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Please Stop Picketing Tropic Thunder And Start Picketing Claire Danes's House

With all the media attention focused on Tropic Thunder's movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie send-up of Oscar-baiting actors portraying the mentally handicapped, Simple Jack, the fact of the matter is actual actors are doing this in the real world right now and it's miserable....  CONTINUE READING PLEASE STOP PICKETING TROPIC THUNDER AND START PICKETING CLAIRE DANES'S HOUSE»

Posted on August 15, 2008 in , (12 comments)
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Tropic Thunder's Simple Jack Website Went Bye-Bye

After disability advocate groups raised issues with Tropic Thunder's repeated use of the word "retard" and other offensive terms to describe a role played by Ben Stiller's character in the movie, DreamWorks has agreed to meet with them. It's almost...  CONTINUE READING TROPIC THUNDER'S SIMPLE JACK WEBSITE WENT BYE-BYE»

Posted on August 5, 2008 in (7 comments)
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