oped: Indeed Hollywood is full of Hypocrisy..
SEE:
Sylvester Stallone Hypocrit of the year award...!
http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2014/06/sylvester-stallone-hypocrit-of-year.html
Garden Party...Indeed all need to learn this lesson!
http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2014/06/garden-partyindeed-all-need-to-learn.html
By DAVID BAUDER
NEW YORK (AP) — Gary Oldman is
defending fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin from critics of
their comments on Jews and homosexuals, saying people need to take a
joke.
Oldman's manager, in a
statement issued Tuesday as the actor's expletive-laden interview with
Playboy began getting attention, said Oldman was criticizing hypocrisy
and finds any kind of bigotry unacceptable and disgraceful.
During his interview, , Oldman
decried the "political correctness" that ensnared the two actors. 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 City 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.
"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," Oldman
said in the interview.
He said he's not a bigot, "but I'm defending all the wrong people. I'm saying Mel's all right, Alec's a good guy."
Douglas
Urbanski, Oldman's longtime manager, said in an emailed statement to
The Associated Press on Tuesday that Oldman was not defending his fellow
actors, despite Oldman's comment in the article that he was indeed
defending the actors.
"It simply cannot be read any
other way, and to put it any other way is simply cherry picking
something, stating it inaccurately, and creating news where there is
none," Urbanski said.
He said Oldman was "illustrating the absurd by being absurd."
Oldman stars in the
upcoming "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," out July 11. Distributor 20th
Century Fox declined to comment on Oldman's Playboy remarks.
Oldman
also appears in a TV commercial for HTC mobile phones, which sought to
distance itself Tuesday from the actor's remarks. "Mr. Oldman's views
are his own and do not reflect the views of HTC," the company said in a
statement to the AP.
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