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Biography
He was born James Eugene Carrey on the
17th of January, 1962, in Newmarket, Ontario (it's worth noting that
both of America's biggest comic film stars - Carrey and Mike Myers - are
Canadian). Newmarket was a neat and easy-going town just to the north of
Toronto, and it was here that Carrey spent his early years with his
three older siblings - Pat, John and Rita - and parents Percy and
Kathleen. Kathleen suffered depression and was often chronically sick
with illnesses both real and imagined.
Percy, sharp-witted and highly amusing,
was formerly a sax player in a big band, but had sold his sax and his
dreams to take a job as an accountant. His wife's father habitually
referred to him as "Loser", easily done as Percy was extremely
mild-mannered. Indeed, Jim would later model The Mask's Stanley Ipkiss
on him.
As a kid, no doubt trying to seize
attention from the family, Jim became a serious extrovert. He loved
Christmas when visiting relatives increased his audience. For years he
obsessively studied TV shows, perfecting impressions of the stars (and
also of his alcoholic grandfather) and putting on one-man shows in the
basement. At Junior High School he insisted on performing for his
classmates and the teachers soon realised that the only way to calm the
boy was to allow him a 10-minute slot at the end of each school
day.
By the age of 10 he'd already tried to
get a book of his poems published and mailed his resume to the producers
of the Carol Burnett Show. He'd wear his tap shoes to bed in case his
parents needed cheering up in the night - evidently he already had the
capacity to be incredibly annoying.
But this happy(ish) life didn't last. While Carrey was in 9th Grade
Percy lost his job and was forced to sell the house, relocating the
family to Scarborough, a bleak industrial landscape on the edge of
Toronto. Here, to make ends meet, the whole family took jobs as security
guards or janitors at the Titan Wheels factory. Jim would work an 8-hour
shift after school, scrubbing toilets and the like, the experience
hardening his will to escape to a better life. Understandably, his
school grades suffered as classes became a minor priority.
Jim felt more comfortable vandalising the
neighbourhood with his brothers and performing for his bedridden mother,
occasionally sending her crazy by creeping around in his underwear and
pretending to be a praying mantis (clearly the inspired lunacy had
already begun). At one point the Carreys were caught up in a racial
confrontation at the factory. "We temporarily became bigots",
Jim would later recall. It was a bad scene all round, with the family at
one time all living in a VW camper van.
At 16, Jim dropped out of High School altogether and, keen for a life in
show business, concentrated on his stand-up act. Percy, now battling
manic depression, was a keen stage dad and, being something of a
comedian himself, helped Jim write his first routines. The boy had made
his debut at 15 at Yuk Yuk's comedy club, dressed in a yellow polyester
suit with tails, made by Kathleen and similar to the garb he'd later don
in The Mask.
And it was a disaster, a titter-free
embarrassment. Yet Carrey was undeterred and carried on scoring slots at
Toronto's clubs, perfecting his impressions of Michael Landon, Henry
Fonda, Gandhi, a post-Armageddon Elvis and his own hero, James Stewart.
Stewart was what Carrey wanted to be, an all-round nice guy but (unlike
Percy) no pushover. Such was his devotion to the great man that when in
the late Eighties he finally met him, he went ga-ga and thoroughly
humiliated himself.
Come 1979, the ultra-enthusiastic Carrey
relocated to Los Angeles in the hope of hitting the big-time. Fairly
quickly he won a regular slot at the Comedy Store, winning standing
ovations in the main room. Spotted by Rodney Dangerfield, he was taken
out on tour as the veteran's support act and fondly recalls an evening
backstage at Caesar's Palace when he swapped rapid-fire gags with
Dangerfield and a proud and overjoyed Percy.
Yet he didn't seem to be able to make the
next step up and watched - not with resentment but a profound sense of
worry - as the likes of Arsenio Hall and Sam Kinison strode past him to
stardom. His fear was only increased when, having been invited onto
Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, he performed his impressions but was not
invited to join Johnny on the couch for a career-making chat. He thought
his chance had gone forever.
In the meantime, Carrey was building a small and pretty unimpressive
screen CV, mostly finding roles in Canadian productions. He made his
debut in All In Good Taste, where a journalist infiltrated the porn
industry and many, many breasts were on show. Carrey appeared briefly as
the guy's cameraman when he visits a massage parlour, both men having to
go naked. More than a few famous actresses have first appeared in the
nude. So did Jim Carrey, revealing his buttocks to the camera but
covering his pride and joy with a 35mm camera.
Next came Introducing... Janet where a stout girl wins favour with her
classmates by cracking self-deprecating jokes about her weight, then
decides to try a career in stand-up. Carrey would appear very briefly as
a comedian who helps her along, his presence allowing unscrupulous
producers to later repackage the movie as Rubberface. The movie was
followed by Club Med where Carrey played the goofy buddy of tortured
comedian Alan Thicke, the pair seeking fun and frolics at a ski resort
where they encounter such star performers as champion skier Jean-Claude
Killy and singers Rita Coolidge and Ronnie Hawkins. It was, as you can
imagine, desperate stuff. There'd also be a guest appearance as a Jerry
Lewis impersonator, alongside Dabney Coleman and Geena Davis in the TV
series Buffalo Bill, about a frustrated mid-West talk-show host.
It was all going a little too slow for the ambitious Carrey. No big film
roles were coming his way. Joel Schumacher later recalled that he was
blown away by Jim's audition for his 1984 comedy DC Cab, but still
couldn't hire him, recognising that Carrey's ferocious energy demanded a
vehicle all of its own. Still, a breakthrough of sorts came when Jim was
taken on as Skip Tarkenton, the star of series The Duck Factory. Here he
played a young animator who works on the Dippy Duck Show, suffers from
major insecurity and usually bears the brunt of office shenanigans.
Film-wise too things were improving.
Richard Lester's Finders Keepers saw him amongst a bunch of oddballs
seeking a stashed fortune on a train from California to Nebraska
(Beverly D'Angelo and Louis Gossett Jr also featured). Then came his
first starring role proper in Once Bitten, a comedy horror movie with
Lauren Hutton as a vampire countess who must feed on the blood of a
virgin in order to keep her youthful looks - Jim playing her randy
victim who thinks he's got lucky with a glamorous older woman then finds
himself sleeping all day and feasting on raw meat.
Now making good money, Jim took the opportunity to move his parents from
Toronto down to his place in LA. But just as he was looking set fair it
all fell away. The movies were failures and the under-rated Duck Factory
was canned after a mere 13 episodes. Within a year his money had run out
and his parents were proving to be a bind, just mooching about the
house, smoking and watching TV. Jim reached such a state of desperation
that he began to dream of strangling his mother and started a painting
of his father, armed with a stop-watch and a gun, called Waiting Around
To Die. Eventually, he was forced to send them back to Toronto - the
hardest thing he had ever had to do.
Despite his difficult situation, Carrey's ambitions remained intact. It
was now that he took a ride up to Mulholland Drive and looked down over
Hollywood, visualising massive stardom for himself. On a piece of file
card he replicated a cheque for $10 million, made out to himself and
post-dated for Thanksgiving Day, 1995. Incredibly, the visualisation
would actually work, and just in time. Only three days before Percy's
death, Carrey would be offered $10 million for The Mask 2, delighting
his father no end. Carrey would slip the original piece of card into his
dad's breast pocket before they closed the coffin.
But that was later. In order to reach his outrageous goal, Carrey knew
things would have to change. He ditched his impressions and, reviving
the crazy skits from his earlier act (Worm Man being just one of his
characters) launched himself on a stranger, zanier course that would
later see him compared to Aristophanes and Buster Keaton. The French in
particular would consider him a genius, calling him the son of Jerry
Lewis and the new Tati.
To get there Carrey began to pull out all the stops. On the comedy
circuit he gained a reputation for fearlessness and ruthless upstaging.
Guesting on The Arsenio Hall Show he pretended to be overcome by nerves.
Stepping shyly out from behind the curtain he stood in apparently
terrified silence before the audience as, gradually, a dark stain spread
out across his crotch.
With the new act, things were looking up,
yet there was still more disappointment to follow. In 1986, he
auditioned for Saturday Night Live, alongside Dana Carvey and Phil
Hartman. On his way into the NBC building he noticed one of the
company's employees up on the NBC sign, threatening to jump. A large
crowd was gathered beneath, waiting to see. Not an ideal situation for a
comic needing to be at his absolute funniest. Unsurprisingly, Carrey
failed the audition - though it's just as likely he wasn't chosen
because he would have upstaged the lot of them. There would be further
blows when his next two film roles didn't help his career, despite the
movies' high profiles. First he played Kathleen Turner's loudmouth
classmate and Nic Cage's best friend Walter Getz in Francis Ford
Coppola's back-to-the-past comedy Peggy Sue Got Married. Then came a
small part in Clint Eastwood's fifth outing as Dirty Harry, The Dead
Pool.
Still Carrey persisted. With his stage act ever improving, he was now a
prime stand-up draw. He also found love, in 1986 meeting waitress
Melissa Womer at a comedy club. They would marry the next year, with
Melissa producing a daughter, Jane Erin, soon after.
Two years would pass between The Dead Pool and his next role, but it
would be worth the wait. In Earth Girls Are Easy he was Wiploc, one of
three aliens (the others being Jeff Goldblum and Damon Wayans) who land
in a Californian manicurist's swimming pool, enjoy a cosmetic makeover
and proceed to get it on with the hot bikini babes surrounding them. It
wasn't a big hit, indeed it wasn't very good, but Carrey did impress his
co-star Wayans. This would prove to be his making.
1989 merely brought comedy consolidation, a brief appearance in a Mike
Hammer mystery and a short uncredited role in a second Clint Eastwood
feature, Pink Cadillac. The new decade, though, would bring outrageous
fortune. Unbeknownst to Carrey, Keenan Ivory Wayans was putting together
an all-black comedy show, In Living Color, and was looking for a token
white guy.
At the suggestion of his brother Damon,
he chose Jim - an excellent choice for all concerned as Carrey's army of
loony characters helped make the show a huge hit when it was launched in
1990. Fire Marshall Bill in particular captured the imagination of the
nation, and caused some controversy when the TV authorities noted the
dreadful safety advice the accident-prone Bill was dispensing to young
children.
As said, In Living Color was a great success and really boosted Carrey
who was given his own TV special in 1991. And Carrey would not be the
only one to use the show as a springboard. The whole Wayans family would
be feted for their efforts, as would Jamie
Foxx and Chris
Rock. Even the regular dance troupe, The Fly Girls, produced winners
in choreographer Rosie Perez and bootie-shaker Jennifer
Lopez.
But Carrey would not hit the heights immediately. His first step back
into the movies was in a serious role, the first of several attempts at
ordinary "acting". This was in the TV film Doing Time On Maple
Drive, concerning a severely dysfunctional family hiding behind a veil
of niceness - Carrey playing the alcoholic older brother. He'd receive
high praise for his role but, because of what happened next, it would be
6 years before he again attempted a full-on dramatic part.
What happened was this. Once In Living
Color had established his name, Carrey was offered the script of a movie
called Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. It was the kind of vehicle for his
idiosyncratic brand of comic mayhem that Joel Schumacher had envisioned
years earlier, allowing him to really let rip. At first he was too busy
then, in 1992, he agreed to it. For 4 months, after rehearsals for In
Living Color, he'd work from midnight till four on the script,
perfecting the craziness of Ace Ventura - his first masterpiece.
As the title suggests, Ventura specialised in crimes involving animals
and the movie saw him searching first for Snowflake, a dolphin trained
to perform tricks at half-time at the upcoming Superbowl, then for
kidnapped Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino. Throughout, Carrey
would mug wildly, twisting his body into ludicrous shapes and behaving
like a snotty child in an adult's body, often using overblown politeness
to attack the likes of Dolphins publicist Courteney Cox and copper Sean
Young. Despite the beautiful women there was no sexual chemistry here,
indeed no hint of sex at all (apart from the odd innocently wicked
leer). This was simply Carrey at his childlike best - needy, selfish,
smug and hilariously untamed.
Made for just $12 million (of which Jim received $350,000), the film
went ballistic at the box office in early 1994, quickly taking over $72
million. Now all those hours spent before the mirror working on his
rubberfaced gurning were paying off. A few months later came his next
headlining feature - The Mask. Here he was mild-mannered bank clerk
Stanley Ipkiss who discovers an ancient mask that's long rested at the
bottom of the bay.
Putting it on he's transformed into a
super-active, wisecracking, all-singing, all-dancing superhero who takes
on the Mob while spinning debutante Cameron
Diaz around the dancefloor at immensely high speeds. It was another
fabulous performance, like a hi-octane Ace Ventura with the childishness
replaced by a hint of menace (it was actually intended to be a horror
film before the part went to Carrey), and went gold at the box office.
It also revealed that love-hate division when Jim was nominated for both
a Golden Globe and a Razzie.
As if to prove that he always goes that
one step further than anyone else, Jim ended 1994 with a third smash
hit, Dumb And Dumber, the movie that broke the Farrelly Brothers. Carrey
starred as Lloyd Christmas, a dopey, infantile loser who hangs around
with fellow prat Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels), cracking inane jokes and
breaking things.
Basically, they are child-men, romantic
dreamers forever on the edge of puberty, with no hope whatsoever of
achieving their grand goals. But, by God are they funny, particularly
when chauffeur Carrey drops rich girl Lauren Holly at the airport, picks
up the briefcase she's left (full of money for the people who've
kidnapped her husband) and feels duty-bound, with Daniels in tow, to
deliver the case back to her at her home in Aspen. Surfing across the
country on a tsunami of silliness and crudity, they bicker, fight and
cause all manner of accidental death before finally forcing a thoroughly
bizarre love triangle on poor benighted Holly.
Dumb And Dumber was a classic and another smash hit. Made for $16
million, it netted $246 million world-wide, meaning that 1994 had seen
Carrey generate over $550 million. In one year he had gone from token
white guy to the biggest film star on the planet. Unsurprising then that
High Strung, a movie in which he'd guested back in 1990 found itself a
release. This starred and was directed by Steve Oedekerk (soon to direct
Carrey in Ace Ventura 2), a Comedy Store pal of Jim's and a writer for
In Living Color, the movie being a monologue to camera interrupted by
visitors arriving at the door. One would be a young Kirsten Dunst, the
last would be Carrey, as Death.
Despite the opportunities now open to him, Jim's success also brought
with it a serious loss as his marriage to Melissa Womer broke down. The
pair would be finally divorced in 1995, leaving Jim free to wed Lauren
Holly, recently divorced from Anthony Quinn's son Danny. Having watched
her on TV back in the bad old days when she starred as Julie Rand
Chandler in the soap opera All My Children, he'd finally met her on Dumb
And Dumber. Indeed he might have met her earlier as, having successfully
tested for Courteney Cox's role in Ace Ventura, she turned the part
down.
The daughter of university lecturers and with an English Literature
degree of her own, Holly was from a very different background to
Carrey's. She was also an increasingly busy actress, having just starred
as Bruce Lee's wife in Dragon. After Dumb And Dumber she'd move on to Harrison
Ford's Sabrina, then played the feisty stewardess brilliantly
menaced by Ray Liotta in Turbulence. Under this kind of pressure, it's
no wonder the stress quickly told.
Married in September 1996, the couple
would be divorced by the following July, after a barrage of publicity
including tales that Carrey, still in his early thirties, was having to
use Viagra to improve a work-crushed libido. Jim's marriage woes would
continue to blight him into the next century. In 2003, Womer filed with
the Los Angeles Supreme Court, claiming that the $10,000 a month Carrey
was paying was not sufficient to meet the needs of young Jane, then
pursuing her own career in entertainment.
Now Jim was in the big league and, ever
willing to risk it all, stepped up to play The Riddler in Joel
Schumacher's Batman Forever (he actually replaced Robin
Williams, who'd later replace him in Death To Smoochie). It was
another sterling performance, particularly at the beginning when, as
suicidal computer geek Edward Nygma, he breaks down and plots revenge
upon the world by using a nasty little box to suck the mind from every
TV viewer in Gotham City. Such was Carrey's presence that Tommy
Lee Jones, as partner-in-crime Two-Face, was forced to pull out all
the stops, the pair engaging in the kind of screen-hogging duel seldom
seen in modern cinema.
Next came Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, reuniting Carrey with Steve
Oedekerk (who'd go on to write the excellent Nutty Professor and Nothing
To Lose, as well as Carrey's Bruce Almighty). Here Ace has exiled
himself to a Tibetan monastery having, in an outrageous mimicking of
Stallone's Cliffhanger, failed to rescue a racoon. Then he's drawn back
to find a disappeared bat, the sacred symbol of some African tribe.
Naturally, Jim felt the need to top the original and thus achieved the
kind of comic anarchy beloved of young audiences. Regurgitating to feed
a baby eagle, sticking his arm down a man's throat and climbing out of
the bottom of a mechanical buffalo, he went all the way, enjoying
another $100 million hit for his pains.
Now came his first huge payday (he received $20 million, the most ever
for a comic actor) and his first major cinematic risk. Directed by Ben
Stiller, The Cable Guy saw Carrey as a lonely workman who badgers
his way into the life of customer Matthew Broderick then turns psychotic
when his friendly overtures are rebuffed. Though the part was originally
written for Chris Farley, Carrey was again superb, mixing his usual
lunacy with hefty doses of a very real pain, culminating in a tragic
speech in the middle of an enormous satellite dish. It was a major step
on from the burgeoning desperation he brought to Edward Nygma and, of
course, audiences didn't go for it at all, the movie being Jim's first
significant flop.
Amazingly, it was now claimed that Carrey was in terminal decline.
Critics had not liked the way Schumacher had camped up Tim Burton's
Batman franchise, When Nature Calls was just a sequel and The Cable Guy
had failed at the box office. Hence, so the reasoning went, Jim was
finished. Well, that kind of zaniness could only ever have been a flash
in the pan. 1994 had been his 15 minutes and that was that. Wasn't it?
Far from it. Carrey's talent proved far
more enduring as he bounced back immediately when he re-teamed with Ace
Ventura director Tom Shadyac for Liar, Liar. Here he played Fletcher
Reede, a lawyer who lies in court, lies to his wife and lies to his
young son, disappointing them both constantly. However, when the boy's
birthday wish is that this situation change, Carrey finds himself unable
to fib for a full 24 hours, casting his life into total confusion.
Having had sex with his dominating boss Amanda Donohoe, he's asked how
was it for him, "I've had better" jumping from his mouth
before he can stop it. Then there's trouble in court as this new
truth-telling destroys his defence of an hilariously adulterous Jennifer
Tilly.
Back on familiar ground, Carrey tore the place up again, winning a
second Golden Globe nomination. Before the awards ceremony, a clearly
delighted Jim would quip about his competitors "It's insane . . . I
mean, Nicholson, Hoffman, Jackson, Kline - I don't see how I can
lose". And audiences reacted well, takings approaching the $200
million mark. Clearly reports of his demise were somewhat exaggerated.
But Carrey himself was not comfortable with this situation.
Feeling that audiences would eventually
grow tired of his manic comedy, he decided to forsake the mindboggling
wage packets (he took $12 million rather than the usual 20) to test
himself with Peter Weir's The Truman Show. Here he was Truman Burbank,
an insurance salesman in a small seaside town, happy with the simple
things in this American idyll.
What he doesn't know is that his whole
life is a lie. Born on TV, he's lived ever since on a huge film-set
enclosed within a vast bubble. His wife, his relatives, his friends are
all actors under the direction of Ed
Harris's Christof, the philosophical, beret-wearing producer of the
show, who sees Truman as his son. But sons eventually do not do their
father's bidding and Truman gradually, painfully begins to suspect
something is going on.
The Truman Show was a superb movie, brilliantly conceived and executed.
And Jim, no longer relying on his comedy, was a revelation (well, a
revelation to anyone who hadn't watched what he'd done in Batman Forever
and The Cable Guy). At last he won a Golden Globe but was seriously
miffed that he wasn't nominated for the Oscar, feeling that comedians
were unfairly overlooked. Nevertheless, he was soon at it again with Man
On The Moon, Milos Forman's biopic of the surreal and confrontational
comedian Andy Kaufman (Carrey, who shared Andy's birthday, also owned
his bongos and played them for Forman during his audition). Yet again
Jim was excellent, managing to bury his own neediness and immerse
himself in Kaufman's character (his background in impersonations came in
handy) to the extent that Danny DeVito, Kaufman's co-star in the TV
series Taxi claimed his performance was "eerie".
The movie was not a huge hit, but Carrey
had proved to most (some people just CAN'T like him) that he could
really act. He took a second Golden Globe and was yet again ignored by
the Academy. He reacted by generating another massive wedge with two
comedies in 2000. The first saw him back with the Farrellys for Me,
Myself And Irene. Here he was a mild Rhode Island state trooper who lets
the world kick him about, his wife for instance delivering him three
black babies then dumping him. One of his problems is a split
personality that he controls with medication, and this comes to bite him
when he's ordered to transport crime suspect Renee Zellweger. Losing his
medicine, he flips between good guy and bad guy, both halves of him
falling for his young charge and starting an internal war.
Another showcase for Carrey's demented antics and the Farrellys'
gross-out humour, it was another big success. Tellingly, though reviews
were not great, takings actually improved in its second week.
Word-of-mouth had struck again. Jim moved on to Ron Howard's How The
Grinch Stole Christmas, playing the misanthropic beast that attempts to
ruin festivities in Whoville. His costume and prosthetic makeup was so
uncomfortable he received torture resistance advice from a Navy SEAL,
but it was all worthwhile. Jim was Golden Globe-nominated for the fifth
time and the movie made $260 million at the US box office, selling more
tickets than any other movie of 2000.
Just as Carrey's split personalities had both fallen for Renee Zellweger
in Me, Myself And Irene, so did the man himself. It seemed a great match
- the world's greatest clown and an upcoming comedienne of evident class
who'd charmed everyone with her performance opposite Tom
Cruise in Jerry Maguire. But the massive publicity and Zellweger's
extended stay in the UK filming Bridget Jones's Diary put an end to it,
the couple splitting at Christmas, 2000, after less than a year
together. Jim would later be spotted with actress January Jones and
Bolshoi ballerina Anastasiya Volochkova.
Carrey moved on to the Capra-style rom-com The Majestic, directed by
Frank Darabont, highly renowned for his Stephen King movies The
Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Here Jim played Peter Appleton,
a blacklisted screenwriter who's called up before the House of
Un-American Activities Committee in 1951. Involved in a car accident, he
suffers amnesia and ends up in a small town where he's thought to be the
MIA soldier son of former cinema owner Martin Landau. Not unlike the
French hit The Return Of Martin Guerre, the movie sees the town and its
people brought out of post-War depression by the arrival of a possible
imposter and, as a devout hymn to America, you'd have thought it would
be a major hit. It wasn't.
After the attacks of September 11th,
2001, when Carrey donated $1 million to the families of the dead, he
embarked on another period of fierce activity. Deciding against
rejoining Joel Schumacher for Phone Booth, he went instead for Tom
Shadyac, Steve Oedekerk and Bruce Almighty. Here he played a wannabe TV
anchor man, frustrated by his lack of success and fearful of losing his
fiancee, sweet kindergarten teacher Jennifer
Aniston. Blaming God for all his troubles, he's suddenly visited by
the Man Upstairs himself (Morgan
Freeman) who gives him divine omnipotence to see if he can do any
better. It was extremely charming and amusing stuff, and gave Carrey
another $200 million hit (a high return was now imperative as Jim's wage
had now risen to $25 million).
After this came Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, another freak-out
from the pen of Charlie "Being John Malkovich" Kaufman. Here
Jim and Kate Winslet played lovers who endure a tumultuous relationship
until Winslet decides to undergo a new-fangled operation to have all
memories of their time together erased. Carrey decides to copy her but,
in the midst of the op, discovers his earlier passion for Winslet and,
from deep within his own mind, tries to stop the process. Naturally, Tom
Wilkinson, the inventor behind all this madness, cannot allow this to
happen and sends aides Kirsten Dunst (Jim's co-star back in the
little-seen High Strung) and Elijah Wood in to get him, the pair
pursuing him through his own memories.
Following this would come a film adaptation of the first Lemony Snicket
novel, A Series Of Unfortunate Events, where Jim would play Count Olaf,
plotting to murder the orphaned kids of a dead distant relative. Then
there'd be Fun With Dick And Jane, a remake of the 1977 George
Segal/Jane Fonda romp where a middle class couple get into money trouble
and resort to crime. And then there would be the long-delayed and
much-anticipated Spielberg remake of The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty,
which would finally place Carrey in the shoes of Danny Kaye as the
hen-pecked wimp who constantly dreams of himself as a death-defying
hero.
After years of struggle and self-doubt, Jim Carrey is now the world's
premier comedian and looks set to remain so for many years to come. He
has also revealed enough acting ability to show that he will doubtless
follow fellow-clown Robin
Williams into a successful "serious" career. So you'd
better get used to having him around. Love him or hate him (and you must
do one or the other), you can't ignore him. ~ Dominic Wills
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