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Laura Linney has been down this road before. It was 1998, and The Truman Show was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for her creepy, hilarious turn as Jim Carrey's wife, an overly cheerful actress who periodically turns to hidden cameras in their home to plug household products, and the film itself was absent from the Best Picture category. "You call something the movie of the decade and you're asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Performers | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual-revolution poster girl Mary Ann Singleton in two Tales of the City miniseries (a third will air this year on Showtime). But in her major movies, she's been upstaged by her male co-stars: Truman's Carrey, Absolute Power's Clint Eastwood, Primal Fear's Richard Gere and Congo's primal brutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Performers | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Laura Linney has been down this road before. It was 1998, and The Truman Show was being heaped with critical praise. By the time Oscar season rolled around, however, the film had lost much of its heat. Truman received a handful of nominations, but Linney was denied a nod for her creepy, hilarious turn as Jim Carrey's wife, an overly cheerful actress who periodically turns to hidden cameras in their home to plug household products, and the film itself was absent from the Best Picture category. "You call something the movie of the decade and you're asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Performers | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual-revolution poster girl Mary Ann Singleton in two Tales of the City miniseries (a third will air this year on Showtime). But in her major movies, she's been upstaged by her male co-stars: Truman's Carrey, Absolute Power's Clint Eastwood, Primal Fear's Richard Gere and Congo's primal brutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Performers | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...Mirth." And she has a nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual-revolution poster girl Mary Ann Singleton in two "Tales of the City" miniseries (a third will air this year on Showtime). But in her major movies, she's been upstaged by her male costars: "Truman"'s Carrey, "Absolute Power"'s Clint Eastwood, "Primal Fear"'s Richard Gere and "Congo"'s primal brutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Boffo Actors Worth Checking Out | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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