Word: truman
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...while it's easy for a cartoon character to be Mickey Mouse (especially when he hasn't appeared in a full-length film in decades), it's quite an accomplishment for a human being under Truman Show conditions. Jordan's public image is empty by immaculate design. "I'm around him all the time, and what he has to put up with--media attention and people making demands of him and wanting him to be here, there and everywhere--he does a tremendous job. He's done a great thing with his image and really kept it pretty clean," says...
...Files fans--or X-philes, to be annoying--are double sufferers. Maybe even triple sufferers, since we are afflicted not only by history and by our own fantasies but by "creator" Chris Carter's as well. We watch his series (and, starting this Friday, the movie) as a reverse Truman Show--wishing not so much that the protagonists could be released from their scrapes with fate as that we could join them in the fantasy chaos. It's no accident that our favorite side characters are not the delectably evil Cancer Man (the architect of an imminent armageddon that...
...happy to see such a great article about Jim Carrey [CINEMA, June 1]. I have been a Carrey fan from the beginning and am excited by his new movie, The Truman Show. I know he is actually a great actor, not just a clown. This movie will change his career and will prove to the world that he is not merely a one-joke man but is one of the best actors Hollywood has to offer! ERIC SNYDER Gilbert, Ariz...
...referred to The Truman Show as "the summer's smartest movie." Um, I hate to point this out to you, folks, but in a season filled with a giant radioactive lizard and big ole asteroids, it doesn't take much to be smart! ZACK HANDLEN Lyman, Maine...
...subtle and evocative opening to E.M. Forster's Victorian romance, Howard's End, the words "only connect" take on a profound meaning in 28-year-old Michael Byers' debut collection of evocative short stories about unfulfilled longings and lives around the fog-shrouded Seattle shore. A Truman Capote fellow in the Wallace Stegner Fellowship program at Stanford University, Byers himself transmutes into the characters of his creation by an impressive flex of his literary muscles...