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'Madness' steals 'Tropic's' thunder

 

Published 8/29/2008 at Variety.com

Weekly Music and Technology: Paramount releases mockumentary on iTunes -- Move over, Eleanor Coppola. "Tropic Thunder" helmer Ben Stiller and the marketers at Paramount are looking to one-up Coppola's classic doc "Hearts of Darkness" -- which chronicled the making of husband Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" -- with a descent into madness of their own. (link)

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