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Mary Ann Hill said her son was both "happy-go-lucky" and a "perfectionist." And, she said, he had his priorities straight. "Christ was first in his life. Education was second," she said...
Colleagues describe a Carrey who is selflessly dedicated to his work, a perfectionist always looking for ways to turn a joke around and make it better, an endless fount of ideas. He, on the other hand, describes himself as someone forced to serve his fertile imagination as much as it serves him. As a kid, he says, "there was no place in the world I wanted to be except in my bedroom, drawing pictures. I got so lost in it that if my mother wanted me to do something normal, take the garbage out or anything, I would literally have...
...into the rough, unfamiliar seas of Broadway that he encountered troubled waters. The Capeman--Simon's first Broadway musical, seven years in the works, opening this week--has weathered one of the most heavily publicized and problem-plagued births of any show in years. Reports that Simon, a legendary perfectionist, has not taken well to the demands of theatrical collaboration have been the buzz of Broadway for months. The show's opening, originally scheduled for Jan. 8, was postponed three weeks when a new director--the show's fourth--was brought in to do some last-minute retooling. Even...
...course there is more to it than that. A perfectionist, she has turned herself into one of the best in her narrow field; her 20-ft. palms are almost impossible to distinguish from living vegetation. "Our goal is to make you stand up and touch it to find out if it is real," says Lewis. She has allied herself with another globe-trotting expert: Paul Steelman, an interior architect who specializes in casinos. "Linda follows us around and helps create the casinos we want to create," says he. In a world hungry not just for American style but for American...
...hasn't worked since 1987's Full Metal Jacket, is also in London, where he is filming Eyes Wide Shut, a psychosexual thriller with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman; Kubrick began shooting the picture almost a full year ago and, exceeding even his own reputation as a quasi-demented perfectionist, shows no signs of wrapping any time soon. "They're having a great time," says Cruise and Kidman's publicist...