July 22, 2010
N.Y.C. Bar Serves Up Mel 'Bipolar' Gibson Cocktail

Mood swings got you down? Back away from the phone and have a drink.

The Oak Bar in New York's Plaza Hotel is proposing a toast to Mel Gibson and his alleged telephone tirades and debuting a "bipolar" cocktail in his honor. (The actor once said he'd been diagnosed with manic depression.)

In true Gibson fashion, the concoction calls for a 1 oz. swig of gin. It also features a shot of vodka - and not just any brew. The Oak Room's executive chef Eric Hara went all out on the mental theme with Van Gogh Vodka, in honor of the artist who suffered from the disorder.

"Gibson ... Bipolar ... All these words flying around in the media just jumped out at me. So I made a Gibson, which is a classic cocktail, into something thoroughly twisted," Hara tells PEOPLE.com of his liquid creation, adding, "It's a guy drink, by the way. There's nothing sweet about a Gibson."

July 14, 2010
Gibson's Explosive Racist Rant

Mel Gibson was caught on tape spewing a vile, hate-filled racist rant and RadarOnline.com has exclusively obtained the audio proof.

We broke the story that Mel told Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his love child, "You're an embarrassment to me. You look like a f***ing bitch in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of n***ers, it will be your fault." RadarOnline.com had heard the tape.

Now, in a blockbuster world exclusive, RadarOnline.com is posting the audio of Mel's disgusting outburst. You can listen to it here.

WARNING: This audio contains graphic and racist language. It has been left unedited so that the full impact of Mel's rant can be heard.

The tape begins with Mel berating Oksana about her breast feeding because she has implants. "So you're not lying to me about fake t*ts?" he says.

"I never have," she answers.

This is the buildup to his racist rant.

Mel gets enraged and tells Oksana that she lied to him. When she denies it, he says about her breasts: "They look ridiculous. Get rid of them why don't you."

But Oksana tells him it's none of his business and Mel rants, "Keep them if you want, they look stupid. Keep 'em if you want. Look stupid. See if i give a f*ck. They look like a Vegas whore. And you go around sashaying in your tight clothes. I won't stand for that anymore."

Oksana answers that she doesn't walk around in tight clothes.

"You go out in public and it's a f*cking embarrassment to me. You look like a f*cking bitch in heat. And if you get raped by a pack of ni**ers it will be your fault. Alright? Because you provoked it. You are provocatively dressed all the time with your fake boobs that you feel you have to show off. I don't like it. I don't want that woman. I don't want you. I don't trust you. I don't love you."

Mel and Oksana have an eight-month-old daughter Lucia.

Mel is being investigated by the L.A. County Sherriff's Department in connection with domestic violence charges. Oksana has told police that Mel punched her on January 6, knocked out two of her teeth and was violent with her on several occasions, a source told RadarOnline.com.

Oksana taped Mel because she was afraid for her life after he threatened to kill her, a source told RadarOnline.com. And on one part of the tape Mel tells her: "I am going to come and burn the f**king house down... but you will blow me first." (That excerpt is not posted here.)

Mel and Oksana dated after his marriage to Robyn fell apart. RadarOnline.com posted the first photos of Mel and Oksana together, as they romped on a beach in Costa Rica. Robyn filed for divorce shortly after those pictures were posted.


But his relationship with Oksana blew apart violently and Oksana went to law enforcement on July 5 and filed a domestic violence complaint against the Braveheart star.

Mel has not commented on RadarOnline.com's series of exclusives about his racist and profane rants that are caught on tape. He berates Oksana, calls her a "whore" and a "c*nt" and calls a Latino worker a "wetback."

The actor has been condemned by Rev. Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, anti-domestic violence groups and others in the wake of our ground-breaking exclusives on his behavior.

Now we've released the first piece of audio showing Mel at his sickening worst.

July 14, 2010
Mel Gibson: Despicable he, but will his behavior keep you from buying a ticket to his movies in the future?

A second purported audiotape has emerged in which Mel Gibson heaps disgusting verbal abuse and threats on the ex-girlfriend who is the mother of his baby daughter. You're on your own if you want to find the tape and eavesdrop; I'll skip it, thanks. Instead, I'm here to wrestle with how what we know about an artist's character and personal life influences our appreciation for that artist's work. And whether it should. (I'm leaving the private lives of politicians and others who work in the public trust out of this conversation.)

The truth is, I wish I didn't know anything at all about Mel Gibson. Nothing. Lucky for me, the man has no effect on my daily existence, and I make no dent in his. I'm curious about Gibson only insofar as he is an interesting actor and filmmaker ("interesting" - how's that for a deliberately neutral term?) whose projects suggest a complicated, angry interior that, in turn, makes his projects so...interesting. (I assume you enjoy dabbling in cheap, dime-store psychoanalysis as part of your moviegoing enjoyment as much as I do.) The public Mel Gibson's movies tell me plenty.

In a piece on her website The Daily Beast, Tina Brown declares that ours is a "culture of destructive transparency." Then she applauds the release of those tapes, arguing that listening in provides a kind of vindication on behalf of "every frightened woman...living in fear of a man who has all the financial cards." My question: How? Do you really benefit from knowing that, if this leaked evidence is to be believed, the private Mel Gibson is a racist, a bigot, a misogynist, a person unraveling in hate? His sins (to put his actions in terms that he, a religious man, would understand) certainly matter to his unfortunate ex-girlfriend, to anyone he has insulted in person, and to his God.

But to put the matter in terms the godless marketplace understands, will what you know affect whether you buy a ticket to Mel Gibson's next movie? Will you boycott his work? (I won't.) Or will you be even more curious to see what he does next? His talent agency just announced that he has been dropped as a client. But he is a very rich man, with money enough to finance his own productions. What should our public response be to Mel Gibson's private bad behavior?