Just because some of the thought police who run Hollywood studios want to destroy Mel Gibson's career doesn't mean other big cheeses in Tinseltown aren't dazzled by the director-writer-producer-actor's golden touch with "The Passion of the Christ."
"Gibson was mobbed by glad-handers" at the pre-Oscars party thrown by his agent, Ed Limato, the New York Daily News' Rush & Malloy column reported today.
Glad-handers included Sidney Poitier, Sylvester Stallone and outspoken Bush-hating leftists Susan Sarandon and Elton John.
"One effusive well-wisher confided later that he hadn't actually seen Gibson's movie. But he found its grosses - $117.5 million in the first five days - nothing short of miraculous," the column noted.
Al Franken was left out in the cold. He wanted to approach the star and make what is even for him an inane comment - "Your father and my father probably wouldn't have gotten along" - but he said he dummied up when he couldn't get through the mob of Gibson fans.
The mystery is why Franken was even at an Oscars party. His last major movie role was in the 1995 disaster "Stuart Saves His Family," one of the worst of the countless knock-offs from "Saturday Night Live." It committed the ultimate Tinseltown sin: Beyond being terrible, it had terrible box office.
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