7:40AM STV | Well, that was fast: Mere days after first drawing attention on a disability issues blog (and eventually going under magnifying glasses at the
NY Times and
here at Defamer HQ), DreamWorks’s mock Web site for Simple Jack is
gone. The site had been part of the studio’s complex interweaving of Tropic Thunder tie-ins, with its “Once upon a time… there was a retard” tagline tipping the story of a disabled farmhand whom Ben Stiller’s character portrays in pursuit of an Oscar. But activist Patricia Bauer’s vigil continued, culminating late Monday with a handy
restitution checklist for Stiller, DreamWorks and their distribution partners at Paramount:
