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Laura Bellizzi Confirms: Mel Gibson is NOT the Father!

Mel Gibson and Justin Bieber can exchange virtual fist-pounds now. Laura Bellizzi , the woman who labeled by various celeb news magazines as Gibson’s baby mama has broken her silence on it, and says it’s just not true. Calling the story one based on “erroneous reports” and “lies and speculation,” the former VH1 reality star says “Mel Gibson is not the father of my child.” Not a lot of wiggle room left in that denial. Laura Bellizzi, a mother and a businesswoman, reportedly dated Mel over the summer, and there are photos of them together . But there was no baby conceived. Any “alleged friends” telling gossip outlets that she’s been privately identifying Gibson as her baby daddy are “being 100% dishonest in a misguided,” she says. Laura lambasted their “efforts to seek 5 seconds of notoriety and fame.” Her rep says she’s “greatly dismayed at the rash of intrusive and irresponsible stories.” Not to worry. Like Mariah Yeater, who dropped her paternity suit against Bieber today, she may now return to total anonymity to raise the child … whoever the father is. [Photos: Pacific Coast News, WENN.com]

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Joely Richardson on Anonymous, Playing Elizabeth and the Trouble With Greenscreen

Sure, it’s a tough sell. But Anonymous has plenty going for it both behind the camera (director Roland Emmerich and screenwriter John Orloff posit the legitimacy of Shakespeare) and in front of it as well, where a sterling cast including Rhys Ifans , David Thewlis, Mark Rylance and the estimable mother-daughter combo of Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson — playing Queen Elizabeth I some 40 years apart — dig into the historical, political and romantic intrigues with relish.

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Jewish Groups Want Mel Gibson Yanked From Film

Two powerful organizations are far from pleased about recent news that Mel Gibson was cast in a movie about biblical Jewish hero Judah Maccabee. The Anti-Defamation League has demanded that the producers pull Gibson off the flick immediately, sending a statement directed at Warner Bros. Why are they fired up? Probably this incident , among others. “As a hero of the Jewish people and a universal hero in the struggle for religious liberty, Judah Maccabee deserves better,” the group said of Mel. “It would be a travesty to have the story of the Maccabees told by one who has no respect and sensitivity for other people’s religious views.” Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, also had some harsh words about Gibson’s role in the upcoming film. The Jewish leader tells TMZ that casting Mel Gibson as a Jewish hero is “like having a white supremacist portray Martin Luther King Jr.” For those unaware, Judah, the brave warrior who drove enemies of Judaism out of Jerusalem, is a central figure in the story of Hannukah. No comment yet from Mel’s camp or WB. [Photo: WENN.com]

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Jewish Hero Judah Maccabee Has New Screen Champion: Mel Gibson

This just in from sister site Deadline: Warner Bros. is developing a Joe Eszterhas-penned project about the tale of warrior-hero Judah Maccabee, who led a second-century revolt against Hellenistic overlords in the name of the Jewish people. The project’s producer and possible director? Mel Gibson .

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Mel Gibson Finally Breaks Silence

The Mel Gibson Comeback Tour begins in earnest on May 6 when The Beaver opens in limited release after months of delays and date changes. In the lead up to that moment, however, Gibson has broken his long-time silence for a lengthy and in-depth interview with Movieline sister site Deadline that covers everything from his legal troubles to The Beaver to whether he’ll act again to not being in The Hangover Part II .

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Mel Gibson Finally Breaks Silence

The Mel Gibson Comeback Tour begins in earnest on May 6 when The Beaver opens in limited release after months of delays and date changes. In the lead up to that moment, however, Gibson has broken his long-time silence for a lengthy and in-depth interview with Movieline sister site Deadline that covers everything from his legal troubles to The Beaver to whether he’ll act again to not being in The Hangover Part II .

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Kris Herzog to Release Tell-All Book, Reveal Secrets of Oksana Grigorieva & Mel Gibson

Kris Herzog, a.k.a. Kristian Otto Herzog, is preparing to release a tell-all book of scandalous details pertaining to Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson. Who would have guessed that his career as a bodyguard would end with a role in a shocking scandal, one of the biggest celebrity news stories ever. His official site proclaims that making love to Oksana, the sweet-talking liar who he calls The Sexual Sorceress, was the beginning of the end. Here’s how he got there, chapter by chapter … Chapter 1: Young Kristian Herzog grows up on Catalina Island. Chapter 2: Entering his dad’s celebrity bodyguard business. Chapter 3: Learning the ropes of that bodyguard business. Chapter 4: Working with Paris, Britney, Lindsay, Kim K., etc. Chapter 5: Working with Jack Nicholson, John McCain, etc. Chapter 6: A top 100 photo recap of 25 years in the business. Chapter 7: Meeting Oksana Grigorieva, a “Sexual Sorceress.” Chapter 8: Oksana “playing his instrument, like a cheap instrument.” Chapter 9:

Jodie Foster’s Next Directing Gig? A Sci-Fi Thriller

While Jodie Foster the actress has a rich and varied resume — horror! science fiction! childrens’ adventure! whatever Flightplan was! — but as a director, she’s stuck to smaller, family-based dramas, including SXSW’ s sweetheart, The Beaver . But speaking to the Los Angles Times , Foster says she’s ready to direct a sci-fi thriller. Promising that it’ll have her usual Fosteresque “family element” as well as plenty of “genre moments,” Foster is still chewing over the details of the script with an unnamed writer. And of course, she still has to finishing shooting Roman Polanski’s Carnage as well as Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 follow-up, Elysium before she can turn her eyes sci-fi-ward. But let’s just hope that her next leading man isn’t also an unrepentant racist, anti-Semitic, wife-beating raging homophobe . It’ll make the press junket a lot simpler, I would think. [ LAT ]

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Jodie Foster’s Next Directing Gig? A Sci-Fi Thriller

While Jodie Foster the actress has a rich and varied resume — horror! science fiction! childrens’ adventure! whatever Flightplan was! — but as a director, she’s stuck to smaller, family-based dramas, including SXSW’ s sweetheart, The Beaver . But speaking to the Los Angles Times , Foster says she’s ready to direct a sci-fi thriller. Promising that it’ll have her usual Fosteresque “family element” as well as plenty of “genre moments,” Foster is still chewing over the details of the script with an unnamed writer. And of course, she still has to finishing shooting Roman Polanski’s Carnage as well as Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 follow-up, Elysium before she can turn her eyes sci-fi-ward. But let’s just hope that her next leading man isn’t also an unrepentant racist, anti-Semitic, wife-beating raging homophobe . It’ll make the press junket a lot simpler, I would think. [ LAT ]

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Oksana Grigorieva to Sue Mel Gibson For All Kinds of Stuff; Probably Vice Versa

Despite Mel Gibson’s no contest plea to battery last week, Oksana Grigorieva plans to file a lawsuit alleging battery, emotional distress and defamation. Sources close to Gibson say he will wage legal war if Oksana does so. Forget settling out of court … it is ON like legal Donkey Kong this time around. The actor will “gladly” file his own lawsuit against the woman he says put a $15 million price on the Mel Gibson tapes in return for keeping quiet. It could be just beginning for Mel and Oksana … Oksana’s lawyer, Daniel Horowitz, said “our position hasn’t changed” regarding Mel’s no contest plea and her plans to sue for myriad damages. This looming lawsuit likely played a huge role in Mel’s no contest plea on misdemeanor battery charges, for which he will serve no jail time. Pleading no contest subjected him to similar sentencing as a plea of guilty, but there was no admission of guilt that will bolster her claims. Basically, he denied her account before, he’s likely to keep denying it now, and Daniel Horowitz and Blair Berk are going to bill a lot of hours. [Photo: Fame Pictures]

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