Entertainment Weekly: Listening to the rage and ugliness and incipient boiling violence of Mel Gibson's eight-minute-long over-the-phone rant at his former girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that was made public yesterday, I had a reaction that, I suspect, mirrored that of many others. I was horrified - and I was mesmerized. I cringed, sometimes visibly, at everything he was saying; I also hung on every hideous, seething, bottled-up, paranoid, vengeful word. The sheer drama of the tape is staggering - for eight minutes, it just about stops time. It's likely that there has never been a public breakdown this awful and spectacular by a modern celebrity.