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Jim Carrey and
his The Truman Show received an euphorical welcome at the Venice
Film Festival on September 6. The Truman Show,
shown in the Notti & Stelle (Night and Stars) out-of-competition gala
screenings, was, without any doubt, the Festival's hit. |
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Daily Variety's Army Archerd reports that
Jim Carrey recently
arrived at Gadsby's restaurant in Los Angeles dressed in a gorilla suit.
He then decided to play waiter to actors Laurence Fishburne and Clarence
Williams III before removing the costume's hairy head and placing it on
their table. |
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Midway through his Saturday (8/23/98) concert at the Arrowhead Pond of
Anaheim, Sir Elton
John welcomed
Jim Carrey to
the stage, and the pair ripped into a duet of Rocket Man. The crowd went
wild as Carrey matched John's rock wail with an impressive voice of his
own. Jim messed up on a line of a song, but Elton corrected it. Then instead
of singing "I think it's going to be a long long time" Jim
said "I think it's going to be, friggin forever!"
The cheers turned to laughter when Carrey sat beside John at the piano
for some four-handed accompaniment, but used his head instead. As Carrey
exited the stage, John said, "Whoo, boy! I won't forget that one." |
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Jim Carrey
belted out Mack the Knife with Jeff
Goldblum's jazz band, at Hollywood's Lucky
Seven supper club. According to one ear witness on the scene, Carrey forgot
the words, "but still managed to whip the crowd into a frenzy and looked
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Jim Carrey seems to have done more than his
share of research for his role as the eccentric Andy Kaufman in the Milos
Forman-directed biopic Man on the Moon.
Sources tell the trade that the A-lister has two trailers on the set: one
for "Andy Kaufman," and one for the late comedian's sleazy, abrasive Vegas
lounge singer alter ego, "Tony Clifton." The move isn't too surprising
given the history: When Kaufman starred on Taxi, he signed two separate
contracts, one for himself and one for Clifton, and demanded a separate
trailer for the Clifton persona, insisting all along that they were different
people. When Clifton misbehaved on the Taxi set, he was fired, and legend
has it that Kaufman, still in the Clifton character, was dragged kicking
and screaming from the set. Carrey allegedly asked the crew to call him
Tony during the first week of shooting, when he was shooting scenes as
Clifton, even when he wasn't in front of the camera. Carrey, who on NBC's
A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman revealed that the late comedian originated
the Clifton character before turning him over to friend and fellow comedian
Bob Zmuda, is obviously reveling in the role.Each day Jim explores a different
facet of Andy's life, going so far as to serve ice cream to everyone (Andy
was addicted to ice cream), haul a replica of Howdy Doody around the set
(Howdy was decked out with a black armband, in honor of the recent death
of Buffalo Bob Smith), and work with the catering crew (much like Andy's
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The day after the June 1 L.A. premiere of The
Truman Show, director Peter Weir and screenwriter
Andrew Niccol began editing a half-hour mockumentary on the life of Truman
Burbank. In the short film, which Weir shot during the production of the
movie, Harry Shearer - as TV host Mike Michaelson - interviews members
of The Truman Show's cast and crew. Included in the mockumentary will be
scenes of Truman as a baby, as well as clips from his adolescence and wedding.
So far, the film has no distributor, but it's expected to debut on pay
cable. |
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In My Life, the Beatles'
songs compilation produced and arranged by Sir George Martin and performed
by extraordinary stars, including Jim Carrey,
already available in Europe, will be realized on the U.S.A. by MCA Records
on October 6th. The album's release will be accompanied by a "Making Off"
TV documentary. |
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The British Press Association reports that Jim
Carrey eyed the starring role in the screen
adaptation of cult fave The Hitchhiker's Guide
To The Galaxy. |
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According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jim Carrey
has taken a shine to The God of Cookery,
a remake of the 1997 Hong Kong slapstick comedy of the same name, which
was written, directed, and starred Stephen Chiau, who, as synergy would
have it, has been referred to as Hong Kong’s answer to Jim Carrey. Carrey
would star as a world-famous cook who fixes culinary contests so he always
wins, even though he doesn't know a spatula from a whisk. After he's disgraced
by a man who once begged to be taken on as his student, he fights his way
back and must prove his skills by taking on his archenemy in a cook-off.
Jim hasn't committed to the film yet, but the trade said he'll give the
thumbs-up if the script meets with his approval. This is the third remake
Carrey has in the works. He's also developing the Don Knotts comedy The
Incredible Mr. Limpet and the Danny Kaye classic The Secret Life of Walter
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The Truman Show
has achieved the highest ratings ever from movie viewers at FlickPicks,
The Moviegoers' Web site, edging past the previous record holder, James
Cameron's Titanic. Truman currently has a 4.5 star rating (out of a possible
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A little known New York playwright named Mark
Dunn filed a $200 million suit against the
makers of The Truman Show
on June, 16, claiming the concept was lifted from his 1992 off-off Broadway
play Frank's Life. Dunn says Paramount Pictures rejected his script six
years ago, but turned around and used it for the Peter Weir directed Jim
Carrey flick. "It's my story," Dunn tells the New York Post. "The movie
could not have been written without someone seeing the play or the script.
Dunn's attorney, Carl Person, filed the suit in U.S. District Court, naming
Paramount Pictures, producer Scott Rudin, screenwriter Andrew Niccol, and
exhibitors Sony Theatre Management Inc. and Cineplex Odeon Corp. Dunn's
play ran for only three months, but he says the similarities between Frank
and Truman are clear. For example, both the play and the picture center
on an ordinary Joe who doesn't realize he's the star of a popular television
show; his parents, friends, and wife are actors; there's a godlike producer
working behind the scenes; and the plot revolves around the main character's
realization that his life is a sham. Caron Kanauer, a New York agent and
producer, tells the paper that she sent copies of Frank's Life to Paramount
and Fox in the summer of 1992. Both studios turned it down. According to
Paramount Vice Chairman Rob Friedman, the script was "never submitted to
Paramount at a level where it would have gotten high enough up on the executive
chain for anyone in development to be aware of it." Around the same time
Dunn submitted his screenplay, Niccol delivered a script that would later
become The Truman Show to agent Lynn Pleshette, and she tells the paper
that she made a deal with über-producer Rudin in the fall of 1992.
Pleshette, in a refreshingly candid statement, says Dunn's claims are "insane,"
and "every time a big movie comes out a moron tries to sue." And Dunn might
have a difficult time proving that he came up with the concept anyway.
Last week, the Los Angeles Times traced The Truman Show's origins back
to a 1966 dark comedy by Paul Bartel called The Secret Cinema. The short
film focused on a young woman who suspects her boyfriend and co-workers
are secretly making a movie of her life and showing it at a local theatre
on Saturday nights. She shares her paranoid fantasies with her shrink,
only to discover that he's the one producing the film. "The similarities
between the two films are obvious to anyone who has seen them," Daily Variety's
film critic Todd McCarthy tells the paper. "Secret Cinema played the New
York Film Festival at the time, and it was remade by Bartel as an episode
of the Amazing Stories TV show in 1986, so it's not exactly obscure." But
McCarthy says he doesn't "attach a huge significance to the similarity
since there is no such thing as an original idea." Niccol, who also penned
last year's futuristic Gattaca, says he'd never heard of Bartel's film
when he wrote the script, and has not seen it. |
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Jim Carrey was
honoured in the Best Comedic Performance category, at MTV
Movie Awards 1998. The awards ceremony is
broadcast June 4 on MTV. Receiving his fifth MTV Movie Award Jim thanked
his fans "who have always supported my comedies, but don't quite know what
to think of me in drama." The actor didn't forget to recognize his managers,
saying, "They should thank their lucky stars they ever met me!" Joke or
not, Carrey speaks the truth!!! |
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Jim Carrey and Lauren
Holly were a couple again at the Los Angeles
premiere of Carrey's The Truman Show (6/1/98), smiling and having fun.
Lauren, guest of The David Latterman's Show, announced that she will
marry Jim again early. Jim, who was watching the show on TV, was very surprised!
Just few weeks ago, the couple decided
to rent out Sting's Malibu house for three months this summer. |
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Jim Carrey sued
the sensationalistic Australian magazine Woman's
Day over a 1997
article that claimed he sexually harassed Jennifer Tilly, Courtney Cox,
Alicia Silverstone, Drew Barrymore and Courtney Love. And now the magazine's
lawyers are introducing as evidence in a Melbourne courtroom every possible
bit of dirt they can lay their hands on. The court heard last week (May'98)
how Carrey admitted having sex with prostitutes, supposedly masturbated
at the premiere of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and once videotaped a female
housemate having sex before he joined the party. Jeffrey Sher, a lawyer
for Woman's Day parent Australian Consolidated Publishing, contended Carrey
displayed "lewd, crude" and "childish" behaviour and submitted evidence
attempting to paint Carrey as "psychologically unstable." "To use a colloquialism,
he is nuts," Sher told Justice John Hedigan. Sher used a slew of magazine
and other press interviews to attack Carrey. Outraged Carrey has repeatedly
- and vehemently - denied the tales. Said one Carrey supporter: "They're
trying to build a case against Jim based on things he's said or joked about
in the past." Sher contended Carrey made lewd comments about Elizabeth
Taylor during a photo shoot in Cannes, and admitted, in a 1994 magazine
article, to having sex with hookers. The lawyer also trotted out published
photos of Carrey wearing only a fig leaf. (Never mind that the fig leaf
get-up was part of a skit at a fashion awards show.) He also found an old
interview in which Carrey talks about how he knew he'd made it as a star.
"I think when I went to the premiere of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, I think
I masturbated in the back of the cinema, and then I remembered Pee Wee
Herman and then I stopped," the comic is quoted as saying. Carrey's lawyers
say the Aussies have "gone through everything they can publicly find to
present him to a jury as a crazy nutter." Says one Carrey defender: "A
lot of it is Jim just plain joking around." So there. |
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Steve Oedekerk,
37, is writing and will direct the remake of The
Incredible Mr.Limpet, starring Jim Carrey.
The movie is due to start shooting in May. Oedekerk wrote and directed
also Carrey's Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995). |
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Jim Carrey has
been an anonymous benefactor for some New Yorkers. The New York Daily News
cites a New York magazine article in which Carrey says he "used to go around
writing 'Have a good day' on $20 and $5 bills and leaving them in places
that peoplewould find them." Carrey says he would leave them in places
like sidewalk cracks and then leave because he didn't want to see the bills
be discovered. |
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According to the editors of Premiere magazine,
which ranked the town's biggest stars, directors and deal makers in a list
of the "100 Most Powerful" people in the Hollywood biz, Jim
Carrey now occupies the No.21 position on
the list. |
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