Rest assured, Mel Gibson's career isn't over

But even as battered and broken as his exquisitely tortured Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ,” Gibson will rise again…

Is any famous individual’s career ever truly over? No one is done; “done” is just another way of saying the comeback hasn’t started yet.

Tiger Woods is back on the tour. Charlie Sheen got a raise. Eliot Spitzer is getting a show on CNN. The list goes on, and what’s more, the duration from disgrace to saving face seems to be shrinking…

If Gibson’s camp can frame his story as the plight of addiction, then comes forgiveness, or more likely, forgetting. As bad as things look now for Gibson, in time his misdeeds will fade into the rich tapestry of misbehavior woven by the pantheon of American celebrities. Given the frequency with which celebrity scandal is reported, you cannot underestimate how numb the public is to all of this.