Word: carrey
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Peter Weir, who directed Harrison Ford in Witness and The Mosquito Coast, and Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, admits to being fascinated and a bit frustrated by his leading man: "One evening when we'd just had a spectacular week of dailies, I looked over at him and said, 'How do you do it?' And he shot back, 'I don't know. How do you?' That's about as deep as we got. I think I knew Jack Aubrey better than I knew Russell Crowe...
Today, Bruce just reads as sort of risibly effete. Take the premise of Jim Carrey's latest movie. A guy named Bruce becomes God? That's FUNNY! But a guy with a "regular" name...
...only Edgar Bronfman Jr. could borrow the powers of God, like Jim Carrey in Universal Pictures' Bruce Almighty. Then the former CEO of Seagram, the distiller that once owned Universal, could turn back time and erase the disastrous sale of the firm his family founded to France's Vivendi. Since that deal in December 2000, Vivendi Universal's stock has dropped 71%, devastating the Bronfman family fortune. And Edgar Jr., despite some successes at Seagram, has reinforced his image as dilettante and wannabe mogul. Business Week crowned him one of the worst managers of 2002, and New York magazine called...
...COMPETITION Jim Carrey and Memento director Christopher Nolan...
Together they boast three Harvard diplomas, an award-winning musical and an upcoming Jim Carrey movie. They’ve been inspiration for a Seinfeld episode and their own Ben and Jerry’s ice cream flavor. Now the O’Keefe brothers—Mark, Danny and Larry—will bring their family saga to a new semi-autobiographical show on Warner Brothers...