Reply #2: Mel Gibson has been alarming me since he started this film.

[VolcanoJen]

It's sad, really, what's happening to Mel. Maybe it's his folks... check out this June 15 article from The Age, which cites a March interview Gibson's parents gave to the New York Times:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/14/1055220810601.html

Gibson's passionate defence of his film comes in the wake of a firestorm caused by his father, Hutton Gibson. In an interview with The New York Times, the 84-year-old said he did not believe the Holocaust ever took place.

Gibson senior - a former quiz show winner, Sydney radio broadcaster and resident of a small Victorian dairy town who now lives in Texas - believes the Holocaust was a fabrication because there were more Jews in Germany "after the war than before".

"Go ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body," he said. "It takes one litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?"

Joye Gibson, an American whom Hutton recently married, said: "There weren't even that many Jews in all of Europe."

So, Mel's parents are revisionist historians, too? This certainly won't help quell the firestorm that's sure to erupt when "The Passion" is finally released next spring.

Sigh....
Jennifer

ON EDIT: added link. Whoops!