It's good that he circled her like a shark around a surfer first before speaking. That's a nice way to look sane.
He was such a huge star when I was in high school, and now he's been driven mad by the system that created him. I suppose there's a certain poetry there, but it's awfully sad. It's hard to remember why I thought he was so awful. I guess because he was?
He usually played truly awful characters.
The woman he's talking to appears to have left home without completing dressing.
I like how the interviewer is visibly angered by someone not playing the game.
I thought she might be angered at how he was circling her like she was chum.
He stopped doing that after a bit.
It's kind of interesting how Carrey after getting an established career in comedy, did three or four "serious" movies. The Truman Show was the first, probably the best-known, and maybe the best, but Eternal Sunshine also stands out in my mind. (Those are the only two of his serious movies that I've seen.) And then he went back to the comedies. This seems kinda weird. Lots of actors switch their specialty, but few switch twice or switch back. Did he figure he had paid his dues as a serious actor and could go back to the comedies he enjoys? Did he decide he had failed at the serious stuff or it wasn't making enough money or getting enough critical acclaim, and he wanted to go back to what was safe?
Jim Carrey's had a few minor roles in random movies in the 80s, but apparently he became famous as the one white guy on In Living Color. I'm only familiar with it as a bit of trivia but in hindsight I wonder how much that influenced him or his roles in later stuff.
Reading about him on Wikipedia, his personal life seems like every bad stereotype of a celebrity. Two marriages, no big deal, but one lasted less than a year. A "former girlfriend" died of a drug overdose and while Carrey wasn't definitely involved, it looks like an unhealthy relationship. Anti-vaxxer and believes in the "law of attraction."
Those were his two serious movies I saw, too, and I was surprised he went back to doing dumb comedies. I thought he was a decent serious actor.
I actually have vague memories of watching the TV show that gave him his first starring role for the 1 season that it was on the air.
I have a distant memory that he was really funny on In Living Color.
Second 12. He was a good serious actor too. I had figured they just weren't paying the bills.
Unless I'm missing some stories, he's still barely even .1 on the Nic Cage scale.
Huh. I can't say that I got the read of #1, #2. And agree with #4, #6: He seemed like NFLTG Jim Carrey. And it was laugh-out-loud funny. Truly laugh-out-loud funny.
Re: serious movies, lordy, _The Truman Show_ was amazing (to me) (at the time). I should re-watch it and see how it ages, I guess. Never particularly liked his comedy, but must admit his face is a wondrous instrument.
I am a fan even of his comedies because he's great. The Cable Guy... If he's genuinely living without mood altering chemicals, all is not well, too bad.
I wish him a peaceful and possibly happy decade and then a suitably talented director to bring him out of retirement/oblivion for Gloria Swanson's role in a remake of Sunset Boulevard. Maybe that Refn guy will have grown up by then.
This horrible joke gets my son laughing every time
That's stolen straight from Chekov.
I remember him on ILC, kids at school imitated his Fire Marshall Bill character.
You could see the look on the woman's face at the moment she realized this clip was going viral.
Didn't they name a syndrome after The Truman Show, people who feel like life is a simulation centered around them? Or renamed whatever it was called before- or did it not exist before the movie, which is even more impressive if there are actually people who have that disorder and the movie coined the term for it?
Paranoid/persecution disorder, presumably.
I have a mental tic about a throwaway joke from the beginning of Liar Liar, when he has just been rendered unable to lie. The cop pulls him over and asks him if Carey can tell him why he pulled him over. Carey rattles off a laundry list of violations in one long breath, ending with, "and I changed lanes in an intersection while speeeeeeeding!" and then gasps for air. I mentally tack that on to so many long lists that I'm kind of astonished to recollect from whence it was first derived.
he's a truly incredible mimic as well. he's able to compose his rubbery face into that of other people in addition to doing the voices really well.
Wow, he's aged a lot. Gracefully, but noticeably.
He's doing better than the typical Canadian his age.
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So I just broke the fuck out of my other foot, hopping on it to stay off the recovering foot while merrily chasing my kid. I wonder what bone it is that is newly visible there. As the kids say, FML? Are those kids in college now?
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Jesus lk, you take good care too. Ouch.
I made my mom break her foot while she chased me when I was a kid.
It made me super attentive when putting her in assisted living, so you probably got that going for you.
Oh god, lk, don't do that! I hope you're better soon!! Keep us updated, please.
I think this is the second foot my kid can claim. I'll make her a necklace of broken feet. She likes jewelry.
Less legal trouble than the skulls of your enemies.
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My husband broke two pairs of my glasses and I thought that was bad! Two feet is, well, two feet too far.
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Yikes. Healing vibes. Consider waiting for the attending rather than the resident. If you can get recommendations for a good local
Orthopedic surgeon, maybe ask for those now?
Make the luridling set the bone itself, so it'll be haunted by guilt forever.
Jim Carrey as the background guy has always been my favorite. I probably think about it about 30% of the time that I see someone being interviewed on a street.
oh god I'm so sorry lurid keyaki that's the worst! broken feet are so time-consuming to heal. I hope it's a minor break and I'm sending you good vibes.
46: A failure to understand the visibility of likes on twitter.
I'm getting dangerously close to actually signing up for Twitter.
Well if she hadn't been so sensuously swimming in the shallows she wouldn't have run into the shark, would she?
47: absent mindedness, I think. Or else it's like that nightmare you have where you suddenly realised you came to work that morning with no trousers on. SHE'S HAVING THAT NIGHTMARE. WE ARE ALL JUST CHARACTERS IN A FASHION REPORTER'S NIGHTMARE. which explains the way I dress.
49: I hear it's good for getting porn suggestions from politicians and journalists.
20: Well, he just left it on the mantelpiece in Act One. What else was there to do?
52: Yeah, my girlfriend (who needs a better pseud than "Sharky") actually told me about the Cruz thing just now while I was folding laundry.
while I was folding laundry
Euphemism alert.
I now have a boot and crutches, and am busying myself with work and arranging everything in my room to be either a) within easy reach or b) not on the floor to be tripped over. Thank you all for your well-wishes.
Actually I have a request: do any of you know any good French Canadian podcasts or other media? Movies? TV? Quebecois preferred, but anything if it's good.
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