WME chief Ari Emanuel wasn't happy back in 2006, when the drunk Gibson threw offensive invective around on the Pacific Coast Highway. The Wrap digs up what Emanuel wrote for The Huffington Post:
"Alcoholism does not excuse racism and anti-Semitism. [People in the entertainment community] need to demonstrate that they understand how much is at stake in this by professionally shunning Mel Gibson and refusing to work with him ...There are times in history when standing up against bigotry and racism is more important than money."
"The shock value is zip," says one producer. "Ari was obligated to do it given that he'd gone on the record about it. Things will die down. Everything always does." The agency reportedly stopped repping Gibson the day before Limato died.

His old friend Jodie Foster has staunchly defended him; she gave him a role in her new movie The Beaver, set to be released by Summit, which will likely push back the release date. (Foster has had bad luck with her directing gigs. Russell Crowe was supposed to star in Flora Plum but broke his shoulder, and she's never been able to get it made.)
So what's going to happen to Gibson?
Folks know where to find him, although the major studios are unlikely to offer him acting roles in the near term. Currently, Gibson's filming How I Spent My Summer Vacation for his own Icon Productions. Point is, the guy can afford to pay for anything he wants to make out of his own pocket. Clearly, he's a bad drunk with a lot of nasty crap in his head. Most people get to rant with their partners in private. Gibson didn't.
9 Comments
Jonathan Ovadia | September 10, 2011 9:48 AM
Perhaps because Israel is a democratic state which has democratic elections where any citizen regardless their; age (over 18), race, religion, gender, beliefs, political views and country of origin. Go do your research before you make an ignorant comment like that
CanadianObserver | July 12, 2010 2:40 AM
If Ari Emanuel opposes racism so much how come he and virtually everyone else in theUSA supports the Apartheid state of Israel?
DavidC | July 11, 2010 7:18 AM
Such an easy target for high-horse outrage. None of us, of course, have an dark corners in our souls. God, no.
Ed | July 11, 2010 3:03 AM
Wow, Anne. Extremely disappointed. But somehow I'm not surprised.
ginger Liu | July 11, 2010 1:29 AM
This isn't fair on Gibson. How many of us say really bad things to our loved ones and especially to our exes? Yeh, that's right. EVERYONE. Lucky for us we don't have a money grubbing ex stirring the pot for $$$$. It isn't the first time I've heard people speak like this in Hollywoodland. All those "saints" who say that no one talks like this or no one is racist or sexist are telling really big porkies. What goes on behind closed doors. I wouldn't tolerate any guy speaking to me like that but no one cares about me, I'm not famous.
alan | July 10, 2010 12:17 PM
wow. weird responses. makes you wonder
Agree with Dan | July 10, 2010 10:24 AM
Anne Thompson - betrayer of her own gender and a clueless human being. Like Martin Luther King said, “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” and “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
Faye | July 10, 2010 8:28 AM
Like Mel, Anne shows her true colors. Like Mel, Anne hates women and will make excuses for an abusers behavior. Mel lost me as a fan after his first public misogynistic anti-semitic rant. Anne, you just lost a long time reader.
dan | July 10, 2010 8:05 AM
wow, nice going making excuses for the guy; numerous incidents of racism, homophobia, and also proof of domestic violence, but you give him a pass because he's a drunk with bad thoughts in his lil' head whose beaten girlfriend has the audicity to record his vileness for her own protection. BS, dude deserves everything coming to him, and if every woman treated like that by a man could record the insults and abuse maybe there'd be less domestic violence in the world.