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'Tropic Thunder' angers disability groups
Published 8/11/2008 by By Carl DiOrio at Hollywood Reporter
Special Olympics chairman and CEO Timothy Shriver and other leaders of disabled advocacy groups have slammed the "use of the r-word" in the film "Tropic Thunder" to describe people with intellectual disabilities.
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