Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biopic on eccentric comedian ANDY KAUFMAN? "He's extraordinary," says Carol Kane, who plays herself in the film. Rumor has it that Carrey has asked for two trailers on the set, one for when he's playing Kaufman and one for when he's playing Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Odd as this is, it's nothing on Kaufman. Apparently, when Kaufman was in character as the lizardly Clifton, he would eat food like red meat that the comic, who was a vegetarian, wouldn't normally touch. After such binges, Kaufman would occasionally eat a length of cheesecloth...
CREATIVITY + EGO + MONEY = HOLLYWOOD BUNFIGHT...
That final image of a woman being auctioned off to satisfy some male ego was more than enough to discredit any arguments in favor of strip clubs that Lloyd Hendricks and Al Zuccarini made in our hour-long discussion. More than enough to reserve my right to be disgusted by the success Big Al's has found in Peoria--this supposed cradle of middle American values and attitudes...
...admirable feat for a geezer but no longer the irreplaceable original. In those days, rockets named for the god Apollo went up from Cape Kennedy like chariots of fire and carried a cargo of such elemental significance and mystery that even Norman Mailer was awed and knocked off his ego for an hour or two. Mailer wrote that Cape Kennedy was "the antechamber of the new creation...
...attentions. Actually, this is no news at all--not to anyone who has seen her work in movies as various as Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog and Volcano. In them Heche established the fact that she's good in crises, vulnerable yet capable, not someone the ravening male ego can walk all over, yet supportive when the crunch comes...