At this rate, Mel Gibson is going to wish he's stayed in the Thunderdome. Tapes of his converations with ex girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva appear to be being drip-fed onto the internet. And they don't paint Mel in a good light.

In the tapes released so far, he's apparently threatened to burn down her house and gone on a racist rant by announcing she'll get raped by a "pack of n*ggers". He has denied hitting her, at least. And Whoopi Goldberg has defended Mel Gibson from accusations of racism. Our verdcit: stand by for more revelations ...