In this wonderful article about Robert Downey Jr.'s road back to supreme success, David Carr writes about an inside joke about Burger King and Mr. Downey's (and Tony Stark's) life-changing moment:"On or around Independence Day in 2003, he stopped at a Burger King on the Pacific Coast Highway and threw all his drugs in the ocean. And while he was sitting there chewing on a burger, he decided he was done. This being America, five years later you can walk into that Burger King, and if you order a Kids Meal you can get your own Robert Downey Jr. action figure, wrapped up in gadget ware. (And what does Tony Stark want when he escapes his kidnappers? A good old American cheeseburger -- from Burger King, natch.)"
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