Monday, March 22, 2004
oy, Mel, bubbe -- hak already with this meshugeh farkuckt
Me ken brechenMel Gibson on his next project: "The story that's always fired my imagination is the book of Maccabees,'' he said. "It's about Antiochus, the king who set up his religion in the Temple and forced them all to deny their true God and worship at his feet and pray to false gods. "The Maccabees stood up, and they made war, they stuck by their guns, and they came out winning. It's like a western.''
Cowboys and Hassidim? The Hatfields and the Maccabees?!? The thing is . . . the wackdoodle has a point. Americans have always been suckers for the story of the underdog who stood up for principles. I think it'll get a ...uh, what's the goyem version of an Oscar?
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