politicians just because they are Republicans," he said. "How can we fight the battle for life if we must have the Giulianis in our ranks?" - a reference to the former New York City mayor who tops many lists of possible GOP presidential contenders. Giuliani is in favor of legal abortion.
Welsh, whose political involvement dates back to Barry Goldwater's candidacy in 1964, envisions intentional support of Gibson among "conservative media" outlets that would translate into popular support among the party faithful. He says he has written several letters to various organizations about the possibility of supporting a Gibson candidacy and hopes a college Republican group or similar organization might put together a website that could be publicized on blogs so that eventually, "some influential people would go and talk to Mel" about a presidential run.
"We had another actor who made a pretty good president," Welsh said, referring to President Ronald Reagan.
Of Clinton's appeal, Welsh commented, "There is no one who will be able to match her media presence except Gibson. A Bob Dole or a Gerald Ford ain't gonna cut it."
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8 APRIL 2005.-MEL GIBSON WONīT ATTEND POPEīS FUNERAL.
Don't expect to see Mel Gibson at the Pope's funeral.
The devout Catholic won't be attending the pontiff's funeral, his office tells The Scoop, but had no information on buzz that he nixed plans to visit the Pope's body when it was lying in state.
"He had hoped to visit to view the body, but the logistics of it all were complicated," says a source. "You can't have a star like Mel Gibson waiting in line like that - it would have created a scene - but I guess it wouldn't have been appropriate to have him moved ahead of the crowd like a foreign dignitary."
The Pope reportedly praised Gibson's 2003 film "The Passion of the Christ" when he uttered: "It is as it was." It was later denied that the Pope had made that comment.
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11 APRIL 2005.-"The Dive From Clausen's Pier"
"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" co-star Michelle Trachtenberg will play the lead role in "The Dive From Clausen's Pier," Lifetime's adaptation of Ann Packer's novel.
John Wierick adapted Packer's book, which focuses on Carrie Bell (Trachtenberg), a young woman who is having doubts about marrying her high school sweetheart. After he's paralyzed in a diving accident, she's forced to reexamine her life and flees to New York. Once she finds professional success and new love in the Big Apple, she gets to reexamine her life again.
Harry Winer ("Alias," "Veronica Mars") is adapting the production, which comes from Con Artists, the television arm of Mel Gibson's Icon Productions, and Fox Television Studios.
"We are thrilled that Michelle is joining us to bring Ann Packer's celebrated novel to life," Trevor Walton, Lifetime's senior vice president of original movies. "It's an absorbing, suspenseful and sexy story that explores the dilemma of choosing between what you feel you owe to the people who love you and what you owe yourself. We are also delighted that this movie marks our first foray into partnership with Icon Productions and Fox Television Studios."
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11 APRIL 2005.- MEL GIBSON AND METAL BAND
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Last March Mel Gibson sent his legal guns after the Swedish metal band In Aeternum. According Blabbermouth.net, Gibson's attorneys threatened the death/black metal band and their record label, Agonia Records, with a lawsuit over the cover art to the group's mini CD "No Salvation," which reportedly used a photo from Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ". The label was forced to pull the mini-CD from stores to avoid litigation.
The band offered the following statement: "IN AETERNUM appologizes for any problems we may have caused by using the picture from the motion picture 'The Passion of the Christ'. We did not intend to interfere with any copyright laws and was not aware of the fact that it belonged to that particular motion picture. Apologies to Mel Gibson and Icon Productions."
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13 APRIL 2005.-GIBSON SETS SIGHTS ON POPEīS LIFE
Mel Gibson is reportedly set to turn Pope John Paul II's story into a Hollywood movie.
Word has it that he has already filmed the ending to the movie. He also reportedly despatched a production crew to Rome to film the Pope's funeral.
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16 APRIL 2005.- THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST SOUNDTRACK
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - "The Passion of the Christ: Songs" won for special event album at Wednesday's Gospel Music Association awards show.
Another album from the movie, "The Passion of the Christ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack," won for instrumental album.
"Thanks again to Mel Gibson for making this amazing film which God has used in amazing ways," said Steven Curtis Chapman, one of 21 artists on "The Passion of the Christ: Songs" album.
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25 APRIL 2005.- FILM STAR VISITS RETIRED BISHOP (Altoona Mirror)
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"Oscar-winning film director and actor Mel Gibson was in town last week to visit retired Bishop James Hogan at Garvey Manor Nursing Home.
Gibson came Monday evening and Tuesday morning - disguised in a wig and trench coat - according to a source.
Some staffers recognized Gibson, despite the disguise, the source said."
We have no pictures of this extraordinary event published by the Altoona Mirror, but here you can see a photo of Mel Gibson disguised as Mel Gibson.
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28 APRIL 2005.- ASCAP AWARDS
Honorees at the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers event Wednesday night included John Debney, a veteran film composer who reached a new peak last spring with his work on Mel Gibson's blockbusting "The Passion of the Christ." He received ASCAP's Henry Mancini award for his work on "Passion" and more than 50 other features, including the current releases "Sin City" and "The Pacifier."
Debney admits he's still passionate about his music for "Christ."
"It's as though it won't let go of me," he told Associated Press Television News. "I'm writing a symphony now that is based upon a lot of the music and things that I wrote for the film and we are going to premiere it (this summer) in Rome."
Director Adam Shankman ("The Wedding Planner") came to present Debney's award.
Composer Mark Snow received The ASCAP Golden Note Award for his more than 20 years of work.
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1 MAY 2005.- GIBSON VISITED VERACRUZ
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Actor and director Mel Gibson is going to shoot a new film in Veracruz (Mexico). Gibson spent six days in Mexico, from Apri 16t to April 21st. He flatly refused to be interviewed by the local press., but he said that he was very impressed by the beauty of the scenery.
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3 MAY 2005.- FIRST MEL, NOW RUSSELL JOINS EAST SYDNEYWOOD
Russell Crowe has joined the ranks of the commercial property world with the $3.9 million purchase of a warehouse in Riley Street, East Sydney.
He joins Mel Gibson, who has a property nearby that houses one of his Icon Productions companies.
Real estate agents say the area around East Sydney and Surry Hills is fast becoming an enclave for film and television businesses.
Crowe's new site is said to be intended for use as a film production office and administration centre.
Gibson's Icon Productions is in property developer and investor Matthew Lepouris's Berman House, which is now valued at $15.3 million.
Crowe's acquisition at 98-104 Riley Street was considered shrewd by property experts, who say the commercial sector is offering far better returns than residential.
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