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Original at Denver Post
• Thu, Aug 28
CO - When "Kung Fu Panda," starring the voice of Jack Black as Po, isn't delighting us with CGI visions and lush 2D animation, it's treating characters with ...
Razzi Snap: Jack Black Drops Smoking For Green Tea
Original at Ecorazzi
• Thu, Aug 28
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By michael Tropic Thunder star Jack Black has revealed that he has finally dropped his smoking habit — favor of something a bit more green. “I don’t do anything exciting or dangerous really,” he said. “I quit smoking, that was my last real vice. ...
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Hilary Duff’s Dad To Spend 10 Days In Texas Jail
Original at Access Hollywood
• Thu, Aug 28
- Robert Downey Jr. is almost unrecognizable in Ben Stiller’s new comedy, “Tropic Thunder.” Find out what Ben Stiller and Jack Black thought of his varied ...
Celebrity Birthdays, August 28 (via Star Pulse)
Original at Fafarazzi.com
• Thu, Aug 28
Happy Birthday to country singer LeAnn Rimes (1982), "King Kong" actor Jack Black (1969), "90210" star Jason Priestley (1969), Scottish actor Billy Boyd (1968), Canadian country singer Shania Twain (1965),[...] Read more! ...
D&T Movie Review: Tropic Thunder
Original at DnT SOULutions
• Wed, Aug 27
By Den Jack Black Robert Downey Jr. (surprisingly had the funniest character in the movie) Nick Nolte Tom Cruise ? Matthew McConaughey ? Plot: movie was actually filmed in Hawaii…so a lot of good scenes. Overall, if you’re craving some comedy ...
Good cast, songs, but ‘Rocker’ creaks
Original at Akron Leader Publications
• Wed, Aug 27
OH - But as Jack Black and his young chargers sang in the superior “School of Rock,” it’sa long way to the top if you want to rock ’n’ roll. ...
Jack Black And His Son Out And About
Original at Daily Stab
• Wed, Aug 27
• 1 related articles
By Kelly Funnyman Jack Black and son Samuel Black were spotted leaving Beverly Hills Park yesterday. There wasn’t any pictures of the little guys face, but he sure does look like a cutie! His latest movie, Tropic Thunder, is doing great. ...
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Jack Black and Baby Samuel Lost Their Shoes
Original at www.gabbybabble.celebuzz.com
• Wed, Aug 27
By gdaysunshine August 27th, 2008 Jack Black and Baby Samuel Lost Their Shoes Funny actor Jack Black and his son Samuel were spotted leaving Beverly Hills Park yesterday walking barefoot. Maybe they both lost their shoes while busy playing at the park. It’s not like he can’t afford some sandals or flip-flo...
Nicollette Sheridan & Michael Bolton End Engagement
Original at Access Hollywood
• Wed, Aug 27
• 8 related articles
Nicollette Sheridan & Michael Bolton End Engagement - Robert Downey Jr. is almost unrecognizable in Ben Stiller’s new comedy, “Tropic Thunder.” Find out what Ben Stiller and Jack Black thought of his varied ...
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REVIEW: Reading Festival
Original at Festival Fever
• Tue, Aug 26
By Seatwave Tenacious D Jack Black and Kyle Gass hit Sunday night’s crowd with just the right amount of humour and Rock. The duo stood beneath a mock Metallica logo and played up to the masses with a set featuring lizard costumes, Satan, ...
Tropic Thunder is a scream....
Original at Fandango.com
• Tue, Aug 26
By gunteriv This movie is too funny! Irreverant, silly, goofy, and a surprise. Tom Cruise rocks! And Jack Black almost made me spill my popcorn. If you...Read More. Read All Reviews Write a Review.
REVIEW: Neil Duncan at the Reading Festival
Original at basingstokegazette.co.uk
• Tue, Aug 26
UK - My ignorance of mainstream music was underlined by the fact I was unaware that Jack Black was actually a rock star in Tenacious D. I found this out when ...
The Rocker
Original at Tucson Weekly
• Mon, Aug 25
AZ - This shameless School of Rock rip-off pales in comparison, primarily because Rainn Wilson is no Jack Black. Black is a pudgy ball of energy with infectious ...
Common Sense Movie Reviews: Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Original at Common Sense Movie Reviews
• Mon, Aug 25
By TheAnswerMVP2001 Thursday, August 14, 2008 Be Kind Rewind (2008) From the previews, Be Kind Rewind looked to be another hilarious hit for Jack Black. The concept was different, the plot was unique and it appeared to have promise by putting an interesting comedic spin on cinema classics without stepping do...
Movie Review - The Rocker
Original at ourtribune.com
• Mon, Aug 25
TX - Aug 25, 2008 “The Rocker,” starring Rainn Wilson as Robert “Fish” Fishman, is simply a revamped version of the 2003 film “School of Rock” starring Jack Black. ...
Review: Tropic Thunder (2008)
Original at Pelicula, for your benefit.
• Sat, Aug 23
By C. ORlean Then you have your main actors; Ben Stiller (doing Ben Stiller), Jack Black (doing Jack Black) and Robert Downey Jr., who goes above and beyond as an over-the-top method actor (I don't need to explain this, do I? ...
Film3 review: Tropic Thunder and Earth
Original at 3 News NZ
• Fri, Aug 22
New Zealand - Aug 22, 2008 Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr fans get to enjoy a fix of all three at once with new R-rated comedy Tropic Thunder hitting cinemas. ... Controversial jokes, actors disappoint in 'Thunder' Baylor University The Lariat Online all 6 news articles
Leeds 2008 review: Tenacious D
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Fri, Aug 22
UK - And Tenacious D live or die on whether you think Jack Black is a daring comedy maverick or a fat jock. We're with the second camp, but the festival crowd ...
Review: 'The Rocker'
Original at Christian Science Monitor
• Fri, Aug 22
MA - Aug 22, 2008 With "The Rocker," Rainn Wilson joins the select company of Jack Black in "School of Rock." He plays Robert "Fish" Fishman, a beaten-down insurance company ...
LA Hospital Answers Suit By Ed McMahon
Original at Access Hollywood
• Fri, Aug 22
• 8 related articles
- Robert Downey Jr. is almost unrecognizable in Ben Stiller’s new comedy, “Tropic Thunder.” Find out what Ben Stiller and Jack Black thought of his varied ...
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Movie Review: War is hell but ‘Tropic Thunder’ is a hoot
Original at Kingsport Times News
• Fri, Aug 22
TN - Aug 22, 2008 And then there is Jack Black’s character, Jeff Portnoy. Portnoy is a throwback to the large comedic actors who hide vicious drug problems. ...
Review: 'Tropic Thunder' pokes fun at Hollywood
Original at Springfield Business Journal
• Fri, Aug 22
Jim Wunderle reviews the R-rated movie "Tropic Thunder," strarring Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Danny McBride, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise.
New Movies Podcast: 'Rocker,' 'House Bunny' and 'The Wackness'
Original at The Ann Arbor News
• Fri, Aug 22
MI - You probably know him as Dwignt from TV's "The Office," but Rainn Wilson apes Jack Black with shades of Will Ferrell in "The Rocker," a comedy about a ...
Movie Review: 'Tropic Thunder' - Conway Daily Sun
Original at Conway Daily Sun
• Fri, Aug 22
• 1 related articles
Movie Review: 'Tropic Thunder' subscription), NH - Aug 22, 2008 Jack Black is Jeff Portney, the heroin addicted star of a series of films called “The Fatties.” Robert Downey Jr. is Kirk Lazarus as Australian method actor ...
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Jerry Seinfeld’s Hard Sell for Microsoft
Original at Access Hollywood
• Thu, Aug 21
• 8 related articles
- Robert Downey Jr. is almost unrecognizable in Ben Stiller’s new comedy, “Tropic Thunder.” Find out what Ben Stiller and Jack Black thought of his varied ...
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Tropic Thunder - Movie Review
Original at Blogger News Network
• Thu, Aug 21
- Aug 21, 2008 Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey JR., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson each deliver perfect comedic performances. I liken it to seasoned musicians ...
MOVIE REVIEW - Smart, funny 'Tropic Thunder' points a finger at ...
Original at Valley Breeze
• Thu, Aug 21
RI - Aug 21, 2008 Stiller stars along with fellow actors Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. as wayward, has-been movie stars in the midst of filming the story of Vietnam ...
Be Kind Rewind review finally… My blogs been SWEDED!!!
Original at fatlace.com
• Wed, Aug 20
By jarod My wife and I watched Be Kind Rewind tonight, I love it.. Great spirit and attitude, Mos Def is so solid, Jack Black plays his “Jack Black” kind of roll but honestly, I LOVED IT!!!! Watch it, enjoy it and don’t think about anything ...
Tropic Thunder
Original at Chico News & Review
• Wed, Aug 20
Chico News & Review, CA - Aug 20, 2008 Robert Downey Jr., Ben Stiller and Jack Black play actors on the set in the jungles of Vietnam. They share much of the screen time, but even with Downey Jr. ...
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black
Original at Fairfaxtimes.com
• Tue, Aug 19
Controversy notwithstanding, “Tropic Thunder” will make you laugh. You may cringe from time to time, but it will still make you laugh. ... Movie Review: Tropic Thunder /FILM ‘Tropic Thunder’ Lawrence Ledger Glasgow Daily Record - Los Angeles Times
Movie Review: Tropic Thunder
Original at /FILM
• Tue, Aug 19
• 1 related articles
MA - Aug 19, 2008 Pre-screening Example of Anticipation: “If Jack Black is skewering Eddie Murphy for making The Nutty Professor and Norbit, and his character is to be a ...
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Queens Of The Stone Age, Tenacious D, And Matt Cameron Cover Cream
Original at stereogum
• Tue, Aug 19
Jack Black took a break from terrorizing red carpets with silliness and blanket Tropic Thunder promotion to join Queens Of The Stone Age the other night, at LA's Music Box at Henry Fonda Theatre, in memory of cancer victim and QOTSA ...
Tropic Thunder Theatrical Review
Original at FlickDirect
• Mon, Aug 18
FL - Aug 18, 2008 Along side him are the rest of the "star studs" for the star-studded cast (notably Jack Black playing the fat-guy, Nick Nolte playing the real Vietnam vet, ...
Review: Tropic Thunder
Original at Dose.ca
• Mon, Aug 18
Filling out the supporting cast is Jack Black, who truly stretches his acting reach as Jeff Portnoy, a celebrity who's crafted a career from screen ... Downey owns Tropic Thunder Tuscaloosa News (subscription) Movie review - "Tropic Thunder" University News (subscription)
More Katie Sightings
Original at StyleCritics
• Mon, Aug 18
By Mean Critic Source] Even though he may have had only a small part to play in Tropic Thunder, actor Tom Cruise still commanded the most attention on the red carpet for the film’s recent Los Angeles premiere. Cruise, whose part in the movie was that of studio exec Les Grossman, stuck close by his wife Katie...
Alternate Takes 08.16.08: Tropic Thunder
Original at 411mania.com
• Fri, Aug 15
TX - Aug 15, 2008 Jack Black, who would make a name for himself with overblown musical performances as the lead man for Tenacious D, gives one of the best low key comic ...
Friday Night Walkout: Tropic Thunder
Original at Daily Kos
• Fri, Aug 15
By paradox Glad to be out and about on a Friday night just like the young 'uns for once we went to see Tropic Thunder with Morton Downey Jr., Jack Black and Ben Stiller. In the first ten minutes the move tried to dramatize a soldier getting his ...
Jack Black Saw London, He Saw France [A Call To The Bullpen]
Original at Defamer
• Thu, Aug 14
By Douglas Reinhardt Boomp3.com Tropic Thunder star Jack Black appeared to have a mysterious rip/tear in his pants as he was leaving the BET Studios last night. Black received many weird and confused looks from both BET...
Jack Black fears Obama will pull the plug on his benefit show
Original at In Case You Didn't Know
• Thu, Aug 14
By Roberta Black admits he and Tenacious D bandmate Kyle Gass don’t have a very good track record when it comes to supporting high-profile political figures. He tells WENN, “We’re going to do an Obama benefit on the 23rd of September at the ...
Before They Get Stale: Jack Black, Mike Myers and Woody Allen
Original at Comedy Central Insider
• Wed, Aug 13
By gonzalo cordova Colbert Christmas special in the works. God bless us, everyone (but especially Stephen Colbert). [TV Shows on DVD] Jack Black poses like a God. [Best Week Ever] Focus on the Family guy prays it rains on Obama. Aren’t there better things to pray for, like world peace or free X-boxes for all? [Vid...
Ben Stiller And Jack Black Draw Clear Line Between Movie ...
Original at Fafarazzi.com
• Wed, Aug 13
Fafa points for: Jack Black, Tom Cruise, Ben Stiller. With Tropic Thunder —the product of Ben Stiller's harrowing journey into the heart of retarded darkness— storming multiplexes today, the film's stars are going into promotiona. ...
'Thunder' Premiere Showdown Pits Megastars Against Disabled Who Obviously Don't Get The Joke
Original at Defamer
• Tue, Aug 12
By Seth It will be the A-listers, of course, who have the last laugh should Thunder succeed in doing what so many other couldn't, and toppling The Dark Knight at this weekend's box office—a movie, ironically enough, heralded by watchdog groups as an "exemplary instance of the disabled as being f...
'Tropic Thunder' Braces For 'Retard' Backlash
Original at Defamer
• Mon, Aug 4
By STV Several months ago, the red-band trailer for Tropic Thunder suggested that not only could Ben Stiller's Hollywood satire be summer's most surefire gutbuster, but also that its trailer-within-a-trailer — featuring Stiller as the developmentally disabled title character of the Osc...
Satan’s Alley Website Live
Original at The Movie Blog
• Mon, Jul 28
By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Holy crap this was a wicked idea. As many of you know I had a chance this past Wednesday to see a screening of “Tropic Thunder”. You can see my review here. Anyway, one of the funniest parts of the movie (and there are LOTS of funny parts) is right at the beginning where they show fake trailers for mo...
Tropic Thunder Review
Original at The Movie Blog
• Thu, Jul 24
By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) Thanks for checking out our Tropic Thunder review. As many of you know we’re currently down here at Comic Con in San Diego and we were lucky enough to get treated to a screening of Tropic Thunder tonight. I used to LOVE Ben Stiller. Zoolander, Dodgeball, Meet The Parents and several others. But [......
Coke, H, and Acid Don't Really Compare To $10 Mil-A-Picture, Observes Jack Black
Original at Defamer
• Fri, Jul 11
By Seth Fans of comedy superstar Jack Black were gifted this summer with an embarrassment of cinematic riches featuring the rotund, hyperactive manchild. First came DreamWorks's family-friendly Kung Fu Panda, with Black voicing that film's ursine journeyman. But for those who prefer a black...
The School of Rock Watch Movie Online
Original at Watch Videos Online
• Sat, Nov 17
By Dev Hudson The School of Rock (2003) Watch the Full Movie Online. Plot Outline: A wannabe rock star in need of cash poses as a substitute teacher at a prep school, and tries to turn his class into a rock band. Cast: Jack Black, Joan Cusack, ...
Nacho Libre Watch Movie Online
Original at Watch Videos Online
• Fri, Nov 16
By Dev Hudson Nacho Libre (2006) Watch the Full Movie Online. Plot Outline: Berated all his life by those around him, a Friar (Black) follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a “Luchador” (wrestler). Cast: Jack Black, Hector Jimenez, ...
Soundstage: Jack Black, Mos Def, Notorious B.I.G., Ice Cube on the Big Screen
Original at Rolling Stone
• Wed, Aug 15
By Lesley Savage There’s already been pretty terrific buzz about Tenacious D funnyman Jack Black and rapper turned serious actor Mos Def’s December film Be Kind Rewind. Imagined by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (and many a White Stripes video) director Michel Gondry, the pair portray two video-...
MTV Movie Awards: The Results!
Original at Cinematical
• Mon, Jun 4
By Scott Weinberg Best Kiss -- Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (over Marlon Wayans and Brittany Daniel in Little Man, Mark Wahlberg and Elizabeth Banks in Invincible, Columbus Short and Meagan Good in Stomp the Yard and Cameron Diaz and Jude Law in The Holid...