A number of media outlets have reported about an interview with actress Winona Ryder, in which, among other things, she recalls how she was passed over for a movie role because the studio head thought she looked “too Jewish,” and Mel Gibson once asked her if she was an “oven dodger.”
For many, including the Times of Israel, it is no surprise which is most newsworthy – judging by their headlines.
Except it isn’t. This is not even news.
It was first reported in an interview in GQ in 2010; I even reported it back then.
But the news outlets are banking on the fact people were either not paying attention or forgot or are too young to have first seen it.
The Times of Israel even mentions this
The incident with Gibson, at a party in 1995, was first reported in an interview in GQ in 2010. Ryder said that when something came up in the conversation about Jews, the actor-director said, “You’re not an oven dodger, are you?” – a reference to the ovens that cremated the bodies of inmates in Nazi extermination camps. She added that Gibson later tried to apologize for the remark.
but still used it as their headline.
I think this says something about these news outlets and their desperation to get attention.
Speaking of Mel Gibson, his evil antisemitic father is now pushing up daisies, finally expiring at the age of 101.
