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...Carrey is, of course, less an actor than a nuclear reactor. His answer to even innocent questions is a lightning fugue of hugely exaggerated facial ticks, bodily contortions and subverbal bleatings. His genius is for orchestrating these infantile responses in ways that are unduplicative, unduplicatable and explosively subversive. Since the curse Max lays on Fletcher makes him his own worst enemy, Carrey is led into long, hilarious wrestling matches with himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: JIM-NASTICS | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...Australian cast will provide some welcome discoveries to American audiences. Often Bossell successfully seems Jim Carrey-like in his facial expressions and awkward unpredictability. And the coyly acted romance between Young and Burrows, along with their good looks, may set a romantic heart or two aflutter...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: LOVE FROM DOWN UNDER | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...most part, rare. "We try to provide children with a calm, soothing place, not chaotic, star-studded events," says Leslie Johnson of the Westside Children's Center in Culver City, California. "Besides, children under three have different ideas about celebrity. When Barney came to our Christmas party, Jim Carrey could have been standing there and no one would have noticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD GOES GAGA | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...second room, the subject shifts to celebrities, mostly models and actors. Ritts takes no single approach to photographing them. There is the cast of Batman Forever in full costume, including Jim Carrey hamming it up as the Riddler and a huge Warholesque quartet of portraits of Jack Nicholson as the Joker. There is Vanity Fair's gender-bending cover photo of Cindy Crawford playing the seductress for k.d. lang. Unlike the anonymous models of the first part of the exhibition, whose faces are often turned away or obscured, the faces of the celebrities are essential to their portraits. However, sometimes...

Author: By Cicely V.wedgeworth, | Title: Herb Ritts Tells Boston To 'Work' It Out at MFA Exhibition | 12/6/1996 | See Source »

...Jerry Maguire, an upcoming Tom Cruise vehicle about a sports agent, and started to think that life might get better. Yes, the chairman of Sony's film studios, which include Columbia and Tri-Star, had presided over a particularly dreadful summer. He had been excoriated for paying Jim Carrey $20 million for The Cable Guy, which faltered at the box office. And as his competitors feasted on the returns from Twister and Mission: Impossible and Independence Day, Canton suffered the further indignities of Multiplicity and The Fan. But the screening of a potential Tom Cruise hit put Canton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATER TORTURE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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