He Has The Questions, But Not All The Answers
Behind that manic comedian’s mask, there’s a lot going on inside Jim Carrey’s head.
Carrey, currently stealing the show as the Riddler in “Batman Forever,” says his humor onscreen is actually a form of therapy.
“I have to spew all this stuff out,” Carrey (“The Mask,” “Dumb and Dumber”) tells Newsweek magazine. “Otherwise, I’d be on the roof with a high-powered weapon.”
His parents, both dead now, were one source of tension. Carrey started supporting them at age 17, and almost had a nervous breakdown when they were living with him in the mid-1980s and his career took a dive.
Says Carrey, now 33: “I resented them because there had always been a lot of pressure on me to be the star, to save their lives, to buy them the big house with the pillars - like Elvis, you know?”
British-born Jane Leeves (“Frasier”), on her “Benny Hill Show” days: “I was a very modest Benny Hill girl. I used to like to run into water and find the biggest pair of knickers I could. He was a very quiet, strange man.”
From day one, they knew she was a natural
Juliette Lewis turns 22 today.
In other words, he thinks they’re robbin’ him
Minneapolis artist Andrew Leicester sued Warner Bros. on Monday, saying his work was imitated in the design of Gotham City in “Batman Forever.” Leicester calls the film a “continuous sequence of violent acts. It has a weak plot. It is a terrible movie and the effect it has on my artwork is indescribable. It is a nightmare.”
No Madonna? Everyone’s already been in hers
“Batman” co-star Nicole Kidman has joined such celebrities as Elle MacPherson, Mel Gibson and Andre Agassi in donating a pair of their old jeans to a fund-raising auction for an Australian children’s hospital.
And casual sex these days is for dummies
Rolling Stone magazine reports that the soon-to-open Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland will feature a first in the fashion field - anatomically correct mannequins. Explained designer Stephen Sprouse: “Rock and roll is about sex.”
He’s looking like another washed-up whiz kid
Ty Herndon, the rising country star arrested for allegedly exposing himself to an undercover officer, has checked into a drug rehab clinic. Says his new answering machine message: “I’ll tell you what the moral of the story is - don’t pull off the road and take a leak in the woods.”
The key to happiness is achieving a balance
‘70s singer Gino Vanelli (“I Just Wanna Stop”) has resurfaced in Portland, older and wiser after sinking $250,000 in debt. The turning point, he says, was encountering a Hindu monk in Malibu: “He emerged almost as if from a trance, and then he faced me and said, ‘What you really need is a good accountant.”’
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