Dozens demo at film's Westwood premiere
Protesters, led by Special Olympics chairman and CEO Timothy Shriver, marched outside the Westwood premiere of DreamWorks' "Tropic Thunder" on Monday night.
Chanting and waving placards that read "Ban the movie, ban the word of honor" and "Call me by my name, not my label," several dozen hoi polloi tried to get the message across that the word "retard" and devising fun of the mentally challenged is not comedy material.
In "Thunder," Ben Stiller's character is an player who antecedently attempted to go for Oscar amber by playing a lineament called "Simple Jack." "Thunder" features the movie-within-a-movie's trailer, and Stiller is forced to reenact scenes from the flick when he is captured by Asian drug lords.
DreamWorks and Paramount were well-prepared for the protest: The unremarkably open marxist carpet was shielded by walls of 10-foot-high shrubs, thus preventing the protesters from even being in the background of telly shots.
The just the ticket will call, normally located just outside the California Pizza Kitchen restaurant, was moved to the side of a parking deal and saved by a temporary wall.
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