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Hollywood celebrities and Playboy
centerfolds gathered Saturday, April 10 at the Playboy Mansion to celebrate
the 73rd birthday of founder and editor-in-chief, Hugh M. Hefner. For the
first time in nearly a decade, Hef's birthday bash will be a "sleepwear
only" event, with elegant sexiness the standard for his estimated 600 guests.
In recent months, news media around the world have hailed the Mansion as
the new party headquarters for the hottest stars in Hollywood, and invitations
to the Holmby Hills estate are prized by celebrity party-goers from Jack
Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio to Cameron Diaz, Jim
Carrey and scores of up-and-coming stars and
starlets. The Mansion festivities will be available to Web surfers through
an exclusive cybercast accessible at www.playboy.com. Viewers who want
complete access to the cybercast, including a four-camera switched video
feed, can find it by joining the Playboy Cyber Club at cyber.playboy.com.
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Saturday Night Live cast member Molly Shannon
has landed the female lead alongside Jim Carrey in How
The Grinch Stole Christmas. Shannon will play
Betty Lou Who, mother of the famed Cindy Lou Who, who is roused from her
sleep by the Grinch as he tries to plunder Christmas from Whoville. Mrs.
Who is not in the original Dr. Seuss book, but becomes a big presence in
the feature. (Variety, March 29, 1999) |
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20th Century Fox is close to a deal to reunite Jim Carrey with his Dumb
and Dumber filmmakers Peter and
Bobby Farrelly on the split-personality comedy
Me, Myself And Irene.
Neither Fox nor Carrey's reps would comment about the film or Carrey's
involvement; but Carrey wants Irene to be his next film, sources close
to the project said. Fox still has to come to financial terms with Carrey
(whose take home pay rests firmly in the $20 million neighborhood), but
to some close to the talks, that is considered a formality. The production
budget is expected to be about $45 million. Irene, rich with physical gags
and equipped with the Farrellys' now-signature dismissal of the high-brow,
should serve as a further showcase of Carrey's comic largess. Carrey will
play a Rhode Island state trooper with a split personality. When he fails
to take his medication, each of his competing personalities falls in love
with the same woman (Irene), and with his internal chemistry now in tumult,
they declare war on each other. Once a deal is finalized with Carrey, Fox
and the Farrellys are expected to begin preparing the film for a May start,
with release set for next spring or summer. Shooting is expected to wrap
in July or so, allowing Carrey to move on to Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch
Stole Christmas, which Ron Howard is set to start shooting this fall at
Universal for a Thanksgiving 2000 release. The Farrellys co-wrote Me, Myself
And Irene with Mike Cerrone. The plan had been for the Farrellys to produce
the picture but not direct, so that they could prepare the Siamese twins
comedy Stuck on You to direct for Fox. But the plan changed once Carrey
became involved. (Variety, March 27, 1999) |
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Jim Carrey and
model Carol Alt were
seen snuggling at Elton John's In Style party. (March
22, 1999) |
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Jim Carrey is
nominated in the Favorite Actor - Drama category. at the
5th Annual Blockbuster Awards airing in June
on Fox. (March 15, 1999) |
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R.E.M. will write
the score and a new song for the upcoming Andy Kaufman biopic, Man
On The Moon, starring Jim Carrey, scheduled
to be released late Fall this year. (March
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Now that Sony has managed to free Spiderman
from the bonds of legal-rights red tape that have kept the highly coveted
character out of movie action for years, you'd better believe there'll
be a string of actors crawling all over each other to get cast as the web-tossing
superhero. Jim Carrey
has made his interest clear. (March
6, 1999) |
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The New York Daily News reports that Man On The Moon co-stars Jim
Carrey and Courtney
Love had an hourlong tête-à-tête
following a recent Hole show at the Palace Theater in Los Angeles. Carrey
was on hand to watch Love's band perform Sunday night at a concert put
on by MTV. After the set ended, says the paper, the $20 million man "slipped
into [Love's] backstage lair." "I don't know what they were doing in there,"
an insider tells the News. "And no one was knocking on the door to find
out. They wanted privacy." The two became friends on the set of the Andy
Kaufman biopic, and both recently went through breakups, Love with Edward
Norton and Carrey with Lauren Holly. But Love's publicist insist the two
aren't romantically involved. They're "friends," the rep tells the paper.
"People keep trying to link her with someone ever since she stopped seeing
Ed Norton." (Mr Showbiz, February 24, 1999) |
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Jim Carrey is
a lock to play that "nasty, wasty skunk" who sets out to torment all the
Whos in Whoville. Universal Pictures confirmed Monday that Carrey will
indeed headline the live-action version of Dr. Seuss' How
the Grinch Stole Christmas (try fitting that
on a marquee). The film will be released Thanksgiving of 2000, with Ron
Howard directing and Brian Grazer producing. According to the Hollywood
Reporter, Carrey tried on his Grinch costume — courtesy of Oscar-winning
special effects guru Rick Baker — on Monday. "We saw Jim in his Grinch
outfit, and this is the perfect vehicle for him," Grazer tells the trade.
"It allows him to be what he's so genius at being — powerful and creatively
resourceful." Carrey will reportedly receive $20 million up front for the
Grinch, plus a chunk of the sure-to-be-lucrative merchandising sales. (Mr
Showbiz, February 23, 1999 ) |
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Film and music celebs such as Jim Carrey,
Sarah Michelle Gellar, No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst,
Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland, and Courtney Love's "200 Cigarettes"
co-star Paul Rudd all turned up for the "Celebrity Skin" contest concert
at the Palace in Los Angeles on Sunday Night. After an opening set by Remy
Zero, Hole hit
the stage for a set that found Love doing her best to scare off the industry
heavy crowd so that the group could only play for their true fans and friends.During
its two-hour set, Hole mixed classics like "Violet" and "Doll Parts" with
new songs like "Celebrity Skin," "Malibu" and "Awful" for the 1,250 capacity
crowd. For the encore, Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson played "Northern
Star" solely for contest winner Josh Kessler of Urbana, Illinois. (MTV,
February 22, 1999) |
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Jim Carrey was
nominated as Favorite Movie Actor for The Truman Show at Nickelodeon's
12th Annual Kids' Choice Awards. The live
awards show will be hosted by Rosie O'Donnell from UCLA's Pauley Pavilion
in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 1 beginning at 8:00 p.m. The annual Nickelodeon
Kids' Choice Awards has emerged as one of the biggest and most star-studded
events in Hollywood, boasting a massive popular vote and sweeping audience
participation. It is the only awards show that gives kids the power to
vote for their favorites in movies, television, music, sports and much
more -- and honors their choices with a live show filled with the celebrities
that they love. (Business Wire, February 17,
1999) |
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After Jim Carrey's
win at the Golden Globes, people are stunned over Carrey's omission from
the list of Oscar nominees in the best-actor category. |
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Jim Carrey raced
into the women's loos of a Los Angeles hotel to fetch a $1200 (about R7
200) Gucci bag left behind by actress Cameron
Diaz. (Sunday
Times, 07 February 1999 ) |
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The Jim Carrey
starrer The Truman Show received five nominations in the 11th
Annual Chicago Film Critics Awards, including
Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Weir), Best Screenplay (Andrew Niccol),
Best Actor (Jim Carrey), Original Music Score (Burkhard Dallwitz). The
Chicago derby has 12 competitive categories and presents special awards
to an individual and organizations that have made significant contributions
to the local film scene. The 11th Annual Chicago Film Critics Awards will
be held on Monday, March 1, 1999 in the Grand Ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. In addition to seeing the Awards ceremony,
attendees will also be treated to live music, film clips, open bar, extensive
foods and a celebratory atmosphere. Tickets are $90.00 per person, and
may be purchased by calling TicketMaster at 312-559-1212 or at www.TicketMaster.com.
(Variety, January 19, 1999) |
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Jim Carrey is
the fourth Hollywood's most bankable star, according to a paper presented
at the American Economic Association convention in New York City this month.
In "Uncertainty in the Movies: Can Star Power Reduce the Terror of the
Box Office?" college researchers Arthur DeVany and W. David Walls argue
that after studying more than 2,000 films, they found that only 21 movie
names have at least a 5 percent statistical chance of turning a movie into
a hit. (Phillynews, January 17, 1999) |
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audiohighway.com,
an Internet-based information and entertainment company, announced it has
signed a content license agreement with Uproar Entertainment to provide
comedy programming on the audiohighway.com Web site. The agreement allows
audiohighway.com to carry stand-up comedy routines from comedians Jim
Carrey, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Redd
Foxx, Pauly Shore, among others. (Business
Wire, January 12, 1999) |
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Real Entertainment
has announced the retail launch of its newest compelling collection of
hard-hitting reality-based entertainment - Celebrities: Caught On Camera!
It is an unauthorized documentary look into the personal lives of superstars.
It contains revealing paparazzi clips of hundreds of renowned celebrities
such as Jim Carrey,
Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Nicolas Cage. Celebrities: Caught On Camera! (Item
#2723, 53 minutes, Not Rated) is available exclusively through Real Entertainment
(www.realentertainment.com/pr)
for $14.99 SRP. The title has an order date of February 2, 1999 and a street
date of March 2, 1999. (Real Entertainment,
January 11, 1999) |
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Jim Carrey was in a sound sleep when his agent
woke him to say he had just been nominated for a Golden
Globe. "If I’m still dreaming, I hope I’m
not going to wake up suddenly," said Carrey, who traditionally has been
known as a comic. But his starring role in The Truman Show netted him his
first dramatic actor nomination. "It feels tremendous to be openly accepted
when you switch gears," he said. "I must have done something nice in my
past life to deserve this - like saving someone from a burning building
and then going in once more to get their hamster. It's either the biggest
compliment in the world or another White House smokescreen - just another
way of delaying the impeachment process.It was such a leap in my career
when Truman Show came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar
as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.""I
pulled the sleepers out of my eyes and danced around the room a little
bit," said Jim, who was nominated for best actor after toning down his
manic comedy style for the starring role. "It's an amazing thing to have
this kind of acceptance when you make a departure." The Truman Show won
kudos for Best Drama, Best Actor In A Drama (Carrey), Best Supporting Actor
(Ed Harris), Best Director (Peter Weir), Best Screenwriter (Andrew Niccol),
and Best Original Score. The Golden Globes are sometimes a bellwether for
the Academy Awards and will be given out Jan. 24 on NBC. (December
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Jim Carrey told
Variety columnist Army Archerd he was feeling like himself again after
wrapping up the Andy Kaufman story, The Man On The Moon. Carrey said the
experience was even more emotional than his work on The Truman Show. In
1999, Carrey will devote his time and energy to family films. First up:
The Incredible Mr. Limpet for Warner Brothers. Then he'll take on the Dr.
Seuss classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Carrey said, "Both are films
that a child and an adult can enjoy." (Variety,
December 18, 1998) |
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The Truman Show will
be released on videocassette January 12. |
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A special dedicated to the biography and work of Jim
Carrey, produced by MTV, will be aired on
January 26. The program is one in a series called BIOrhythm. |
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Jim Carrey and
Woody Allen as
Siamese twins? That's exactly what brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly hope
to do in Stuck on You. "The theory is that Jim and Woody can be Siamese
twins because they share a liver," the wild and wacky Peter Farrelly tells
the Boston Herald. "Jim has most of the liver, so Woody's not aging well."
In the story, the twins run a burger joint in Rhode Island but Woody's
character wants to be an actor, so they travel to New York to audition
for parts together. The Farrellys already have signed up Allen to star
and have an offer out to Carrey. (New
York Daily News, December 19, 1998) |
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Danny DeVito,
celebrated his 54th birthday in New York, at Rao's — the tiny, impossible-to-get-a-reservation
joint in East Harlem. Sony Music chief Tommy Mottola hosted a group that
included Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion and Jim
Carrey. Dinner started out quietly enough.
But around sambuca time, owner Frank Pelligrino turned up the jukebox.
Carrey came out of his shell to sing Under The Boardwalk and Up On The
Roof. DeVito joined in but was advised by Mottola to keep his day job.
Fortunately, the jokers got some professional assistance from Dion and
Estefan. (New York Daily News, November 22,
1998) |
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Jim Carrey hung
out until 4 a.m. at Rande Gerber's Whiskey Park with Eddie Vedder,
Nicolas Cage,
Patricia Arquette and Sean Penn, after a special screening of Penn's film,
Hurlyburly. Sporting a shaved head, Carrey went unrecognized until he un-masked
his 1,000-watt grin. The actor, striving to be even more realistic as Kaufman,
has shaved his head for his final, dying period.
(New York Daily News, November 18, 1998) |
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The Saturday Night Live
set is struck Tuesday, 24 November, and replacing it is an exact replica
of the one from the first show, on which Andy Kaufman appeared in 1975.
It's for a scene in Man on the Moon starring
Jim Carrey as Kaufman. Michaels, who appears as himself in the scene, says
the re-created set "is fabulous - the same designer has done it once again
for the movie." (Variety, November 17, 1998) |
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The bunny's back. Seems that the famed Playboy
Mansion, that faded center for celebrity debauchery,
is making a comeback. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was the place to be. But
AIDS and the feminist movement did in Hugh Hefner's grand bachelor pad.
Now, according to E! Online, Hollywood's young and hip have discovered
Hugh, his lounging PJs and even the mansion's grotto, purported site of
many a star-and-bunny coupling. Among the newbies: Jim
Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Drew
Carey, Fiona Apple, Tori Spelling and Jerry Springer.
(Detroit Free Press, November 17, 1998) |
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Triumphant debuts by The Truman Show,
in France and Belgium and in the U.K. After pocketing $11.6 million in
26 territories at the weekend, The Truman Show ascended to $75.6 million
overseas, highlighted by the U.K.'s $15.6 million, France's $7.9 million
(in 19 days), Australia's $7.2 million and Italy's $13 million. In Italy,
it has tallied $5.2 million after its second weekend, tracking 130% ahead
of Carrey's Liar Liar. The Jim Carrey comedy launched with a potent $3.5
million in four days in Germany, a solid $1.8 million in two days in Japan,
a juicy $512,000 in three days in Austria, $526,000 in four days in Hong
Kong, $322,000 in three days in Mexico and $216,000 in four days in Singapore
and $406,000 in two days in Taiwan. (Variety,
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The recent success of the movie A Night At
The Roxbury, now in theaters, makes Jim
Carrey smiles. The pic, starring Chris Kattan
and Will Ferrell, was based on a Saturday Night Live skit which started
when he was hosting the show. This story about three guys going in the
clubs to get girls became the most popular of the show. But the fact is
that Jim has written this idea with the SNL cast. Of course, he is uncredited
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Jim Carrey could soon to be taking calls from
Control on his shoe phone. The Hollywood Reporter says that hit-starved
Warner Bros. is in final talks to land Spyville,
a script the studio is hoping to make into a feature version of the TV
classic Get Smart, with the rubber-faced $20-million man in the lead. Carrey
has not committed to the project, which was penned by Nick Marine and will
reportedly be picked up in a low- to mid-six figure deal. (Mr.
Showbiz, November 4, 1998) |
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The Truman Show pocketed
a total of $6.1 million in 15 markets and its foreign total climbed to
$45.7 million, excluding Brazil and Spain, which did not report. The Jim
Carrey vehicle snared $3.3 million in five days in France (beating Liar
Liar by 20%), $418,000 in four days in the Netherlands and $217,000 also
in four days in Israel. (Reuters/Variety,
November 3, 1998) |
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