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Bigotry and the box office: Will audiences forgive Mel Gibson?

By ROBERT W. BUTLER

A colleague says he'd really like to see Apocalypto when it opens Friday on 2,000 screens. But he's not going to. 

"Not after what Mel Gibson did," he said, referring to the actor/director's drunken anti-Semitic meltdown in July. "I'm not going to reward him." 

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