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Thunder Sparks Protest From Disabled
Published 8/11/2008 at Celebrity Fix
Not everyone is hot for Tropic Thunder.A coalition of prominent groups that advocate for the disabled are calling for a nationwide boycott of Ben Stiller's Tinseltown spoof, saying a subplot unfairly takes potshots at the mentally impaired.
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