JERUSALEM POST
The Quiet Comeback of Mel Gibson
by Amy Spero
February 25, 2017
Nominated for an Oscar and being courted once again in Hollywood, the actor who was ostracized for a decade after his antisemitic outburst appears to be returning to the mainstream…Tonight, Mel Gibson may win an Academy Award. That shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, since the veteran actor and director has been nominated – and won – an Oscar before. Two in fact – he won Best Actor and Best Director in 1995 for the cult classic Braveheart. But 20 years is a long time in Hollywood, and even more so for someone who retreated far from the limelight for a decade after a publicized antisemitic rant left him little more than a pariah. READ MORE
