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		<title>&#8216;Alcoholic&#8217; Mel apologises for Jewish insults</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson has fought alcoholism all his adult life, he admitted today.
The 50-year-old Catholic revealed he was an alcoholic during a lengthy apology for &#8220;despicable&#8221; anti-Semitic remarks made when he was arrested for drink driving.
In a long statement saying sorry for the way he spoke to deputies when he was arrested, he said: &#8220;I disgraced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mel Gibson gives cops hell</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES - A blitzed Mel Gibson launched into an obscenity-laced tirade when he was busted on suspicion of drunken driving early yesterday, threatening an officer and making anti-Semitic and sexually abusive remarks, according to a police report.
The &#8220;Passion of the Christ&#8221; director repeatedly said, &#8220;My life is f&#8212;-d,&#8221; according to the report by Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Passion&#8217; Sells 4.1M Copies in One Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2004 16:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES - The second coming of Mel Gibson&#8217;s biblical epic &#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221; sold 4.1 million DVD copies by Wednesday after only one day in stores.
While the figure from distributor Fox Home Entertainment is high, it&#8217;s not quite a record breaker.

The Passion of the Christ
Overview
R-rated for Violence
The making of&#8230;
Anti-Semitism?
Traditionalist CatholicsmRabbi Daniel Lapin: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passion won few converts, survey finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson&#8217;s The Passion of The Christ created controversy and took in $370 million at the U.S. box office, but a new poll suggests that it did not have a spiritual impact on most people who saw it.
One in six people, or 16 percent, said the film affected their religious beliefs, according to a telephone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passion of the Christ raises questions among Buddhist audiences</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 03:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bangkok (AsiaNews/Ucan) – The Passion of the Christ has left viewers stunned and questioning the religious meaning of Christ’s violent death since the blockbuster film directed by Mel Gibson was released April 29th in the overwhelmingly Buddhist country.
More than 90 percent of Thailand’s population are Buddhist. Very few have read the Bible. The long episodes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Passion&#8217; puts some believers on the outside</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Velma Dority managed to tune out the chatter on religious radio stations calling on all Christians to see &#8220;The Passion of the Christ.&#8221; She ignored her virtuous friends who bragged about seeing the film countless times.
But when Dority&#8217;s five sisters told her she must see &#8220;The Passion&#8221; &#8212; that watching Jesus suffer would make her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Passion&#8217; &#8212; and its controversy &#8212; lives on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson&#8217;s The Passion of the Christ is still getting a lot of attention. It&#8217;s breaking box office records at home and abroad, still sparking controversy, and some folks say it&#8217;s even triggering a few miracles.
This week, it barged ahead of Jurassic Park with a gross of $361.5 million, making it the seventh-highest-grossing movie in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passion back at top of US box office</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Passion of the Christ has become the eighth bestselling movie in US history after an Easter weekend in which it routed a host of new movies at the box office.
The film reclaimed the top spot in the film charts, taking $17.1m in three days from Good Friday.
In total it has made $354.8m in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oman approves screening Gibson&#8217;s &#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUSCAT (AFP) - Mel Gibson&#8217;s controversial film &#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221; is to make its debut in Oman, the marketing manager of the Oman Arab Cinema Co. said.
&#8220;The censorship board has already given a go-ahead and we are all set to show the blockbuster at our Shatti Al-Plaza&#8221; cinema complex on April 14, Natasha [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Catholic Bishops Blast Gibson&#8217;s &#8216;Passion&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS (Reuters) - French Roman Catholic bishops have officially denounced Mel Gibson&#8217;s controversial film &#8220;The Passion of the Christ,&#8221; which opened in France on Wednesday, as potentially anti-Semitic and a distortion of Christian teaching.
In an unusual statement on a commercial film, the bishops&#8217; conference said the traditionalist Catholic Gibson had made a film that might [...]]]></description>
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