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The reports of the death of Mel Gibson’s career have been greatly exaggerated:
Mel Gibson’s bloody epic “Apocalypto” debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie, proving the filmmaker still can deliver a winner despite his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer.
Let me hereby predict that, Michael Richards’ tirade notwithstanding, “Seinfeld” DVDs will sell as well as they ever have and that the show will continue to thrive in syndication. On the other hand, Andy Dick’s career is toast.
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I’m just shocked that he has had two successful. subtitle-only flicks in a row.
It helps his cause that there wasn’t video of the event.
And I read somewhere the Seinfeld DVD is selling quite well.
Richard’s “career” however, is another story. I was unaware than he had one prior to the recent kerfuffle, so I have to wonder about its current state.
Mark/Steven:
Indeed, my sense is that these tirades have little impact on their careers because 1) people can generally separate performance from real life and 2) neither of the latter two had active careers of note, anyway. “Seinfeld” and “News Radio,” though, are still as funny as they ever were.
I would have though “Apocalypto” would have tanked mainly because the premise of the movie struck me as not interesting to a large audience. I did think, though, that there would be people who would shy away rather than risk get tarred with the questionable side of Gibson’s personality.
I think most consumers seperate the actions from the entertainer. There are several actors and actresses whose actions I don’t care for and whose politics I loath, but if they make a movie that interests me, then I am likely to see it.
I confess here that I wasn’t interested in seeing The Passion (mostly because of the violence, and I don’t need to see the violence in pictures to grasp what The Passion of Christ was about) and I have no real interest in seeing this one, mostly because I have no desire to watch that violence either. The subtitles don’t bother me quite as much.
