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Contents 1 Citations 2 Unsourced material 3 Outrage? 4 Kirk Lazarus != Robert Downey, Jr 5 Tom Cruise Reverts

[edit] Citations

• Tony Horkins. "Exclusive: Stiller Talks Tropic Thunder", Empire, 2008-03-13. 
• Michael Fleming. "Cohen stays atop Hill", Variety, 2003-11-18. 
• Michael Fleming; Nicole Laporte. "D'works stacks Stiller", Variety, 2004-12-08. 
• Nicole Laporte. "DreamWorks taps production exec", Variety, 2005-01-18. 
• Cathy Dunkley; Nicole Laporte. "On the Olympic team", Variety, 2005-01-31. 

Wildroot (talk) 20:44, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

• Stiller: ‘Tropic Thunder’ Will Be A Funny ‘Apocalypse Now’
• Tom Cruise’s fat-suit fracas
• Tom Cruise's 'Tropic Thunder' Fat-Suit Photo Leaks Online, Spoils His 'Secret' Cameo
• Hey, that ad-lib wasn't in the script!
• Jack Black Breaks Out the Peroxide and Clippers for Tropic Thunder
• Officials say Hollywood spent $200 million on TV, movie projects in Hawaii
• Exclusive: Stiller Talks Tropic Thunder
• Interview: Ben Stiller on Making Tropic Thunder
• Tom Cruise, in Bit Role, Nips Studio’s Top Gun (subscription only)
• 'Tropic Thunder' Multitasker Ben Stiller Can't Discuss Tom Cruise's Cameo, But He Did Reveal Jack Black's Water-Buffalo Baby
• If the suit fits...
• First Look: 'Tropic Thunder'
• Stiller to battle jungle, baddies in `Tropic Thunder'
• Robert Downey Jr. is ready to play the hero in 'Iron Man'

Headlines; apologies if there are any redundancies. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 17:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced material

We need to start seeing some citations for all of the statements made w/o sources. I'll give it one or two weeks and then I will begin removing information. Thanks. will381796 (talk) 00:18, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Outrage?

The main article says that some people have expressed outrage over Downey Jr.'s role in the film, but the article that it uses as a source doesn't say anything about people being outraged. Am I missing something, or was that just a dummy reference put in to justify having an unsubstantiated claim in the article?Tracer Bullet (talk) 08:14, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I noticed that before reading your message, and as the reference didn't say anything about any "outrage", I removed the claim - it (rather lazily) asserts the role is controversial without saying why, or showing any evidence of any outrage. Neıl ☎ 11:36, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Kirk Lazarus != Robert Downey, Jr

Robert Downey, Jr.'s role was originally written for a black actor, but was re-cast and re-written for Downey (thus calling for the blackface part of the plotline).

Is this correct? My understanding from the cited sources is that Robert Downey, Jr is *playing a character*, Kirk Lazarus, of whom this is true. In the movie, the character Sgt. Osiris (in the move within this movie) was originally written for a black actor and is being played, in stead, by Kirk Lazarus. Kirk Lazarus is played by Robert Downey Jr.

I would have made the change to the article, but suppose both of these could be true. In this case, the above excerpt needs a cite.Originalname37 (talk) 15:17, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Cruise Reverts

To whoever keeps trying to take out the section on the Tom Cruise controversy, please stop. It isn't Wikipedia's job to keep spoilers from people. Rather, it's to compile notable facts. People read these pages with the risk of spoilers in mind, and this is no different. Thanks. Rwiggum (^Talk/_Contrib) 17:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)