Jack Black sings the words of our Lord as only Jesus could do and reminds us that our nation was built on “separation of church and state.” Overturn Prop 8 and SAVE THE ECONOMY. Newly married gays will save the auto industry as they celebrate their love with a new car for their gay (used here in the old fashion happy, good times way) days in the country.

Ben Stiller and co-writer Etan Cohen speak out about Tropic Thunder’s “hate speech” against the intellectually disabled and the twenty-two disability groups that are protesting the movie.

“It’s sort of edgy territory, but we felt that as long as the focus was on the actors who were trying to do something to be taken seriously that’s going too far or wrong, that was where the humor would come from,” Stiller, 42, told MTV on Monday. “[The joke is on] actors reaching for roles in terms of hopefully winning awards.

“Some people have taken this as making fun of handicapped people, but we’re really trying to make fun of the actors who use this material as fodder for acclaim,” co-writer Etan Cohen told MTV. “The last thing you want is for people to think you’re making fun of the victims in this who are having their lives turned into fodder for people to win Oscar.”

Really it’s the disability groups that are making out like bandits since everyone is now talking about their cause, which will probably lead to a donations.  So let’s hear it for “once upon a retard” the line that launched a thousand posts on the R-word and some money in the bank for at least some disability groups.  Ah an insult can sometimes be the greatest compliment

So maybe using the tag line, “Once upon a time there was a retard,“ on mock promo posters wasn’t such a good idea.  Yes many found it funny and even more didn’t notice, but not Timothy P. Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, who is pushing for a boycott of the film and is gathering the troops to picket the movie’s premiere this evening in Hollywood.

The film’s repeated use of the word “retard” to refer to a character, Simple Jack, who is played by Mr. Stiller in a subplot about an actor who chases an Oscar by portraying a Forest Gump-like character is as bad as a white man in a pink Polo sweater draped around his shoulders dropping the N-word.

Mr. Shriver is incensed and he’s on the war path to protect the intellectually disabled by asking members of Congress for a resolution condemning what he called the movie’s “hate speech” and calling for stronger federal support.

“The most disappointing thing, the most incredible thing, is that nobody caught it,” said Mr. Shriver, who, as a co-producer of the DreamWorks film “Amistad,” is no stranger to the studio. He spoke of what he described as the studio’s and the filmmakers’ blatant disregard for the disabled even as they stepped carefully around other potentially offensive references, notably in a story line that has Robert Downey Jr. playing a white actor who changes his skin color to play a black soldier.

In a statement on Sunday, Chip Sullivan, a DreamWorks spokesman, said the movie was “an R-rated comedy that satirizes Hollywood and its excesses and makes its point by featuring inappropriate and over-the-top characters in ridiculous situations.” Mr. Sullivan, in the statement, added that the film was not meant to disparage or harm people with disabilities and that DreamWorks expected to work closely with disability groups in the future. But, he said, “No changes or cuts to the film will be made.”  - NYTimes

That’s right! Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black have combined forces for the new action comedy, Tropic Thunder.  The new international trailer has surfaced on the film’s official UK site. Check it out!