Dear Mel: Get Help

Mel Gibson’s latest crazy rant comes as no surprise to those who have followed his offscreen woes, but this time the legendarily short-fused actor has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he needs help. “The actor who was so gifted at playing bitter, violent men on screen is apparently drawing all too easily on a store of bitterness and anger from deep inside his own psyche,” writes Patrick Goldstein for the Los Angeles Times.

The fallout continues: Jesse Jackson tells TMZ Gibson has a “fundamental character flaw" (ya think?), while Al Sharpton’s National Action Network wonders whether the actor is “an outright bigot.” Gloria Allred theorizes that he has “a woman hating temperament,” and an NAACP rep tells Radar, “No amount of words will change his image as an out of date and out of control racist.”
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