Culture Buzz Disney's first film to feature an African-American princess has already caused a considerable amount of controversy. Disney, a company with a considerable legacy of racism, scrapped the original treatment which centered on a chambermaid named Maddy working for a spoiled Southern debutante criticism that the storyline reinforced negative stereotypes. The film will now be called The Princess and the Frog and the lead character will be a girl named Tiana living in New Orleans during the jazz age.
Movie Buzz Ben Stiller's new movie features Robert Downey Jr. as an actor who dyes his skin brown to play a black soldier in an epic Vietnam film. In Tropic Thunder (Stiller's first directorial endeavor since 2001's male modeling parody Zoolander), the filmmaker turns his satirical lens towards self-indulgent actors. Let the comparisons to Soul Man begin.
Movie Buzz A new book and movie are being released about Spreckles sugar heir, Clark Gable's stepson and champion surfer Bunker Spreckles. After inheriting 50 million dollars at 25, Bunker Spreckles became "the most decadent person in surfing". He hired a photographer to document his life as a jet-setting playboy, and by 27 he was dead.
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