2005-12-18 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- At first glance, "The Ringer" would seem to trample every tenet of taste: Actor Johnny Knoxville poses as a mentally disabled athlete so he can win the ...

Johnny Knoxville of “Jackass” fame is the star. “The Ringer” sounds like a politically incorrect disaster — but the Special Olympics couldn’t be happier.

"We're not making fun of it at all," Knoxville said. "The Special Olympics are behind it 100 percent and have been since the beginning. All the mean stuff happens to me.

News; Features ‘Ringer’ uses care to offend Fri., Dec. 23, 2005 To pay off a debt, Steve, played by Johnny Knoxville, poses as a contestant in Special Olympics, hoping to dethrone the reigning ...

In the first half-hour of the Special Olympics comedy “The Ringer,” star Johnny Knoxville shakes his head and says, “This is wrong. This is so wrong.” He’s right. Even… ...

This article was updated at 1:30 p.m. PT on July 30, 2003. Fox Searchlight has gotten to the starting line on “The Ringer,” a Barry Blaustein-directed comedy that will star Johnny Knoxville as ...

Zap2it.com LOS ANGELES – For many people, the idea of a movie about a normal guy pretending to be intellectually challenged in order to fix the Special Olympics might sound like a bad joke. It ...

The popular 2005 Farrelly Brothers comedy starred Johnny Knoxville as Steve, a man pretending to be an intellectually disabled athlete to help his lowlife uncle fix the Special Olympics and pay ...

LOS ANGELES – The filmmaking Farrellys, known for their gleeful bad taste in irreverent comedies such as "There's Something About Mary," are taking on the Special Olympics. Johnny Knoxville of ...

Audiences will laugh, perhaps nervously, guiltily: Studying up his " 'tard" behavior by watching "Forrest Gump," Knoxville becomes "Jeffy," sporting red gym shorts pulled way too high.