Agreed, of course. And I really have little interest in Richards and don’t really want to get back into Gibson…however…

That story JPod linked to reminds me of something else I recently heard Gibson say. I don’t subscribe to People, so it wasn’t until last week — watching Gibson talk to Diane Sawyer about his new movie — that I heard the bizarre Gibson-saved-Courtney-Love’s-life-with-cheeseburgers story. When Sawyer asked him about it, Gibson said something along the lines of: I had to help her because I never know when I’ll next need to be saved by somebody from some gutter. I can only imagine the Richards comment was out of some empathetic man-he’s-another-screwed-up-dude-and-the-whole-world-has-to-watch-him-meltdown-too sense. What he said about the gutter was sad in a pathetic kind of way on one hand — like even though he’s working on things, he has a sense of invevitablity about his next fall. But it’s also, in its way, something to encourage in people — a sense that we’re all in this, flawed and all, together.