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On November 2, the results of a national, Mazda-commissioned Yankelovich
survey of twentysomething year-olds, who were asked to name America's most
Out-Of-The-Box male
and female celebrities in each of six categories were announced. Those
named most OOTB by survey respondents include: Movies: Jim
Carrey (36% of respondents voted him most
OOTB), who finished slightly ahead of Robin Williams (30%) in the male
movie actor category. (Reuters/Variety November
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Jim Carrey and Henry
Kissinger were spotted at the L.A. eatery
Spago with friends, including Milos Forman. According to Kissinger's spokeswoman,
the former Secretary of State "has always admired Carrey's work and wanted
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At the beginning of October, under a veil of secrecy,
UTA, the United Talent Agency, officially
switched its status from agency to management firm. Jim
Carrey, who is UTA's biggest client, was understood
to have called his young agent, Nick Stevens, about the shift. "Don't worry
about it," Stevens told him. "Will the credits on my next project read,
'A Nick Stevens Film'?" Carrey asked, half-seriously. "I'll never be a
credit grabber, even as your new producer," the agent-cum-manager replied.
UTA's decision to become a management firm came at a time of rising tensions
between agents and managers. A growing number of agents have been defecting
to enter the management business. A prime lure, of course, is the chance
to become more entrepreneurial by producing clients' projects and ultimately
selling a stake in their firms to networks or other multinational corporations.
The sharpest reaction to the UTA decision emanated from those managers
whose clients are represented by the agency. The Gold-Miller Co. represents
Jim Carrey, who suddenly now has an abundance of managers and no agent.
"We refuse to be alarmist about the situation," said a spokesman for the
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The on-again off-again relationship between Jim
Carrey and Lauren
Holly is officially off. Lauren Holly says
she will always love Jim Carrey, but that their romance is finished. Holly,
who filed for divorce in 1997, told the New York Daily News not to make
too much of her several appearances with Carrey during the summer. She
says she accompanied him to the premiere of The Truman Show as a "show
of support." She also denies there was anything going on with actor-director
Ed Burns, who she describes as one of her many male friends. For the record,
Holly's boyfriend is Todd Gustawas, who runs Matthew Conaughey's movie
company, the News says. A friend of Carrey said in Hollywood: "Lauren refused
to give up the glitzy nightlife and also wanted to start a family right
away - but Jim said no." |
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At the beginning of July, Jim Carrey
and Australian Pop Princess Kylie Minogue
were sharing a Friday night dinner for two at a candle lit table in the
Little Door restaurant, Los Angeles. There's no harm in two celebrities
discussing their trade in a swanky LA eatery, you may say. But to the astonishment
of fellow diners, Jim started discussing his relationship with former wife
Lauren Holly loud and very unflattering with tones. In fact, Jim's confessions
to Kylie were so candid they've raised rumours that the actress only walked
down the aisle with him the first time to further her movie career, Jim
described her as an obsessive net worker."It's terrible being in love with
someone who's constantly working the room," he told Kylie. "I can't go
to a dinner party or a restaurant without Lauren going around networking.
She never allowed us to enjoy each other's company. She's too busy being
a social astronaut." An NW reporter who happened to be sitting at the table
next to Jim & Kylie couldn't believe his ears: "He was talking so loudly
and unkindly about Lauren, the woman he's supposed to love." English actress
Amanda Donohoe, who co-starred with Carrey in Liar Liar, introduced the
comic to Kylie at the end of June. They immediately formed a strong liaison,
and at the Little Door dinner a tanned an mini skirted Kylie was an attentive
listener. They were talking ot each other like they were old friends, said
one ears dropping diner. "Jim looked very relaxed with his new long hair.
She was asking him about Hollywood and his movies. She said she really
wants to try and make it as an actress. He said he'd do everything he could
to help her - and that she would make a great comedienne."
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The tiny Gulf Coast community of Cedar Key, Florida, is about to be overrun
with Hollywood types, including Jim Carrey.
Carrey and crew have picked Cedar Key to film The
Incredible Mr. Limpet, the remake of a 1964
movie in which Don Knotts played a bookish man who dreams of life under
the sea. Scouts from Warner Bros. studios were looking for a fishing village
that could be seen from the water, said Judith Hagin, film commissioner
for Ocala and Marion County. The village's forests were once a major provider
of cedar for pencils in the mid-1800s, and it still is home to some fishermen.
Lately, the town 50 miles southeast of Gainesville has become home to an
artist community. "They were quite taken with the fact that it had never
been seen on film before," Ms. Hagin said. Carrey and his supporting cast
will spend a month filming in Cedar Key early next year. |
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A documentary on the making of the album In
My Life premieres on cable's Bravo channel
9 p.m. Nov. 12. The documentary reveals that Martin remains a calm, lordly
presence in the studio, able to ride herd over Williams and Carrey
without bruising egos or stifling creativity. The hour-long special documentary
covers concepts, conversations and a bit of carrying on; it's a low-key
Sir George shaping these performances, appearing carefree yet setting clear
mandates for his chosen artists. With: George Martin, Jim Carrey, Phil
Collins, Celine Dion, Goldie Hawn, Bobby McFerrin, John Williams, Robin
Williams. Filmed in England by Buena Vista Intl. Television. Producer-director,
Alan Benson; camera, Peter Bartlett, Francis De Groote, Gary L. Watson;
editor, Stephen Singleton; sound, Paul Vigars, Fred Vogler, Wayne Bell,
Leigh Crisp. 60 MIN. |
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Lauren Hutton
hosts a six part series, Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business, examining
the pleasures and tortures of our culture's most glamorous industry. On
October 7, Premieres & Junkets has Jim
Carrey telling of his special kind of hoopla. |
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Several anonymous sources have confirmed that Jim
Carrey has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ
as his own personal saviour and will begin a 50 state evangelical tour
as soon as production of the movie is concluded. Jim is committed to spreading
the gospel of Jesus Christ to all of the unsaved. "For God so loved the
world," Jim recently remarked to a passerby, "that he gave his only Son,
so that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting
life. By the way, did you know that I'm Jim Carrey?" |
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Jim Carrey won
a major victory on September, 31 in his battle with the publishers of
Woman's Day over an
article which described him as "groper Jim". A Supreme Court judge threw
out a central part of the magazine's defence to the actor's defamation
action for damages and told it to modify other defences. The article, which
appeared in July last year, alleged Carrey sexually harassed female actors
and was offensive, erratic and childish. Justice John Hedigan ruled the
magazine could not argue as a defence that the "sting" of the article was
that Carrey was psychologically unstable. At a hearing in May lawyers for
Woman's Day argued Carrey's allegedly lewd, crude and disgusting behaviour
was simply a symptom of his mental instability. Jeff Sher, QC, quoted extracts
such as: "Jim would come to the set in weird and wacky disguises, grope
the female crew and cast members, then run away and think it was hysterical."
Mr Sher also said there were references to a "manic funny guy", his immature
attitude to women, and Carrey being "juvenile and sexually silly". But
Justice Hedigan said the headline of the article described the plaintiff
as "groper Jim" not "crazy Jim". It concerned his public and personal behaviour
and the way he treated female actors and his then wife Lauren Holly. The
judge said Carrey was a comic actor who relied on farce rather than wit
and the themes of his films were exaggerated behaviour. "In my judgement,
psychological instability, unattended by some limiting criteria, would
permit the dragging in of every variant in behaviour from some assumed
norm," Justice Hedigan said. "Phrases such as 'the manic funny guy' do
not seem to me to found any reasonable basis for the claim being made."
Allowing a generalization that Carrey was psychologically unstable to go
before a jury would have grotesque and insupportable consequences for a
plaintiff who claimed the article had a plain meaning. Justice Hedigan
said Mr Sher, appearing for ACP Publishing, argued that in simple terms
the actor was "nuts". Mr Sher told the court: "We are saying this man is
lewd, crude, disgusting, psychologically unstable and behaves in a reprehensible,
rattish and childish manner." But Justice Hedigan said Carrey's barrister,
Simon Wilson, QC, argued that the meaning of the article was quite clear
and no jury could think the magazine was saying his client was crazy. In
his statement of claim, Carrey said the magazine accused him of sexually
harassing actors Alicia Silverstone, Courtenay Cox, Jennifer Tilley, Drew
Barrymore and Courtney Love. He said he was portrayed as a "lewd, crude
and disgusting person" whose offensive behaviour caused actresses to refuse
to work with him. Justice Hedigan also threw out an ACP defence that it
could argue Carrey acted offensively towards women in general because he
did not tell his then estranged wife he had formed a relationship with
Lauren Holly. ACP will now have to make a fourth defence. No date has been
set for the trial of the action. |
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In Forbes
magazine's highest paid entertainers listed by 1998's
rank, Jim Carrey
occupies the No.37 position, with an estimated income in millions of dollars
$32.5. |
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According to Variety,
Martin Scorsese has
placed his Dean Martin biopic on hold until probably late in the next year.
Scorsese wants an all-star cast, which is impossible to accomplish in a
near future, due to scheduling difficulties from the stars. Scorsese's
dream cast includes Tom Hanks as Dean Martin, John Travolta as Sinatra,
Hugh Grant as Peter Lawford, Adam Sandler as Joey Bishop and Jim
Carrey as Jerry Lewis. |
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Jim Carrey donated
artwork and personal items for Legacy Founders
Cottage auction, held on September 23. Other
donors include Reba McEntire, Charlton Heston, John Travolta, Priscilla
Presley, Sissy Spacek, and Vice President Al Gore. Legacy Founders Cottage
is a licensed special care facility in Dallas that provides 24 hour medical,
psychological and spiritual services for persons with AIDS during critical
stages of the illness in a homelike setting. |
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Jim Carrey was
briefly hospitalized with a minor neck injury on September 23 after a scuffle
with professional wrestler Jerry Lawler
on the set of a movie about the late Andy Kaufman. According to the Associated
Press, on Tuesday night at Los Angeles' Olympic Auditorium Carrey and wrestler
Jerry Lawler were lensing a scene which recreated a fight between Kaufman
and Lawler.Carrey and professional wrestler Jerry The King Lawler - the
very man who broke Kaufman's neck during a wrestling exhibition 16 years
ago - were about to begin the fight scene Tuesday when Carrey tried to
set the mood by spitting in Lawler's face. That's when the brawny Lawler,
48, did some ad-libbing of his own, throwing the gangly star to the ground
before security pulled him away. Jerry turned around and got really angry,
ran back across the ring toward Jim Carrey, and Lawler started swinging,
said Andy Cisneros, an extra who watched the bizarre, wrestling-like melee.
Jim couldn't get out and got onto the floor and Jerry grabbed him by the
hair.Carrey's manager, Eric Gold, says his client was just playing the
part and that the wrestler acted unprofessionally. "Jim was immersed in
the role as Andy, played it as Andy would have," Carrey's manager, Eric
Gold, tells the wire service. "Mr. Lawler acted unprofessionally, and he
attacked him. He attacked him, and he injured his neck." "Jerry turned
real angry, ran back across the ring, pushed…Jim Carrey, and he started
kind of swinging," a witness was quoted as saying. Carrey, who was believed
seriously injured at first, was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital, where
X-rays showed no serious damage. He was treated and released with a minor
neck strain. When Jim returned on set on Wednesday, wearing a neck brace
and a visible look of discomfort, had difficulty talking - but was better
in the fight arena's dressing room scenes with Courtney Love. The cameras
had stopped when Carrey and Lawler got into the last brawl, but Carrey
kept going.It's now up to director Milos Forman to decide how to cut/use
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Variety reports that Universal won the rights to
adapt Dr. Seuss' book How the Grinch Stole
Christmas for a live action feature with
Jim Carrey attached
to star. Ron Howard will direct and his Universal based Imagine Films company
will produce. Carrey will play the Grinch, a creature with a heart two
sizes too small who attempts to spoil Christmas in Whoville by dressing
as Santa Claus and stealing all the Christmas gifts, trees and food. "Grinch
is a great character. He's a great sort of anti-hero who winds up growing
and doing the right thing," Howard said. Universal will pay an upfront
rights fee of approximately $5 million
to Audrey Geisel, the author's widow. However, what's generating
the biggest buzz is the back end potential of the deal, which includes
around 4% of the box office gross profits plus a merchandising
and soundtrack take said to approach the 50% range. According to the latest
reports, the movie is tentatively set to open by Christmas 2000, not 1999,
as originally said. |
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