The Hollywood blacklist returns. The New York Times reported on Thursday that the heads of several major studios would avoid working with Mel Gibson in the future because of his controversial movie, The Passion of the Christ. The piece reported that Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen of Dreamworks, neither of whom has seen the film, are angry about it nonetheless. "I won't hire him," the chairman of a major studio anonynously told the Times. "I won't support anything he's part of."

Hollywood can tolerate Victor Salva, a convicted child molestor, Roman Polanski, the predatory paramour of a (barely) teenage girl, and Woody Allen, who dates a woman who for all purposes viewed the talented actor/director/writer as her father. What many in Hollywood can't seem to tolerate is an outspoken Christian, even one who has won Academy Awards and has been among Tinseltown's biggest box-office draws for more than two decades. "Open-minded" Hollywood has to draw the line somewhere, I suppose.