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Despite the protesters the Tropic Thunder Los Angeles premiere didn’t seem to be affected in any way.

Stars still showed up, and quite a few at that, to lend their support for the Ben Stiller film that stars himself, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes made a surprise appearance and other stars who showed up included Matthew McConaughey (minus Levi), Alicia Silverstone, Jason Bateman, Jodie Foster and even Nick Nolte!

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Twenty-one disability groups are hot and bothered over Ben Stiller’s new film “Tropic Thunder,” after promotional posters for the film, and some of the dialog slam down the R bomb: retard.

“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 said. “[The joke is on] actors reaching for roles in terms of hopefully winning awards.”

When Stiller said that, I don’t think he entirely realized that the people he is talking to are mentally disabled. Unless he said this while tossing out apples, or included the words “rainbow” or “hugs time,” his message was never going to get through. I say give them a couple of tickets and let them laugh it off. Probably one of the first things they’re going to say as they’re walking out the theater is going to be “Jesus, what a bunch of retards.”

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Ben Stiller’s new movie starring himself, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. has offended some people with it’s repeated use of the word ‘retard’.

The movie is set to be released on Wednesday, but the premiere is tomorrow evening and Special Olympics chairman Timothy Shriver says that he and a group of people will be picketing the event.

Shriver, who has also worked in the film industry, (he co-produced the DreamWorks film, Amistad)says the movie is full of “hate speech”.

Chip Sullivan, a DreamWorks spokesman, did some clean-up work saying that the movie is “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.”

He adds that the intention of the film was not to offend, and that, “No changes or cuts to the film will be made.”

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The Heartbreak Kid LA Premiere at Mann Village Theater, Westwood, CA

Ben Stiller and super hottie wife Christine Taylor, Michelle Monaghan, the always smokin’ Stacy Keibler, Carlos Mencia looking dwarfed next to what I am assuming is his wife in terrible leggings, and a totally thrilled looking Cybil Shepherd.

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The Heartbreak Kid trailer: