'Tropic' premiere brings protest
Published 8/12/2008 at Variety.com
Film News: Disability advocates challenge Stiller film -- Several dozen disability advocates converged in front of Monday night's Westwood premiere of "Tropic Thunder" to protest the comedic use of the word retard.
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One of the characters in Ben Stiller's "Tropic Thunder" is an Australian actor who undergoes a deep-tissue pigmentation to become black. One is an overweight, drug-addled comic who seems to speak only in farts. Stiller and company have navigated ...Groups Call for Boycott of ‘Tropic Thunder’ Film
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Retarded : (Adjective) Characterized by being less advanced in mental, physical, or social development. A national boycott for the film Tropic Thunder , the "comedy" starring Jack Black, Ben Stiller, and a blackfaced Robert Downey Jr., is being ...Protesters find no humor in 'Tropic Thunder'
FilmDrunk.com found this 8/12/2008 on www.usatoday.com
Carrying placards that read "Tropic Thunder Colossal Blunder" ,"Ban the Movie, Ban the Word", "The R Word is Hate Speech" and "DreamWorks Mean Works", referring to the studio that released the film, the Los Angeles premiere drew a collection of people ...
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