FLASH! FROM LIZ SMITH | 04/17/2009 3:00 pm
LIZ SMITH FLASH! Mrs. Mel Gibson: What Took You So Long?
FLASH! London newspapers say “Good-bye, Mr. Squeaky Clean” to Mel Gibson, and now BetOnline.com is posting odds, known as the
“over/under,” on the amount of his divorce after 28 years of marriage.
I reported the other day that Hollywood and the world is pretty much asking, “What took her so long?” in the matter of Mel’s lovely wife Robyn, who has given him six boys and a girl and a lot of patience.
As the man we all simply adored in the “Lethal Weapon” movies became a headline-making drunk, anti-Semite, minimizer of women (he denies he called a lady cop “Sugar Tits”), crucifixion-fixated Roman Catholic and philosopher about domestic bliss (“Life is about love and commitment and screw anyone who thinks that’s a cliché!”) – we can now look forward as Mel divvies up with Robyn their houses in Malibu, Fiji, Costa Rica and a South Pacific Island, plus his personal fortune, estimated at $350 million plus.
Here’s where the betting comes in. The “over” is favored at minus-150 or 1-to-1.5 odds. Meaning if a bettor believes the settlement will exceed $350 million, they must risk $150 for every $100 they would like to win.
The “under” carries odds of plus-120 or 1.2-to-1 odds. You’d win $120 for every $100 risked if the settlement comes in under $350 million.
BetOnline.com says, “Historically, our betting market has proven to be quite accurate in predicting future events. We did a ton of volume on last year’s presidential election and the odds, once the public money weighed in, correctly predicted that Obama would win early on.”
I still think Mrs. Mel Gibson might have begun having second thoughts about her marriage after Mel confessed that his blamelessly Anglican wife would suffer eternal damnation for not being a Catholic and she would not be able to accompany him into heaven.
“over/under,” on the amount of his divorce after 28 years of marriage.
I reported the other day that Hollywood and the world is pretty much asking, “What took her so long?” in the matter of Mel’s lovely wife Robyn, who has given him six boys and a girl and a lot of patience.
As the man we all simply adored in the “Lethal Weapon” movies became a headline-making drunk, anti-Semite, minimizer of women (he denies he called a lady cop “Sugar Tits”), crucifixion-fixated Roman Catholic and philosopher about domestic bliss (“Life is about love and commitment and screw anyone who thinks that’s a cliché!”) – we can now look forward as Mel divvies up with Robyn their houses in Malibu, Fiji, Costa Rica and a South Pacific Island, plus his personal fortune, estimated at $350 million plus.
Here’s where the betting comes in. The “over” is favored at minus-150 or 1-to-1.5 odds. Meaning if a bettor believes the settlement will exceed $350 million, they must risk $150 for every $100 they would like to win.
The “under” carries odds of plus-120 or 1.2-to-1 odds. You’d win $120 for every $100 risked if the settlement comes in under $350 million.
BetOnline.com says, “Historically, our betting market has proven to be quite accurate in predicting future events. We did a ton of volume on last year’s presidential election and the odds, once the public money weighed in, correctly predicted that Obama would win early on.”
I still think Mrs. Mel Gibson might have begun having second thoughts about her marriage after Mel confessed that his blamelessly Anglican wife would suffer eternal damnation for not being a Catholic and she would not be able to accompany him into heaven.
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He is a hypocritical, lying creep and worth $1B with no prenup and all his actions in public caught on tape including playing around with girls that are younger than his children.
She’s going to nail him and he deserves it. His one good film was ‘What Women Want’ other than that he’s just a drunken creep.
My condolences to his wife for sticking it out this long undoubtedly for her children. Hope she gets a more decent man next time.
Sorry, French. His movies have made lots of money and good reviews, including "Lethal Weapon" and "Passion of the Christ": oh, wait! Did I say Christ? Does that make Satan’s head spin? Well, it had a good message, made money and made HISTORY.
Still think it’s TACKY to bet on amounts… tres tacky for the French, in case they don’t (can’t) read English.
He was great in What Women Want but there were a couple more that he held his own in.
Mad Max
The Year of Living Dangerously
This is just a suggestion… perhaps if I just threw it out there??
Why don’t we spend less time laughing, belittling others (regardless of what they have done) & judging them? That means we could spend our time encouraging others, talking about things that would make us knowledgeable (things worth spending our time on?!), and focus on being more positive about humanity?!!
I’m not judging anyone, PLEASE DON’T THINK THAT!!… if this makes you happy - more power to you! :-)
"SMALL MINDS DISCUSS PEOPLE. AVERAGE MINDS DISCUSS EVENTS. GREAT MINDS DISCUSS IDEAS." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
As a Jew with some Catholic friends and relatives, I find that Mel Gibson is nothing more than a horse’s a—. I am sure that his wife has her own reasons to divorce him. I wish her luck with whatever the future holds for her. As far as different priests with different mindsets, this is a true story that happened to a friend of mine, a Catholic girl from an Italian family. She was in college and went to a party and was raped at the party by one of the boys there. He went to the trouble of getting her drunk first, since this was in the time before today’s drugs in drinks, whatever they are called. When she came to, she knew she could never tell her family because her father would have murdered (or would have had someone murder) the boy, and would probably have ended up in prison. She waited until she knew she was pregnant, then told her brother and his fiancee, who was not a Catholic. They said they would support her in whatever she wanted to do, but would not make a decision for her. She decided on an abortion and had one. She walked around with this burden for several years and it colored her whole life. She stopped going to church, spent less time with her family, became depressed. One day, passing a church she had never entered before, she went inside and made confession. The priest, she told me later, was young, or sounded young. He understood that she felt that she had had no choice. He forgave her. She walked out of that church a different person. How fortunate she had been to find that priest instead of the one who told another friend of mine to pray that she would not become pregnant when she asked if she might take or use birth control after her doctor had said another pregnancy would kill her. We buried her a year later. Her husband, a former Catholic, is not raising the kids Catholic now. But, back to Mel Gibson. I believe that we make our own heaven or hell here on earth. Until someone comes back and tells me that there is a hell, I’ll take my chances and stay with the religion that started it all. Good luck Mrs. Gibson. God bless you, and get the kid.
The day I filed for divorce, I was still in love with my husband, and I remained in love for years afterward. I loved the man he had been, not the man he had become, and I kept thinking he would come around. Plus, I was convinced it was best for the chilldren.
The day I realized that the man I had known was no longer there, and the children were most definitely NOT better off, was the day I got an attorney. Once I realized how damaging his treatment of us was to our children, I could not, in good conscience, wait around until it felt right for me. It was years after that day before I could , honestly, look at myself in a mirror and say that I was no longer in love with him.
She had planned to get old with that man, she had planned to share the joys of grandchildren with him. And then, she realized it wasn’t going to happen. My heart goes out to her. OK, I left in a 10 year old Volkswagen with a two cats and three kids, and she’s walking away with millions. It still has to hurt like the hell the jerk is so obsessed with.