I'm also convinced this won't kill his film career. But it will further isolate him in Hollywood than he already is.

He personally bankrolled his last two films (Passion and Apocalypto), some believe because his increasingly public religious preaching and posturing made him impossible to work with, unless you were perceived by the Mad Mel to be his ideological twin.

His production company, Icon Films, dumped the Bush whacking Michael Moore movie, after being pressured by the Bush White House to do so (which is how/why Harvey Weinstein became involved in the distribution wars over it, just before walking out on Disney).

Now, there are a lot of conservative, John Wayne/Ronald Reagan Republicans in Hollywood. Even radical leftist Tim Robbins is as disparaging of Hollywood liberal Democrats like Babs, et al when he says:

"Hollywood is full of closet Republicans, and also you're sometimes not sure who your friends are. When the whole Bull Durham (1988) controversy happened there were three people who came very vociferously to our support, all either very conservative Democrats or Republicans - Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner and Jack Valenti. And how many liberals? I didn't see any. So I am not one that makes a judgment on someone because they are Republican. I know enough Republicans that are decent people, they love their families, we might have differences of opinion but we can find common ground."

That doesn't seem to be the case w/Mad Mel. You are either a Mad Mel True Believer, or you don't work for him.

I think this is a case where Mad Mel has isolated himself, and sees himself as something of a romanticized tormented Hamlet thespian (remember, he bankrolled himself in that one too). That he is delusional, I have no doubt. Mentally ill, probably, more than an alcoholic.

The man obviously is sick and perverted, but because he feeds off the Hollywood machine that created him, he just can't see the forest for the trees (much less the speedometer for the tequila bottles) at this point. He totally lost the plot, IMO, somewhere during his "Braveheart" phase. Living proof of a man who actually believes he is the characters he portrays, and his own publicity machine.

I don't think you will see too many big name stars (directors, writers, or actors) lining up to work in a Mel Gibson film any time soon. Sure, he has box office clout, but that may not be enough to save the perv from himself.

But there isn't much you can do with mentally ill people like him, when they are surrounded by people making money hand over fist off them. Which is the case here. If ever there were a need for someone to intervene and have someone committed, it would be here. But his family and handlers are more likely to just slap him into rehab, and hope he doesn't build anymore Malibu churches in the image of Mad Mel.