War May Be Hell, but Hollywood Is Even Worse

Despite what you may have read lately, the biggest target of ridiculein "Tropic Thunder," a flashy, nasty, on-and-off funny and assaultivesendup of the film industry, is not the mentally retarded. Rather, thetrue targets of this extreme comedy's free-flowing contempt are thestars, makers, brokers, miscellaneous supplicants and even die-hardfans of the movies, who are all portrayed as challenged in somefashion: intellectually, ethically, aesthetically, sartorially,chemically, longitudinally, you name it.