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Disability advocacy groups protest at 'Tropic Thunder' premiere
hollywoodinsider.ew.com - 8/12/2008
Disability advocacy groups protest at 'Tropic Thunder' premiere
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A few dozen demonstrators showed up outside the Tropic Thunder premiere last night at Mann's Theatre in Los Angeles to protest the movie and its repeated use of the word "retard." The protest took place across the street from the...

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“Tropic Thunder” Movie Protests By Mentally Disabled Groups (Photos)
Stupid Celebrities Gossip — ... movie where I laughed, but it seems to me that the movie tried really hard to go too far and then pull back on everything that was offensive except the issue of people with intellectual disabilities. I just think Ben Stiller and the people involved in this movie just didn’t think it was going to be offensive.” Tropic Thunder sounds really funny, don’t you guys think? Images: TT/WENN Source: news Copyright 2008 Stupidcelebrities.net If you are seeing this content on ...

Russell Brand's VMA hosting gig: Career suicide or star-making turn?
PopWatch — ... during his opening monologue and throughout last night's show. In particular, he urged Americans to vote for Barack Obama and called George W. Bush a "retarded cowboy" who, in the U.K., wouldn't be trusted with even a pair of scissors. (Doesn't he know that you can't say " retarded " in this country anymore?) The anti-Brand complaint seems to be: You have no right to come over here from Limeyland to tell us how to vote or to mock our president -- that's our job. Then again, many commenters thought Brand was hilarious and spoke truth to power. Brand also courted controversy by ...

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