Word: jim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Securities and Exchange Commission for giving stock tips to a friend. "It wasn't until I saw the subpoena that I saw a name attached to this so-called friend," says John Duffy, the firm's current CEO. "Clearly there were things he didn't tell us. Fortunately, Jim has been gone for six months. I kind of wish it was six years...
...Jim Carrey's uncanny portrayal of Kaufman may be the film's main draw, but it is Alexander and Karaszewski's re-creation of Kaufman's life, enigmatic and unapologetic, that best captures his anarchic spirit. "Sure, Jim's performance channeled the guy, but it's all part of a whole," explains Danny DeVito, who not only produced and co-stars in Man on the Moon but also appeared with Kaufman on Taxi. "Without a good script, everybody knows you'll wind up empty-handed. They nailed him, baby...
Milos Forman's film Man on the Moon, and Jim Carrey's performance as the artist constantly in question, don't attempt to answer that conundrum. Both merely present Kaufman with a dispassionate, ultimately hypnotizing objectivity. It is very possibly the best work each man has done, and assuredly the best thing screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have done in a joint career devoted to odd fellows--Ed Wood, Larry Flynt--coolly observed...
...Janet Reno b) Ross Perot c) Bart Simpson d) Jim Bakker...
STARRING: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner DIRECTOR: Mike Leigh OPENS...