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Memoirs and Misinformation: A Novel

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Initially, “Memoirs and Misinformation” is inviting with its well-written structure and assertive Carrey background. I know it's become a popular trope to claim that comedians are often the darkest people, but I have little sympathy/empathy for a guy waddling in his own self pity from a cozy 10 million dollar Malibu Beach house.

Cary Elwes was inspired to share his memories and give fans an unprecedented look into the creation of the film while participating in the twenty-fifth anniversary cast reunion. There was so much about it that was beautiful and tragic, and then the beauty was broken up by "what in the world am I reading?Carrey does his best Jimmy Stewart, but neither he nor Darabont have the edge or shadings that Stewart and Capra sneaked in to keep their movies honest.

Vis radau įdomių įžvalgų, o ir svajojau atrasti atsakymą kodėl būtent viskas taip čia pateikta, ir kaip autorius sugebės užbaigti knygą. One moment, “Carrey” dreams of strangling his late mother; the next, he pines for Renée Zellweger (“his last great love”) and challenges Nicolas Cage, a man “whose artistic bravery had always given him courage,” to a jujitsu duel.In hindsight, this isn’t exactly top-shelf Carrey — it’s mostly fun for the platform it gave him to cut loose, which audiences at the time couldn’t get enough of — but it’s consistently funny. In it, Jim Carrey and Dana Vachon have fashioned a story about acting, Hollywood, agents, celebrity, privilege, friendship, romance, addiction to relevance, fear of personal erasure, our "one big soul," Canada, and a cataclysmic ending of the world--apocalypses within and without. Despite his obvious talents, Carrey’s career had never quite taken off when he was young, and by 1994, he was well into his 30s and running out of time.

La introducción y la parte que cuenta como su colega Andy Kaufman quería que participara en un biopic de Mao Tse Tung (! So when producers of a movie about a wacky pet detective saw him on In Living Color and gave him a shot (for a film whose script he found “horrible”), he threw himself into the role like it was his last chance to be a star, which, all told, it probably was. Jim Carrey has been sharp in a number of non-comedic roles, but this lurid, overheated, and self-serious potboiler is not one of them.Kick-Ass 2, and Carrey’s role in it, is mostly known now for Carrey disavowing the movie and its violence in the wake of the Newtown shootings, tweeting, “in all good conscience I cannot support that level of violence. Moments of candor and alarming or moving revelations are a bit lost in the mad rush from Hungry Hungry Hippos in Digital 3D to the end of the world, when “Cher and Dolly Parton whizzed by overhead, both singing Leonard Cohen’s 'Hallelujah. Readers like myself living in Los Angeles will especially understand Carrey’s references in a very concise way. Pradėjau skaityti vedama vienos idėjos, geriau susipažinti su aktoriumi, jo vidiniais demonais, išgyvenimais, tačiau jau po pirmųjų puslapių buvo aišku, kad ši knyga yra visai kas kita nei tikėtasi. He's tried diets, gurus, and cuddling with his military-grade Israeli guard dogs, but nothing seems to lift the cloud of emptiness and ennui.

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