Protesters make noise over "Thunder"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Protesters, light-emitting diode by Special Olympics chairperson and CEO Timothy Shriver, marched outside the public premiere of the Hollywood satire "Tropic Thunder" on Monday night.

Chanting and waving placards that read "Ban the pic, ban the word" and "Call me by my name, not my pronounce," several xII people tried and true to get the message across that the logos "retard" and making sport of the mentally challenged is not comedy material.

In "Thunder," Ben Stiller's fictional character is an actor wHO previously attempted to go for Oscar gold by playing a character called "Simple Jack." "Thunder" features the movie-within-a-movie's trailer, and Stiller is forced to re-enact scenes from the movie when he is captured by Asian do drugs lords.

DreamWorks and Paramount were well-prepared for the protest at the Westwood pic theater: The normally open red carpet was shielded by walls of 10-foot-high shrubs, thusly preventing the protesters from even being in the background of television shots.

/Hollywood Reporter

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Swing Vote - movie review

Swing Vote arrives during one election cycle merely heavily references another, spinning
the hanging chad outrage of the 2000 presidential race into a formulaic feel-empowered
comedy for today's huddled masses.



Bud (Kevin Costner) and Molly Johnson (gifted newcomer Madeline Carroll) take for granted Hollywood's
schoolbook father-daughter duet: she's the pint-sized "adult" of the trailer they call
home, and he's the whiney child. On the eve of a tight presidential race, a mix-up at
the polls negates Bud's ballot, which doesn't sound like a big deal until it's determined
that the election will come down to a exposure finish distinct by one vote -- Bud's.
If you think that's regular remotely possible, by all means, read on. As Bud gets a crash
course in democracy from smarty-pants Molly, incumbent prexy Andrew Boone (Kelsey
Grammer) and left-leaning White House hopeful Donald Greenleaf derive on Texico,
New Mexico with glad-handlers in towage in hopes of winning the slob's valuable supp
ort.



When I tell you Swing Vote hammers us all over the straits with its message, I couldn't be more
literal. Costner's Bud stumbles out of a bar in one particular scene and clunks his
skull on a star sign that reads "Vote today!" The fact that the same mansion remains