Word: truman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Could "Truman" -- the story of a man whose life is televised from birth -- really happen? Only on the Internet. Starting at 6 a.m. EST this morning, a Florida baby's emergence from the birth canal was broadcast to the public on the Web by America's Health Network...
...life were separated somewhat at birth: While Jim Carrey's Truman was born right on cue, producers of the real-life baby Sean's birth battled a few glitches. They included one of the oddest pregnancy complications ever: server trouble. Access to the the AHN site was difficult if not impossible as would-be watchers clogged the lines. Some 300,000 people tried to log in to the site, which was set up to handle only about 10,000. Which is probably just as well: Doctors had to induce labor. Perhaps this baby was suffering from stage fright...
Today, nuclear warfare threatens the Indian subcontinent. Had Harry Truman imagined this circumstance? At the time he made the fateful but valiant decision to nuke Japan, President Truman was controlling what he hoped to be the denouement of a most horrendous global conflict. Though he was initiating the nuclear age, he could not possibly have forecast the dissemination of nuclear know-how to countries which at the time were still under the domain of the late British Empire. Even the Soviets were still in the dark as to the workings of America's newest weapon...
...always Carrey's take on the main character. "Truman isn't the man next door," says Weir. "He's someone who was brought up by wolves and lived in a nest of liars. The 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...
...thought of the Carrey face as beautiful? In this film it surely is. That's star quality and craft in tandem, the gift of recapturing innocence even as the movie recaptures the ability of the best old Hollywood films to work as metaphor and magic. Together, Carrey and The Truman Show leave the viewer with a spectral feeling that somehow warms: the shiver of radiance...