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Funny or offensive? Robert Downey Jr.'s controversial 'Tropic Thunder' performance turns 15.
Here's everything you need to know about the ongoing debate over Downey's use of blackface in the 2008 comedy.
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Tom Cruise yells at 'Mission: Impossible 7' crew members for breaking COVID-19 rules: 'If I see you do it again you’re f****** gone'
Cruise noted that the production is helping families buy food and send their kids to college.
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Hollywood's 'bottomless pit' of blackface: Why it has taken so long for white creators and comedians to apologize
With stars like Tina Fey, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon apologizing and shows like "Community," "The Golden Girls" and "Scrubs" deleting episodes featuring blackface, Hollywood is finally beginning to reckon with one of its most insidious comedic tropes.
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Stuart Cornfeld, Producer of ‘Tropic Thunder’ and ‘Zoolander,’ Dies at 67
Stuart Cornfeld, who worked with Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films to produce movies including "Tropic Thunder," "Dodgeball" and "Zoolander," has died of cancer. Several of his friends posted about his death on social media. At Red Hour, which he founded with Stiller in 1999, he also produced "Duplex" starring Stiller and Drew Barrymore, "Starsky & […]
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Robert Downey Jr. on 'Tropic Thunder': '90 percent of my black friends' thought it 'was great'
The 54-year-old actor talks about doing blackface in "Tropic Thunder" and admits, "My mother was horrified."
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'Tropic Thunder' star Ben Stiller supports Shaun White after his controversial Halloween costume inspired by the movie
The Olympic snowboarder sparked controversy over the weekend, when he dressed as Simple Jack, the disabled character portrayed by Ben Stiller's actor character in "Tropic Thunder."
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Shaun White faces backlash over 'Tropic Thunder' Halloween costume
Special Olympics released a statement criticizing Shaun White's "offensive" Halloween costume.
