Gibson snubbed at film festival

A photograph of Hollywood actor Mel Gibson was left out of a celebrity exhibition at the Toronto International Film Festival because of the actors outburst against Jews in Malibu last month.

The black and white photograph of Gibson was to hang alongside other celebrity pictures at Toronto's trendy Bloor Street Roots clothing store.

Photographs of Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman made it into the exhibition of work by well-known Canadian celebrity photographer George Pimentel.

Other celebrities featured in the display include Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Dustin Hoffman, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts and Quentin Tarantino.

"We're not fans (of Mel Gibson)," Roots co-founder Don Green told Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper.

"We think what he did was totally inappropriate."

Gibson, an American who was raised and trained as an actor in Australia, made headlines around the world after unleashing an anti-Jewish tirade when arrested for drunken driving after a night at Malibu's Moonshadows bar on July 28.

The actor later pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour drunken driving charge in a plea deal in the United States, receiving a three year probationary sentence.

"He doesn't represent the goodness of Hollywood," said Green of Gibson.

"Sometimes you have to take a stand."

Meanwhile, Hollywood actor Brad Pitt was at the Toronto Film Festival with his film, Babel, and took an opportunity to make fun of Gibson.

While pulling a funny face for photographers, Pitt joked, "That's the picture that's going to end up when I have a breakdown or something, when I get arrested for a DUI late at night, make racial slurs or something".