Well, us old timers here do remember a time when Mel was very popular way before his drunken-jew-hating tantrum or his drunken-girflriend-verbally-abusive-telephone tantrum. I mean, Lethal Weapon kicked ass in its time and his movies after that were mostly hits. I remember my first date with the love of my life when I took her to watch "Forever Young". So, yeah, all of a sudden ol' Mel became O.J. Simpson, a Hollywood pariah. Too bad. I mean, the man must be batshit crazy but he sure knows story structure!
So maybe he really wasn't acting and he was really one crazy son of a bitch