Good for Him

No matter what you got out of Mel Gibson's The Passion, it's great to see him doing something good with some of the money that the film earned him.

Mel Gibson is sharing his box-office bonanza from "The Passion of The Christ" with the sick children of the world. The filmmaker just donated $5 million to L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and another $5 million to Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA.

The money is earmarked for pediatric patients from countries where they can't find, or afford, suitable medical care. Gibson has been working behind the scenes with the Healing the Children project.

A source close to the charity confirms that Gibson donated more than $1.5 million to bankroll the 23-hour surgery in 2002 for conjoined twins Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Quiej Alvarez at the UCLA medical center.

Here's to Mel and the good that he does.

Here's the link. The story (reproduced in its tiny, gosip-column glory in full) is a little ways down the page.

Posted by zombyboy at October 13, 2004 11:22 AM