I’m mad at Whoopi. She’s totally off not to recognize that Mel Gibson is a racist, sexist, anti-Semite, Mad Max man.
Regardless, I have a hard time getting worked up about Mel Gibson. It is not like we didn’t already know he was bad news. There were clues. The 7 children with his first wife, the anti-Semitism and sexism displayed in the 2006 drunken rant, and The Passion of the Christ — all consequential indicators of zealous incongruity.
I was angry when Whoopi defended Polanski in the infamous Whoopi says it’s not rape rape incident because the topic as it applied to the story was relevant to the issue of at hand — rape. This Mel Gibson thing, while pertinent, is immaterial to the real the issues of race, misogyny, sexism. It’s relevant to Mel Gibson, his career, his lovers his haters, Radar Online’s pocketbook and so on. In the scheme of things — not so significant.
If anyone wants to discuss something directly related to the matters at hand, why not discuss the new political correctness requiring everyone who will run for office, or is in office and up for reelection during the next decade, to parrot that old “the tea party is not racist, just inclusive of few people who express racist views” slant.
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My original post was about the song So In Love. I was distracted. I still want to post the song, if only because a blogger should always provide relief from the storm of their rants. That, and I’m recently obsessed with this song and it’s various incarnations — from Ella Fitzgerald to K.D. Lang.
Written originally for the musical Kiss Me Kate, there are hundreds of versions and styles of this Cole Porter song. I like most of them. This the Lara Fabian & Mario Frangoulis version as it is performed in the play Kiss Me Kate, in the film De-Lovely.
Peace
