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  Sorry, Ben Stiller Won’t Be Editing Donald Trump Out of Zoolander source: (vulture.com) July 12, 2020 Halle Kiefer writes:  " Ben Stiller has heard your cry (or, at least, somebody’s cry) to edit Donald Trump from his hit 2001 comedy. He hears it and he is going to go ahead and let you down easy: It’s not happening. “I’ve had people reach out to me and say, you should edit Donald Trump out of Zoolander,” the actor told the Daily Beast’s podcast The New Abnormal recently. “But at the end of the day, that was a time when that exists, and that happened.” For those of you who haven’t seen Zoolander in a hot minute, Trump’s split-second cameo is one of numerous celebrity appearances praising the incomprehensibly dumb, genetically gifted titular protagonist. “Without Derek Zoolander, male modeling wouldn’t be what it is today,” the current president of the United States declares. “There were so many movies that had ...

Robert Downey Jr. on ‘Tropic Thunder’ blackface: ‘90 percent of my black friends were like, “Dude, that was great” ’ source: ( thewashingtonpost ) January 22, 2020 Allyson Chiu writes: When Robert Downey Jr. first got the call about possibly starring in “ Tropic Thunder ,” the 2008 Hollywood parody helmed by actor-director Ben Stiller, the “Iron Man” lead was conflicted. Downey was slated to play the character of Kirk Lazarus, a five-time Oscar-winning Australian actor who undergoes “pigmentation alteration” surgery to portray a black soldier in the satirical film-within-a-film, and the job carried a major risk: wearing blackface makeup. I thought: ‘Yeah, I’ll do that. I’ll do that after ‘Iron Man,’ ” Downey, 54, said during a recent appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, recalling his conversation with Stiller. “And then I started thinking, ‘This is a terrible idea.’ ” Downey’s hesitation was brief. “I thought: ‘Hold on, dude. Get real here. Where is your heart?...