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ONLY IN CANNES...
Published 5/12/2008 by Jason Guerrasio (noreply@blogger.com) at Filmmaker Magazine
... billboard of Robert Downey Jr. in blackface. The promotion is for the upcoming summer release Tropic Thunder , which also stars Jack Black and Ben Stiller (who co-wrote-directed) as a group of actors making the most expensive Vietnam War film and finding themselves in real combat. Downey Jr. plays super serious actor Kirk Lazarus who's been cast in the role of a black solider. Not enough? Tom Cruise has a cameo as a bald, foul-mouthed studio head. Image courtesey of Variety's The Circuit . ...

Robert Downey Jr in Cannes, in Blackface.
Published 5/13/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... Above: the construction of a giant Tropic Thunder ad outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, captured by Variety. More pictures of Hollywood’s billboard invasion of the resort town at the Circuit blog. ...

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