Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope to see Jim Siegelman ['73], who blackballed me, shake his hand--and ask him if he's still writing obscure books on cults," Franken jokes...
...Saturday Night Live skit or one of David Ives' miniature metaphysical farces. But can such a notion sustain a full-length film (even one that clocks in at a svelte 102 minutes)? And will the film satisfy the mass audience's interest in what is, after all, a Jim Carrey Summer Movie...
Niccol sold his spec script to the world's savviest producer, Scott Rudin (In & Out, Clueless, The First Wives Club), who took it straight to Carrey. "Jim had the kind of madness the project needed to ultimately get made," he says. "And his warmth was a hedge against a movie that could have been on the cold side and needed someone with audience sympathy...
...people around him were ambitious actors, and all his life they were leaning in very close to him. There was a lot of grinning by overfriendly people trying to gain his influence. Thus he has a very public persona, an exaggerated external self." The director could be describing the Jim Carrey who in 1994 had emerged from supporting status into the heat of celebrity and sycophancy. Weir also detected "something alien about Jim, an 'otherness' that worked...
...find his ex-wife and children. You should not have focused on someone who says he has "always gotten" what he wants. No wonder Shah's ex-wife left. Instead you should have featured those who cannot afford to spend a lot of money to recover their children. JIM MCMILLEN Arlington, Texas...