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'Tropic Thunder' Braces For 'Retard' Backlash [Disabilities]
Published 8/4/2008 by STV at Defamer
... or "full junkie" (with Jack Black), it would be an even more protest-worthy clusterfuck of pulled punches and missed opportunities. We'd hate it, and those 14.3 million Americans (and their families) would still face much worse every few years come Oscar season. They still may, of course, but we have faith that once the "full retard" is out of the bottle, it's gone for good. Let the healing begin. 'Once upon a time … There was a retard’ [Patricia E. Bauer via NYT] ...

‘Tropic Thunder’ Abandoning ‘Simple Jack’?
Published 8/5/2008 at Vulture
... "pretend to listen … to get an idea of the arguments that they will have to get their PR department to respond to"? Surprisingly, DreamWorks already seems to be acting, since as of this morning, the once-elaborate spoof promotional Website for Simple Jack has totally disappeared. ‘Tropic Thunder’ update [Patricia E. Bauer] Tropic Thunder: ‘Once upon a time … There was a retard’ [Patricia E. Bauer via NYT] Simple Jack [Google cache] ...

DreamWorks Goes 'No Retard,' Yanks 'Simple Jack' Site [Disabilities]
Published 8/5/2008 by STV at Defamer
... Well, that was fast: Mere days after first drawing attention on a disability issues blog (and eventually going under magnifying glasses at the NY Times and ...