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A couple of links to follow up on tonight - we went and saw Thank You For Smoking at MIFF. Fabulous satirical movie - I laughed, a hell of a lot. Before the movie, we got the 16 minute short In God We Trust by the same filmmakers. That link goes to an online version of it - it's extremely funny stuff.

Atom Films also has 2 other shorts by Jason Reitman (who adapted Christopher Buckley's book, and also directed TYFS):
Consent (6 minutes) (or see it on Youtube) and gulp.

Consent is hilarious.

Hopefully TYFS will get a wider release here - it certain deserves it. It makes me want to go and find some of Christopher Buckley's books.

A proper review of TYFS (and Friday Night's "Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic") to follow later.

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TMZ has four pages of the original report prepared by the arresting officer in the case, L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy James Mee. According to the report, [Mel] Gibson became agitated after he was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway and told he was to be detained for drunk driving Friday morning in Malibu. The actor began swearing uncontrollably. Gibson repeatedly said, “My life is f****d.”

Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, “You mother f****r. I’m going to f*** you.” The report also says “Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he ‘owns Malibu’ and will spend all of his money to ‘get even’ with me.”

The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: “F*****g Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” Gibson then asked the deputy, “Are you a Jew?“

The deputy became alarmed as Gibson’s tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed the camera and then said, “What the f*** do you think you’re doing?”

A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, “What do you think you’re looking at, sugar tits?”

via Pandagon (and many, many other people)