Word: liar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other topics range from history--Anne Sexton: A Biography, by Diane W. Middlebrook--to fiction. The exhibit features, among other novels, the best-selling The Liar's Club, by the Institute's director, Florence Ladd, who will step down at the end of this year...
...early riser, so the first two or three hours of my vacation mornings were spent getting the news from the likes of Maxwell, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Frank Conroy, Alice Adams, Stewart O'Nan, Charles Baxter--short stories and novels--and from Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, a memoir so rich it might be a novel...
...overactor," he says, "as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter." Unlike Vincent, Carrey has found fans while he's still alive. So far, most have Y chromosomes and are under 25. But he's hoping his newest movie, Liar Liar, in which he plays a dad who has to tell the truth for a day, will change that. "It will open my work up to a different audience, like older women, who I may have alienated," he says. As for going over the top, his current project, The Truman...
Magically, Max's dream comes true. The premise of Liar Liar is that all the false promises and compliments that ease our paths through the day, all the little evasions that oil the wheels of social and professional, as well as sexual, intercourse are suddenly unavailable to Fletcher. And remember, he's a lawyer...
...directed by Tom Shadyac, there's enough surrealism in Liar Liar to content all but the most exigent Carrey fans. But there's something worrisome about the film's attempts to socialize and sentimentalize the '90s' designated anarchist. It's wrong to push characters like Carrey's toward mainstream lovability. Danger, with just the slightest touch of lonely-guy geekiness, is his business. Maybe The Cable Guy was miscalculated, but one would rather see Carrey heading for those dark woods than toward sun-splashed suburbia and the cheerfully romantic ending of this film...