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Today's Poll: What do you think of Mel Gibson?

By Howard B. Owens
C. M. Barons

Where does the manufactured hype end and reality begin? We've been immersed in celebrity dirty laundry; my question is why? As demonstrated by the 2007 Britney Spears trash campaign, there are gains to bottoming-out tabloid style. Is this what it takes to resuscitate a waning box-office? Frankly, Mel was more convincing in Mad Max. Perhaps George Miller might be called in to direct the next Mel-Oksana tape. Better yet- let's discuss something of relevance.

Jul 16, 2010, 12:22pm Permalink
kevin kretschmer

If you say so.

"Forensic audio and video experts examined the recordings for HollywoodLife.com and believe someone tampered with them, editing the audio, removing parts of conversation and piecing together phrases to make the recordings sound real.

“One of the things that you have to know is that nobody at this point can authenticate it’s Mel’s voice — not 100 percent,” Bonnie Fuller, editor of HollywoodLife.com, said on “Good Morning America” today. “There are words that are edited out, there are spaces, there are gaps.”

“I believe these are professionally done. I think she had help,” said forensic audio expert Arlo West. “She clearly was speaking into what we call a large diaphragm microphone. Her voice is very well engineered. She sounds great.”

Jul 16, 2010, 1:49pm Permalink
Howard B. Owens

They also say early on that it's probably Mel's voice. And the "not 100 percent" is a hedge, because they know it's probably Mel's voice.

Also, if her intention was to record this, it would be quite easy to use a service like Skype and get a professional quality recording on one end, and you can hook up any of the best equipment to a laptop computer, and still have the other caller, especially if on a mobile phone, not sound as good.

Jul 16, 2010, 3:26pm Permalink

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