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surgery to play a black soldier. MARK HUMPHREY/AP While this sounds tasteless and 6>>3>;4½1>H)Co-host Buck Owen offensive, a couple of factors make performs in a 1986 “Hee Haw” taping. it work. First, of course, there’s Downey himself, who’s intelligent enough to bring nuanced bravado ‘Hee Haw’ and even some surprising sympa- thy to the role. (He also delivers the MERIE WEISMILLER WALLACE/PARAMOUNT PICTURES VIA AP film’s funniest and most insightful Returns B70<4;4BB;HB;44E4;4BB) “Tropic Thunder” gives Ben Stiller, left, and his cast mates an excuse to show off their guns. speech about the strategy it takes to play mentally impaired characters.) And considering Downey’s propen- sity for digging deep for his roles, To Homes including his Oscar-nominated per- formance in “Chaplin,” it’s a cute, >[SR^\TShePaXTch Day of ‘Thunder’ sly in-joke to have him poke fun at himself in this regard. bW^fXbaTcda]X]Vc^ The screenplay from Stiller, cWTcdQT]Tgc\^]cW BcX[[TabdRRTbbUd[[h certainly his most ambitious pro- ble cast of the Vietnam War epic Justin Theroux and Ethan Cohen duction as a director, and it contains “Tropic Thunder.” The film may be doesn’t have anything particularly 2><4102:BkReruns of the old corn- Q[T]SbPRcX^]P]S some of the biggest belly laughs of his last shot at redemption. When original to say about the insanity pone comedy-variety show “Hee his career. But while it blends com- Tugg and his equally pampered of Hollywood excess, but the film Haw” are coming back. R^\TShX]]TfUX[\ edy and action sequences far more cast mates turn out to be too dis- makes its points mostly in a lively The one-hour programs will F0Ak“Tropic Thunder,” Ben Stiller’s skillfully than “Pineapple Express,” tracted to commit to the produc- way. That is, until the explosions and air at 8 p.m. Eastern time each extravaganza of a Hollywood sat- the endeavor winds up feeling over- tion, and costs start spiraling out knowingly over-the-top moments of Sunday beginning Sept. 7 on ire, couldn’t be any more “inside- wrought and repetitive. of control, the overwhelmed first- violence grow redundant. Having cable’s RFD-TV, which bills itself baseball” if it contained referenc- Stiller produced, co-wrote the time director (Steve Coogan) leads said that, make sure you arrive at as “rural America’s most impor- es to the infield fly rule and Rule script and stars as Tugg Speedman, them into the jungle to bond and the theater on time. The fake trail- tant network.” 5 draft picks. an increasingly irrelevant action fend for themselves. But what they ers at the start might be the best “Hee Haw” was on the air some- This movie-within-a-movie is hero who now leads the ensem- think is a carefully crafted exercise part. 27A8BCH;4<8A40? where for 28 years — first on CBS for two years starting in 1969, then in first-run syndication for two decades. Reruns aired on the old Nashville Network cable station Stiller’s Spoof: A Joke Too Far? from 1994 to 1997 and briefly on CMT in 2006. Country performers Roy Clark and Buck Owens were street from the film’s Los Angeles Following the original com- co-hosts, Clark for the entire run 6a^d_baT_aTbT]cX]V premiere at Mann’s Bruin Theatre plaints from the advocacy groups, and Owens for 17 seasons. \T]cP[[hSXbPQ[TS on Monday. The protesters held up DreamWorks pulled some promo- The show, which got its name signs with slogans such as “Call me tional materials, including a Web from the sound of a donkey braying, bTTZ¼Ca^_XR½Q^hR^cc by my name, not by my label” and site that promoted the film-within- originated as a country version of 2>=CA>E4ABHk“Tropic Thunder” chanted phrases such as “Ban the a-film starring Stiller’s character “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.” is pushing the envelope too far movie, ban the word.” that contained the tag line “Once RFD, based in Omaha, Neb., for groups representing the men- The groups are outraged over there was a retard.” with production facilities in tally disabled. Dozens of peo- scenes featuring the liberal use of a Special Olympics chairman Nashville, has been on the air since ple from organizations such as disparaging term used to describe Timothy Shriver calls for a film December 2000 and is available the Special Olympics and the the mentally disabled. In the movie, boycott. “This population struggles in 35 million homes. Its program-

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you!” Nimoy’s mom protested. Writing the book was a way to “Since the beginning, people 0SP\=X\^hSTcPX[b “No, Ma, I know. But that’s what pull himself out of the depressing have been coming up to Dad from ¼BcPaCaTZ½b½TUUTRc people want to hear.” hole his life had become. Not nec- every direction wanting something. ^]WXb[XUTP]SUPcWTa From his first meeting with a essarily finding himself — that ... Naturally, Dad had to be very prospective agent, Nimoy had to obnoxious baby-boomer phrase — guarded when dealing with these 0=C8<4<>8Ak“I’m going to write hold on tight to the book he wanted but asserting his identity, separate types of situations and oftentimes about the dark times,” Adam to write. Agents wanted the dirt on from his father, from the marriage, he forgot to let his guard down when Nimoy explained to his mother growing up with “Star Trek” tele- from drugs. relating to me.”

when he began working on “My vision actor Leonard Nimoy, who In 1975, Nimoy’s father, Leonard, Nimoy describes how, for years, TIMES ANGELES CHAVEZ/LOS ROBINSON MICHAEL Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable played Mr. Spock. then 44, published his own book he would “take my old man out of Adam Nimoy writes about life with his Life.” Nimoy wanted to write about his about the fight for identity titled the closet in my mind and give him kids, daughter Maddy and son Jonah. “Like when you and Dad were recovery from 30 years of addiction “I Am Not Spock.” a good thrashing for all the hateful out of town on some ‘Star Trek’ to marijuana and alcohol, about In “My Incredibly Wonderful, things he has said and done through “I’ve never had much luck press junket and I was strung out the crash and burn of his 18-year Miserable Life,” Nimoy writes the years.” arguing with him. Have you ever on the floor of that men’s room marriage, about raising two teen- about the consuming nature of It has taken decades, he writes, argued with a pop-culture icon?” downtown ...” age children and, yes, about find- his father’s work, the many hours to stop resenting his father, mostly BDB0=B0;C4AA4H=>;3B;>B0=64;4B “That ... that never happened to ing someone to love. and the fans. by working on his own. C8<4B

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