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...highlights The two-disc collector's edition of this tense, loopy love story would be worth the extra few bucks just for the running commentary by elusive Charlie Kaufman, the Salinger of screenwriters. And by the way, who does Jim Carrey have to, you know, make love to to get an Oscar nomination...
...Baudelaire orphans in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events manage to endure; using their courage and ingenuity, they survive every mishap in the “series of unfortunate events” that comes their way. The children are constantly pursued by Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), the crafty villain who dons multiple disguises and comes up with outrageous plans to kill the Baudelaires, hoping to inherit their massive family fortune...
Despite its dark plotline, the film is filled with humor. Lemony Snicket is more or less a children’s movie, but the humor should appeal to people of all ages. The dialogue is witty and ironic, and the actors play their characters charmingly. Jim Carrey is especially impressive as the evil yet strangely endearing Count Olaf, whose appearances in all his disguises are equally hilarious. Meryl Streep lives up to her legendary reputation in the role of the neurotic Aunt Josephine; she is as bemusing in her phobias as she is touching in her delusions. Jude...
While hordes of native-born celebs are encouraging Americans to vote, some immigrants of stature are just earning the right. Canadian-born funnyman JIM CARREY says he was motivated to become a U.S. citizen by the upcoming election. Awww ... should we tell Carrey and the other newly minted Yanks that California is not in play...
Three years later, having changed his name from Eric Bishop to the gender-neutral Jamie Foxx (comedy-club owners at the time were booking women sight unseen), he landed on In Living Color, the sketch-comedy show that launched the careers of Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez and several dozen Wayanses. Foxx soon made a name for himself playing characters like Ugly Wanda on In Living Color, Crazy George on Roc and Bunz in Booty Call, a movie about a quest for condoms. (He also released an R&B album, Peep This, that he would like to forget.) But Foxx discovered...