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Incredibly successful, talented and good looking, Australian actor Mel Gibson is now a Hollywood powerhouse – but it was his Aussie movies that set him up for mega-stardom. Here’s a short summary of his greatest Australian movies. If you haven’t seen them yet, next time you’re looking for a DVD you might want to take a peek.

Although actor Mel Gibson was born in the States to an American father and Australian mother, he earned his Aussie status from the age of twelve when he and his family moved back to Australia, basing themselves in Sydney. Gibson went on to become an international movie star, appearing in movies such as Braveheart, Lethal Weapon and The Patriot. However many of his best of his flicks remain those he made in Australia during the years from 1979 to 1984. These were also the films in which he proved his abilities before being spirited away to Hollywood and an American film career. His top five Aussie flicks are well worth a look-see.

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Oscar winner Mel Gibson and girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva dish to “Extra’s” Jerry Penacoli about their joint music ventures.

Gibson wrote lyrics for two songs on Grigorieva’s upcoming album. “I always felt the poetic urge coming, so I’ve been providing lyrics and stuff for a few of her songs,” said Gibson. “I’ve been writing poetry and stuff since I was a teenager. Didn’t want to admit that to my friends.”

With Mel lending a hand to his girlfriend’s album, she has big plans for his next film. “I’m scoring his next movie,” said Grigorieva. “I’ll try to write songs, but it’ll be mainly scoring. I’m sure I’ll write a couple of songs. If he’d like that… that’s great.”

The couple held a benefit concert in L.A. for the Chernobyl Children’s Project International, a cause that the two are passionate about. Grigorieva explains, “They pay for operation and save children’s lives.”

The songwriter’s “Angel” became a theme song for Chernobyl Children’s Project International and Grigorieva is donating part of her album’s proceeds to the organization.

Source: Extra

Thanks to x17 and Celebrity Gossip, I’ve uploaded several photos of Mel at the Paris premiere of ‘Edge’ and out to dinner with girlfriend Oksana.

AMCtv.com has a Mel Gibson movie quote quiz. Read the quote below.

“Any longer out on that road, and I’m one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I’ve got this bronze badge that says that I’m one of the good guys.” Name Mel’s movie character.

Know the answer? Click here to cast your vote!

Mel Gibson, the once golden leading man of cinematic violence, has been missing from cinema screens for almost a decade, during which time he had his very public breakdown. After another directing stint with Apocalypto, Gibson finally returns to the front of camera and is immediately back in familiar territory.

Edge of Darkness is sent in the same vein as Payback, dark, violent and compelling to the end. Revenge is a dominant theme in the film and the role of Thomas Craven, a veteran Boston homicide detective who goes rogue in order to hunt down the men responsible for his daughter’s murder, is right in his Gibson’s comfort zone. But even though Gibson is at the top of his game in Edge of Darkness, the film’s “renegade cop” bit would still feel stale if not being handled by a first class film making team, who manage to make even the most conventional of concepts can be made fresh and interesting again.

Nonetheless, the notion of seeing Gibson’s face in an actual movie, and not in the pages of some tabloid, is pretty strange at first, and that could be the reason for the bloody murder of Craven’s daughter. The grisly scene shifts our focus from Mel as tabloid curiosity to Mel as angry, grieving father in sudden and dramatic fashion.

And Mel’s a powerhouse machine as angry, grieving fathers, his weathered and weary face seething with barely-contained rage as he stalks his daughter’s assailants with grim, unwavering determination. The trail lands him waist-deep in a fascinatingly complex conspiracy involving secret nuclear stockpiles, shady defense contractors, duplicitous government bureaucrats, effete senators, and corrupt cops. And while none of those things matter much to Gibson’s character, who simply wants to batter bloody sense out of everyone who dares stand between him and his devastating vengeance, they’re crucial to us, keeping us riveted to our seats throughout this taut, pulse-pounding thriller.

Like Robert Downey Jr. since his brush with the law, it seems that time away from the glamour and lights of Hollywood has brought America’s leading vigilante back to where he belongs.

Source: Anthony Lund of News Blaze

After explaining his on-air insult to a Chicago reporter earlier this week as being a remark meant for his publicist, Gibson has addressed the topic while in France on his Edge of Darkness promotional tour. (Here he is with Oksana Grigorieva at last night’s premiere in Paris.)

While doing an interview on Wednesday, a journalist asked Mel, “Did you come prepared with French curse words for French journalists?”

“Non!” replied Gibson, adding, “I mean no. It usually comes out in English if I’m angry. I have a short fuse. I’m trying to work on it.”

Source: USA Today

Mel Gibson says an on-air insult this week was directed at his publicist, not a WGN reporter.

In a text message to KTLA’s Sam Rubin Wednesday, Gibson said his publicist was making faces at him off-camera, and the actor didn’t realize he was still on air when he called him an “a**hole.”

The flub was caught on camera during an interview between Gibson and WGN reporter Dean Richards about the actor’s new movie Edge of Darnkness.

Richards, like many other reporters, asked Gibson whether his audience will forgive him for his 2006 drunken outburst and anti-semitic remarks. Gibson was visibly displeased and responded with, “That’s almost four years ago, dude. I mean, I’ve moved on. I guess you haven’t.”

Gibson then requested Richards to move on, which he did and quickly wrapped up the interview. Gibson can then be heard saying, “a**hole” after sipping his coffee.

It was a situation eerily similar to a recent interview between Gibson and KTLA’s Sam Rubin.

The interview took a turn for the worse when Sam suggested some fans may be reluctant to welcome Gibson back to the big screen.

“I gather you have a dog in this fight?,” Gibson asked Sam, who is Jewish, regarding his anti-semitic remarks years ago.

The uncomfortable interview ended, and Gibson later apologized profusely to Sam during a private, off-camera meeting.

Source: KTLA

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Thanks to Zimbio, I’ve uploaded photos of Mel at the Australians In Film screening of ‘Edge’ and the Los Angeles premiere. Thanks to Just Jared, I’ve uploaded Mel at the Madrid premiere. Enjoy!

Is the world ready to forgive Mel Gibson?

Eight years ago, when Gibson rode high on the success of Signs, that question would have seemed laughable. “Forgive Mel for what? Making millions at the box office? Landing on People’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ list? What, already?

Plenty of water has rushed under Mad Mel’s bridge since then: divorce, scandal, boozy run-ins with the law and an infamous tabloid tirade.

Now in Edge of Darkness, his first starring role since Signs, Gibson isn’t merely a cop out for payback. He’s a tarnished Hollywood icon out to redeem his career.

To my mind, at least, Mad Mel succeeds.

This craggy 54-year-old actor that we see in Edge of Darkness may be far removed from the heartthrob that ignited Gallipoli or The Year of Living Dangerously… Nevertheless, I say welcome to Mel’s new hell.

Based on the acclaimed 1985 British miniseries created by Troy Kennedy Martin, Gibson plays Tom Craven, a clean Boston homicide cop with nothing to lose after his only child (Bojana Novakovic) is gunned down on their front porch.

“Craven!” a hooded goon yells out from the darkness. And bang!

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