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Posted Oct. 25, 2007,
Jack Black's Bloody Arm On the Set of Ben Stiller's New Movie Tropic Thunder (Not Co-Starring Owen Wilson)
By Ann Magnuson
Since the winds have died down and firefighters seem to be gaining an edge on the catastrophic wildfires (at least in L.A. County), we can now return to our regularly scheduled programming here in the Land of Make Believe. The photo above is about as much as I was allowed to photograph while visiting the set of Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller's war-movie-parody-blockbuster for Summer 2008 . Most of the film was shot on the island of Kauai where we went on vacation this past July. It is also the Hawaiian island where many celebs frolic and Mr. Stiller has a second home. He told us the island often conjured up images of Vietnam which inspired the script (co-written by the talented Justin Theroux and Ethan Cohen who helped pen Mike Judge's genius movie Idiocracy).