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"Mickey Rourke has defended his friend Mel Gibson amid reports that Gibson has made anti-Semitic remarks. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas claimed in his nine-page letter that Gibson used racist, offensive and sexist language, even threatening to kill ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.   Both Eszterhas and Gibson worked on the script to The Maccabees, about a Jewish revolt, until the project fell through. &amp;quot;Everybody is looking to make Mel look bad,&amp;quot; Rourke told TMZ. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s an easy f**king target.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We live in a town that&amp;#039;s built on envy. What do you expect?&amp;quot; he added. Rourke was last seen in 2011&amp;#039;s Immortals, but he is set to appear as a terrorist on the thriller Java Heat. Watch the trailer for Immortals below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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