Australia: slow on the uptake
Don’t they have snarky media blogs in Australia? The Australian, a newspaper owned by you-know-which-Australian-media-mogul, straight-facedly picked up an obvious piece of satire from Defamer about Mel Gibson’s recently-announced Holocaust-themed TV project:
Tentatively titled Flory, the telemovie will tell the true story of Flory Van Beek, a Dutch Jew who survived the Holocaust through the bravery of three Christian families who sheltered her from the Nazis in Holland.
Gibson’s Con Artist Productions reportedly clinched the deal with a breathtaking pitch for a climactic “Braveheart-style” battle scene where thousands of Jewish and Nazi combatants rush at each other across an open field.
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