American-born, Australian-reared actor Mel Gibson has remained one of the world's most popular film stars for nearly 20 years, and his reputation as a producer and director is on the ascendancy in the late 1990s. With his natural good looks,...

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3 1956) is an American-born actor, director and producer. Gibson moved to Australia when he was 12 years old and he later studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. After establishing...

The Jewish Week 08-29-2003 The saga surrounding "The Passion," the upcoming film depicting the crucifixion of Jesus and allegedly casting the Israelites in a highly negative way, has received widespread media coverage. In its simplest form, the controversy has been portrayed as (or...

The Mel Gibson public image meltdown, occasioned by his arrest for drunk driving and attendant anti-Semitic and misogynistic comments delivered to his arresting officers, was this summer's mass media equivalent of a perfect storm. There was a point a few days after his...

Last week, the Scottish National Party became the largest party—by one seat—in the Scottish Parliamentary election. Credit for this development belongs, in no small part, to Mel Gibson—and to Braveheart. Twelve years ago, when the epic adventure movie was first released, Scotland was a nation...

The Associated Press-AOL News poll on who people think were the villains and heroes of the last year was conducted Dec. 19-21 and is based on telephone interviews with 1,004 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The poll was conducted by Ipsos, an...