Gibson's public flogging will only get worse before it gets better

A deal between Mel Gibson's production company, Icon Productions, and ABC to produce a miniseries about the Holocaust has been scrapped. A representative from the network declined to comment on what the cause was. ABC has said it had not received a draft for the script after nearly two years and no longer wanted to pursue the project.

Gibson has issued a public apology for anti-Semitic remarks the police are accused of covering up. In the statement, Gibson said, "There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark... I am a public person, and when I say something, either articulated and thought out, or blurted out in a moment of insanity, my words carry weight in the public arena. As a result, I must assume personal responsibility for my words and apologize directly to those who have been hurt and offended by those words."

During his arrest last Friday in Malibu for drunken driving, Gibson said the Jews "are responsible for all the wars in the world" and asked one of the arresting officers if he was a Jew. The star has entered an unknown rehab facility for an "ongoing program of recovery."