And what list would be complete with Mad Max, the 51-year-old actor increasingly beginning to emphasise the first part of that sobriquet?

The Passion Of The Christ made him one of Hollywood's most powerful men. The drunken arrest in Malibu turned him into its laughing stock.

The filmmaker, hit with various accusations -- anti-Semitism, homophobia, anglophobia, racism and alcohol abuse -- has tried hard to move on, making the Oscar-nominated Apocalypto.

Then again, at an Apocalypto press conference a lady professor challenged Gibson, probing into his research, claiming depictions of the Mayans as bloodthirsty and given to sacrifices were inaccurate and racist.

Gibson, ever a gent, asked her to leave, using a loud voice and tossing in a four-letter word in the bargain. Classic.

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