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'Tropic Thunder' Braces For 'Retard' Backlash [Disabilities]

USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live found this 8/4/2008 on defamer.com

Several months ago, the red-band trailer for Tropic Thunder suggested that not only could Ben Stiller's Hollywood satire be summer's most surefire gutbuster, but also that its trailer-within-a-trailer — featuring Stiller as the developmentally disabled title character of the Oscar-bait drama Simple Jack — portended perhaps the best movie never made. (And look! It even has its own ...