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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