Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas went on the Today Show this morning to discuss that nine-page letter he wrote Mel Gibson alleging Gibson’s anti-Semitism ultimately halted production of “The Maccabees,” and revealed that he had both tapes and witnesses to back up the allegations in the letter. But wait! There’s more. Sharing-your-snuff-fantasies-with-high-school-sophomores kinda more. Radar Online says:

The screenwriter said he and his family went on an excursion to Costa Rica with Gibson, who told Eszterhas’s 15-year-old son about a violent sexual fantasy he concocted starring his baby mama Oksana Grigorieva.

“To put that imagery in a 15-year-old boy’s head I think is heinous, I think it’s vile and I think it’s unforgivable,” Eszterhas said, adding he’s got a recording of the “threatening harangue” and is undecided over what to do with it.

Eszterhas said Gibson’s conduct “in Costa Rica was so bad, my son Nick grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen and slept with it under his bed, he was so frightened.”

Asked why he continued working with Gibson, Eszterhas said he did not bring his family around Gibson from that point on, but was obligated to live up to his contract to pen the script.

Mel of course claimed Eszterhas’ letter was all lies and Jew propaganda in a response letter he sent the press, but astute readers will note that he still apologizes for all those things he supposedly didn’t do. He said in the letter:

The great majority of the statements and actions attributed to me in your letter are utter fabrications.

I will acknowledge like most creative people I am passionate and intense. I was very frustrated that when you arrived at my home at the expense of both Warner Brothers and myself you hadn’t written a single word of a script… I did react more strongly than I should have.

I promptly sent you a written apology, the colorful words of which you apparently now find offensive. Let me now clearly apologize to you and your family in the simplest of terms.

Yes, Mel’s just “passionate” and “intense.” Just like how I’m “Ruebenesque” and “vivacious,” not “morbidly obese” and “manic.” It’s all in how you rephrase it.

It’s been quiet in the Mel Gibson camp for a while, so maybe the recent Christian holiday Easter has put new spark in the ol’ Jew-hating flames (‘cuz, you know, Jesus wasn’t Jewish or anything), because there’s suddenly a torrent of crazy coming from his camp. TMZ says,

Mel Gibson is sabotaging efforts to make a movie about Jewish biblical hero Judah Maccabee because he “hates Jews” … this according to the film’s screenwriter Joe Eszterhas.

Gibson and Eszterhas had been working on the project together … until Warner Bros. suddenly decided to pull the plug … and nobody seemed to know why.

But now, it’s crystal clear — there was a MAJOR rift between Gibson and Eszterhas … with Eszterhas firing off a harsh letter to Mel earlier this week … in which he says point blank, “I’ve come to the conclusion that the reason you won’t make ‘The Maccabees’ is the ugliest possible one. You hate Jews.”

The letter, obtained by TheWrap.com, reads, “You continually called Jews ‘Hebes’ and ‘oven-dodgers’ and ‘Jewboys.’ It seemed that most times when we discussed someone, you asked ‘He’s a Hebe, isn’t he?’ You said most ‘gatekeepers’ of American companies were ‘Hebes’ who ‘controlled their bosses.’”

Eszterhas adds, “You said the Holocaust was ‘mostly a lot of horses**t.’ You said the Torah made reference to the sacrifice of Christian babies and infants. When I told you that you were confusing the Torah with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, … you insisted ‘it’s in the Torah — it’s in there!’ (It isn’t).”

He says Mel only wanted to make “The Maccabees” so he could “convert the Jews to Christianity.”

In his letter, Eszterhas says he witnessed Mel rail about his ex-GF and baby mama Oksana Grigorieva … saying, “You were raving at Oksana even after you’d reached a custody agreement over Luci.”

“And then you were even more explicit about your threat: “I’m going to kill her! I’m going to have her killed!” You said you’d become friends with two FBI agents (or former FBI agents) and they were going to help you to kill her.”

Mel responded by saying that it was a pack of lies, and that the real issue was that the script sucked.

And then he finishes off by saying that John Lennon deserved to be shot, because he was a “fucking messianic”.

Seriously, someone needs to get that man some medication. And possibly a shotgun lollipop.  It’s so screwed up it’s not just regularly fucked up, it’s a goddamned fustercluck.

A few pictures of Scarlett Johansson at the premiere of “The Avengers” today in Hollywood, because my head is still hurting:

Several anonymous Transformers 2 crew members posted an open letter about Megan Fox on director Michael Bay’s official website — and they were, uh, less than complimentary, to say the least. The NY Daily News says

“We’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies,” read the letter, which was taken down from the site after being read by thousands of fans. “And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it’s very cringe-able.

Megan is the queen of… trailer trash and posing like a porn star… [and] a thankless, classless, graceless, unfriendly [bitch].”

Boy, that’s practically word-for-word the toast I used at my stepmom’s bridal shower. Except I closed with “And you’re not the fucking boss of me, Tina!” and slammed the door so hard a picture fell off the wall. I always like to aim for a strong finish.

At NY Fashion Week, plus bonus stills of her making out with Amanda Seyfried in Jennifer’s Body after the jump:

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