Mel Gibson Calls for Interns at Icon Productions

Mel Gibson, founder and CEO of Icon Productions, is advertising at United Talent Agency for interns for the fall season. Applicants must be eligible for college credits and available at least two days per week from 9 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. No Pay. [The Wrap]

In her witty tongue in cheek style, referring the many tirades that Gibson has become infamous for, Waxman adds: "Unwritten but presumed: Jews, Blacks and Russian Women need not apply."

Gibson founded Icon Productions (An American independent film production company) in 1989 with partner Bruce Davey in what he calls an answer to the Hollywood studio system. The group has since produced and distributed films in the UK and Australia through its subsidiary company, Icon Entertainment International.

Mel Gibson, son of Holocaust denier Hutton Gibson, has become infamous of late in his drunken tirades and domestic violence toward domestic partner, Oksana Grigorieva. Photographs surfaced in January of a bruise on the chin of his 2 month old daughter, that allegedly occurred when he punched Oksana in the teeth while she was holding the child. Oksana has since released a series of obscene recordings of alleged conversations with Gibson on the phone.

Icon has produced such hits as Hamlet, Brave-heart, Passion of the Christ, What Women Want and Mary and Max. The group can attribute much of the success of its projects to Gibson's celebrity.

In a series ofinterviews with Diane Sawyer on the morning news show, Good Morning America, Gibson talks about his anti-Semitic rants and attributes it to alcoholism. In an earlier interview about his father's apparent anti-Semitic sentiments, Gibson told Sawyer, "That's my dad, Diane, just leave it alone..."

Hutton Gibson, winner of the 1968 Art Flemming version of Jeopardy! was awarded a $4,680 prize, which he used the to relocate his family to Australia in order to help his sons avoid the Vietnam war. The elder Gibson would later revive his own celebrity in an interview with a Jewish Journalist in which he blamed the wars in the Middle East on Israel and said that the Holocaust was overplayed by the Jews, "They weren't in concentration camps, they were in Brooklyn and New York..."

Hutton Gibson, a known conspiracy theorist, has also made controversial statements about Pope John Paul II stating that he wasn't the real Pope, but a puppet put in the Vatican by a group of Jewish elites to take over the Catholic Church. Gibson is the author of the quarterly newsletter, "The War is Now!" Both Mel and his father are members of the Catholic splinter group, Traditionalists.

In a later interview with CNN reporter, Sam Reuben, Gibson accuses the reporter of "Having a dog in the fight," when Reuben asked him about the anti-Semitic remarks.

As reported byDavid Pakman [Midweekpolitics.com] Whoopi Goldberg defended Gibson on the View, stating that Gibson wasn't a racist, he was a friend of hers who has been to her home and played with her children.

Gibson himself denies being racist or anti-Semitic.