Having been a star for twenty-five years, Mel Gibson is now one of the biggest. Thankfully, he still works hard to produce good material and, perhaps better still, refuses to take his celebrity seriously. When voted The Sexiest Man Alive, for instance, he said "That implies there are a lot of dead guys who got more points than me". Perhaps it's due to Australia. His character was formed there, his career was launched there, and they know it, in 1997 making him an Officer of the Order of Australia, the highest award they could confer (well, they couldn't make him captain of the cricket team, could they?). So forget the Yank stuff, the guy's obviously a fair dinkum Aussie.
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