Saturday, June 28, 2014

Oldman's Insults

Now I really like Commissioner Gordon:

"Gary Oldman apologizes for controversial remarks" Associated Press   June 26, 2014

Gary Oldman has apologized for defending fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin from critics of their controversial remarks about Jews and gays. ‘‘I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy interview were offensive to many Jewish people,’’ Oldman wrote in an open letter to the Anti-Defamation League late Tuesday. ‘‘Upon reading my comments in print — I see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype.’’ During the Playboy interview, Oldman decried the ‘‘political correctness’’ that ensnared Gibson and Baldwin. Gibson delivered an anti-Semitic rant in 2006 while being arrested for drunk driving, and he later apologized. Baldwin last year was accused of using an anti-gay slur in a New York street confrontation. Oldman said that Gibson ‘‘got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things. We’re all [expletive] hypocrites.’’ He said he didn’t blame Baldwin for using the slur because somebody bothered him, and that ‘‘Mel Gibson is in a town that’s run by Jews and he said the wrong thing because he’s actually bitten the hand that I guess has fed him, and doesn’t need to feed him anymore because he’s got enough dough.’’ In his letter to the ADL, Oldman wrote, ‘‘I hope you will know that this apology is heartfelt, genuine, and that I have an enormous personal affinity for the Jewish people.’’

Of course, it is okay for some to say such things with no commotion at all.

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You already know what I think of Mel, and look who went for a ride with the Globe: 

"Actor Alec Baldwin was arrested after allegedly acting belligerently toward two officers who had stopped him for riding his bicycle the wrong way down a New York City street, police said Tuesday. Baldwin was riding his bike at 16th Street and Fifth Avenue near Union Square Park in Manhattan, police said, when he was stopped at about 10:15 a.m. and asked to show identification. That’s when police said Baldwin, 56, refused and acted belligerently, prompting the officers to handcuff him and take him, and his bicycle, to a nearby precinct. Baldwin was issued two summonses — for riding a bike the wrong way down a street and for disorderly conduct — and was then released, police said. He is scheduled to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court on the disorderly conduct summons July 24 (AP)."