In one week's time, Mel Gibson's comeback movie _The Beaver,_ directed by his
longtime pal Jodie Foster, is set to premiere at Austin's South by Southwest
Film Festival. It is only the second major film that Gibson has starred in
since 2002 because of Hollywood's reluctance to hire him in major roles out of
fear that the public may not forgive his recent years of personal turmoil. But
that may all be behind him now no matter whether showbiz thinks he's a
scumbag. Prosecutors charged the actor-director today only with misdemeanor
battery, not the felony or jail time which some media outlets had predicted,
after more than an 8-month investigation into a verbal and physical fight he
had with his then Russian girlfriend at his Malibu home that included racist
and misogynist rantings. Gibson is supposed to appear in court later today and
accept a plea agreement to resolve the case. His attorney had said it was
Gibson's decision not to fight the charges he "willfully and unlawfully" used
force and violence against Oksana Grigorieva and not to pursue charges against
her for allegedly trying to extort him. As for his 2006 arrest for drunken
driving that included his now-infamous anti-Semitic ranting, that conviction
has been expunged from ...
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