Why Mel Gibson's Movie Career May Revive After Today's Misdemeanor Plea (Deadline Hollywood)

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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