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		<title>&#8216;Retard&#8217; featured in upcoming R-rated film &#8216;Miss March&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;retard&#8221; has a prominent place in &#8220;Miss March,&#8221; says Chicago Tribune interviewer Robert K. Elder. The Fox Searchlight film, about a young man who wakes from a coma to find that his girlfriend has become a Playboy centerfold, opens Friday.
Here&#8217;s an excerpt of Elder&#8217;s interview with actor Craig Robinson.
An excerpt:
Q: In the script, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John C. McGinley on his favorite role: Max&#8217;s dad</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/12/18/john-c-mcginley-interview-6315/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actor John C. McGinley (Dr. Perry Cox on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Scrubs&#8221;) is featured in a cover article in Exceptional Parent. Topics of conversation: his life as dad to eleven-year-old Max, who has Down syndrome; what he thinks of those who make fun of people with disabilities, and the film &#8220;Tropic Thunder.&#8221; An excerpt:
&#8230; ["Tropic Thunder"] really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disability advocacy groups fight offensive language</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/16/offensive-language-3482/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karen Meyer on WLS-TV, Chicago (ABC affiliate), with video:
Correspondent Karen Meyer interviews people with disabilities and disability rights advocates who are offended by the use of the word &#8220;retard&#8221; in the film &#8220;Tropic Thunder.&#8221;
Meyer, who is deaf, speaks and signs simultaneously while the text of her words is spelled out across the screen in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Simple Jack&#8217; popular for Halloween, survey says</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/15/simple-jack-halloween-3470/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Fandango.com:
When some 3,000 filmgoers were asked to choose the top movie-inspired costumes for Halloween, Ben Stiller&#8217;s &#8220;Simple Jack&#8221; character from &#8220;Tropic Thunder&#8221; was listed as #9 in the men&#8217;s category. The character, referred to in the film as a &#8220;retard,&#8221; stirred controversy among disability rights advocates who said its depiction of people with intellectual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: &#8216;What&#8217;s missing in the R-word debate&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/09/01/whats-missing-r-word-3073/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Senator, writing in the Washington Post&#8217;s &#8220;On Faith&#8221; section, says there&#8217;s nothing wrong with being retarded. What&#8217;s wrong, she says, is the use of the word &#8220;retard&#8221; as an insult, designed to reduce a person to only one trait. Senator would like to help people appreciate the &#8220;loveliness and complexity&#8221; of people like her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Additional discussion of &#8216;Tropic Thunder&#8217; and the &#8216;R-word&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/30/additional-tropic-thunder-3052/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tropic Thunder&#8217;: Hollywood still doesn&#8217;t get it &#8212; Lawrence Carter-Long in disaboom.com
Hollywood can ill afford to dismiss the views of disabled advocates and their allies now. It didn&#8217;t have to be this way, but by failing to consider the nations &#8216;largest minority&#8217; Dreamworks created the controversy themselves.
Disrespecting the disabled belittles us all &#8212; Mary Yoder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer: Changes needed in Hollywood&#8217;s portrayal of disability</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/26/thunder-hollywood-critique-3025/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josie Byzek, writing in The Progressive, says she won&#8217;t be joining the boycott of &#8220;Tropic Thunder,&#8221; but she hopes the controversy will focus attention on &#8220;the real pain that slurs cause people with disabilities.&#8221; She&#8217;d like to see some films that portray people with disabilities as three dimensional people, as well as some with &#8220;disabled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: &#8216;Not just crass, a word that hurts&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/24/beckham-tropic-thunder-3012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/24/beckham-tropic-thunder-3012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beverly Beckham, writing in the Boston Globe about &#8220;Tropic Thunder,&#8221; says the movie is
the worst thing to come along for the developmentally disabled since public schools used the dunce cap to humiliate. Because in 107 minutes the word &#8220;retard&#8221; (or &#8220;retarded&#8221;) is said 17 times. This gives a green light to the movie-going public: If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: &#8216;Tropic Thunder sets back a movement&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/23/op-ed-tolleson-3007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the [UK] Guardian, David Tolleson says the movie &#8220;Tropic Thunder&#8221; sends the harmful message to millions of moviegoers that discrimination against people with disabilities is socially acceptable.
For a population that has been subject to millennia of discrimination and abuse, even to the point of death, it is a major setback, courtesy of Hollywood.
Unfortunately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Diverse voices on the &#8216;R-word&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/22/r-word-diverse-voices-3001/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/08/22/r-word-diverse-voices-3001/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no shortage of opinions today about the use of the word &#8220;retard.&#8221; California First Lady Maria Shriver urges people to stop using it. Actor Josh Perry, star of the popular &#8220;Retarded Policeman&#8221; videos on Youtube, and his brother, Scott Allen Perry, think the word has lost its power to offend. (Josh Perry has Down [...]]]></description>
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