October 23, 2003
REMAKING HIM WORSE, DUMBER, SLOWER.
Jim Carrey Goes Bionic (Josh Grossberg, E! Online, 10/22/03)
Jim Carrey is normally one of Hollywood's $20 million men. Looks like he's taking a huge paycut.I heard Lindsay Wagner on the radio yesterday doing a commercial for the Sleep Comfort bed. Twenty-five years ago the combination of the ideas "Lindsay Wagner" and "bed" could have powered a small city, if that energy had been harnessed. Hmm . . . "harnessed". Posted by David Cohen at October 23, 2003 10:05 AMThe rubbery-faced funnyguy is ready to go bionic in a send-up of The Six Million Dollar Man.
Unlike the classic 1970s ABC sci-fi series starring Lee Majors, the movie--which has long been in development as a by-the-numbers suspense thriller--will now be transformed into a comedy vehicle, allowing Carrey to parody the action genre much in the way Mike Myers (news) poked fun at James Bond movies in Austin Powers.
The subconscious creeping out through the fingers.
Posted by: RDB at October 23, 2003 2:23 PMSo true old boy. I still have friends who pine after Lindsay Wagner.
I am truly beginning to hate Jim Carrey now. I apologize on behalf of all Canadians for this man's career...and the guy who plays Austin Powers, Michael something or other.
Posted by: Steven Martinovich at October 23, 2003 3:00 PMMike Myers did a very smart, quite funny movie in '93: 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'. I highly recommend it.
It did about $300 at the box office.
So, naturally, Myers turned to sex and flatulence, and became a deca-millionaire.
Posted by: Michael Herdegen at October 24, 2003 9:53 AM