Oscar bait Reader" (2008). In the film "Tropic Thunder" (2008), characters Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller) and Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey Jr.) discuss the concept regarding Speedman's former role in the fictional film "Simple Jack", in which Lazarus notes that "you never go full retard", contrasting the Oscar successes of Dustin Hoffman ("Rain Man", 1988) and Tom Hanks ("Forrest Gump", 1994) with Sean Penn's failure to win an award for his role in "I Am Sam" (2001). "Tropic Thunder" received protests from disability rights organisations due to its constant use of the word "retard"; Stiller defended the scene as being intended to lampoon
Jonathan Raymond 2008" lists, including those of the "Chicago Reader", "New York Post", "Newsweek", "The Austin Chronicle", "LA Weekly", "The Philadelphia Inquirer", the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", "Entertainment Weekly", "The New York Times", "The Oregonian", "Slate", "The Village Voice", and "The Christian Science Monitor". In 2012, Raymond also published a second novel, "Rain Dragon", which revolves around the character of Damon and his girlfriend Amy, who have had enough of Los Angeles and decide to leave the city to work on a community farm. Raymond has co-written, with the director Kelly Reichardt, the screenplays for two of her films based on his short stories: