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Mel Gibson is a triple force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. He is an actor-director-producer with Oscars and numerous titles to his credit; like being named among People Magazine’s 50 Most Sexiest People. From Mad Max and Lethal Weapon to Braveheart and Under and Alone Gibson’s READ poster is sure to attract attention in your adult section, bulletin boards and main entrance.
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Even though Mel Gibson has been a clean actor for many years he has made some misstakes. Last summer he was pulled over for drunking driving and made some derogatory comments about the jewish people.
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Hollywood movie star tycoon Mel Gibson won Oscar awards for both starring and directing the huge hit Braveheart (1995). He first caught the public's attention playing Max Rockatansky in Mad Max (1979) and continued to play the title role in its sequels. Gibson topped the Hollywood celebrity list and was listed in People's "Most Beautiful and Sexiest" several times.
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Though introduced to American audiences as Australian, the strikingly handsome, blue-eyed Mel Gibson actually hailed from Peekskill, New York. (He and his family had emigrated Down Under in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War.) After a season onstage with Sydney's South Australian Theatre Company where he portrayed both Oedipus and Henry IV, he made his name as the leather-clad, post-apocalyptic action hero of George Miller's "Mad Max" and in the radically different "Tim" (both 1979), for which he picked up his first of two Australian Film Institute Awards as Best Actor, playing a retarded handyman in love with Piper Laurie....
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Mel Gibson was born in Peekskill, N.Y. and immigrated to Australia as a 12-year-old with his family. After graduating from Australia's famed National Institute of Dramatic Arts, he quickly established a name for himself as one of the leading lights of the "New Wave" of Australian cinema. Starring in such acclaimed films as "Mad Max," "Gallipoli," "The Year of Living Dangerously" and "Tim," Mel Gibson launched a career which has seen him rise to the international pinnacle of his craft as an actor, producer and director of some of the most popular and critically acclaimed films of his time.
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Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American-Australian actor, director, producer and screenwriter. Born in the United States, 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 himself as a household name with the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. Gibson's direction of Braveheart made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Oscar for Best Director.[1] In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a blockbuster movie[2] that portrayed the last hours of the life of Jesus. Gibson is an honorary Officer of the Order of Australia and was ranked the world's most powerful celebrity in the annual list by Forbes magazine in 2004.[3]
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