The star of "Tropic Thunder" is nominated for his first Oscar in 16 years.
Some testing still goes on at what is now known as the Tropic Test Centre.
In junket interviews for the film, Stiller said that screening audiences definitely found "Tropic Thunder" funny.
This image, with this caption, was originally published in Vol. 3 No. 53 of Tropic Lightning News, December 30, 1968.
While it is winter in the southern hemisphere, Brazil is sandwiched between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Equator.
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The scene in question comes from the action movie spoof Tropic Thunder and involves the character played by Steve Coogan losing his head.
His summer was capped off by his Oscar-nominated work in Tropic Thunder playing a white actor playing a black actor in a war movie.
"Tropic Thunder, " which already has received praise from Newsweek's David Ansen and The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt, has also earned its share of knocks.
But, he said, "Tropic Thunder" is a long way from the days when white performers would don blackface as a way of exploiting black stereotypes.
If it succeeds in crossing the Atlantic, it will then try to circle the globe, following the Tropic of Cancer and landing on each continent.
Cruise made a similar move in the 2008 movie Tropic Thunder.
Advocacy groups have urged a boycott of "Tropic Thunder" because of the repeated use of the word "retard, " when Mr. Downey's character gives Tugg an acting tutorial.
He co-wrote "Tropic Thunder" based on an idea he had in 1987, when many of his friends were making war movies, he recalls in the film's production notes.
"Tropic Thunder, " which was co-written and directed by Mr. Stiller, is like a dinner whose hors d'oeuvres are far more satisfying and well-composed than the slightly warmed-over main course.
But the Tropic Test Centre plans to stay in Panama even if all the American troops go home: it would turn itself into a private-sector corporation, ready to do tests for whoever might hire it.
In "Tropic Thunder, " a comedy about self-absorbed Hollywood types making a "Platoon"-style war movie, Downey plays Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, a multiple Oscar-winning performer who gets so involved in his roles that he forgets to come out of them.
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