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Melvin L. "Mel" Gibson (born December 30, 1940) is an American former professional basketball player for the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers. The 6'3" former Western Carolina University guard played a single season in the NBA with the Lakers during the 1963-64 season. He appeared in nine games and recorded a total of 13 points.
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Mel Gibson is a very popular and controversial American actor. Born in Peekskill, New York in 1956, Gibson was one of ten children raised in a very conservative, Catholic household. In 1968, Gibson's father, Hutton, decided to escape with the family to Australia to avoid the horrors of the Vietnam War. Gibson grew up in Australia and soon came to possess a very thick Australian accent.
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Extremely devoted to Mel Gibson's faith, Mel Gibson has donated money to finance the construction of "independent" traditional Catholic chapels in Malibu, California, and in a small town in West Virginia. Only the Latin Tridentine Mass is offered in both chapels. Gibson has said that Mel Gibson attends Mass every day.
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Mel Gibson has eclectic tastes in music and is particularly fond of Italian opera. He is a lover of Italian Renaissance artwork and is a great admirer of the 17th century artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Much of the cinematography in The Passion of the Christ was modeled after style of this painter.[44][45]
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Mel Gibson plays Benjamin Martin, a widowed family man with 7 children, living in the South near Charleston when the Revolutionary War opens up. His eldest son Gabriel Martin [Heath Ledger] set off to enlist without his father’s permission, starts a chain reaction that leads to the family entanglement in the war. Several articles about “The Patriot” provide in depth close ups of Mel’s “glimmer-of-madness”* [Scorpio planets in his fifth house of children, the heart, drama] and aesthetic sacrifice. The traits seem content within the Martin Riggs character of “Lethal Weapon” fame, and surface again in augmented mode when Jerry Fletcher is stirred up in "Conspiracy Theory."
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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. Peter Weir's World War I drama "Gallipoli" and "Mad Max 2" (both 1981), Miller's transcendent follow-up to "Mad Max" (released in the USA as "The Road Warrior" since American audiences knew nothing of the barely-released earlier movie), established Gibson as an international star. "The Year of Living Dangerously" (1982), Weir's film about the political upheavals of 1960s Indonesia, gave him his first romantic lead opposite Sigourney Weaver and launched him as a sex symbol.
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