Procrastinet

Jesus, That's a Poor Choice of Words

filed under: Stuff to laugh at

The New York Times has an article today (reg. req'd) which breathlessly reports that Mel Gibson is making a holocaust miniseries for ABC (they admit, grudgingly, that it's not known whether he's all that involved personally, but his company is maybe kind going to be working on it).

Down at the bottom, we get an unfortunate quote from ABC's Senior VP for TV Movies, Quinn Taylor. Mr. Taylor shows us what happens when you live so immersed in entertainment speak that you forget words have *actual* meanings:

"If it happens to be produced by Mel's company, it doesn't mean he's going to be out there flogging it like he did 'Passion of the Christ,' " Mr. Taylor said.

I can only hope that David M. Halbfinger, by-lined on the piece, got a good chuckle as he wrote that down...

Posted by rjt at December 7, 2005 10:44 AM