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...attribute.) Moreover, humankind cannot bear "nothing but the truth." Meursault in Camus's The Stranger is incapable of lying and is executed for it. Prince Mishkin in Dostoevsky's The Idiot is a man of perfect honesty who brings disaster to everyone he meets. And in Liar, Liar, Jim Carrey, who has played a few idiots in his time, is even more insufferable as a truth teller than as an inveterate b.s. artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies My Presidents Told Me | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...work. No figures available on Clinton's first diversion, that February tango with Saddam, but those battleships sure don't run on solar power. And as overhead, you've got Ken Starr. At $40 million, the taxpayers would certainly have been better entertained by two Brandos and a Jim Carrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potato Games | 8/21/1998 | See Source »

...EVANS, 34 Circle of Hell: I Seems like: Jerry Lewis on speed Next Seinfeld? Better yet, the next Jim Carrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...Evans works harder than anyone who isn't employed by UPS. He sweats so much during his spastic show of pause-free buffoonery that he has to throw his suits away after five performances. Though his bigger-than-Jim-Carrey muggings are funny and his scatological jokes are fine, the audience appreciates the ex-boxer's earnest, humble hard work as much as the laughs. "I used to come off really cool, and people would yell, 'Get off!' And I thought it would be better to move around a lot," he explains. "The philosophy is, a moving target is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Rock plans to stick to comedies for now. "To me, Jim Carrey's most impressive work is Dumb & Dumber," Rock says. "It's society's ignorance about how hard comedy is that people go, 'Now he's really doing something in The Truman Show.' There are 30 guys in Hollywood who could do Truman. There's only one guy who could do Dumb & Dumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Star | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

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