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Andy Kaufman was a acquired taste and not for everyone.He was made for the 70's and will always be remembered both fondly by some, and as a "pet rock"craze by others.I have a family connection from Great Neck LI,though I never met him,and choose to remember him as something like a comet,Here as a big flash,and then gone.This film was released in 1999 and runs 118 minutes and Andy died in 1984 so ,many people from his career appear as themselves,but not all.Four actors must be singled out.Danny DeVito as George Shapiro his manager.Courtney Love as Lynne Marguiles ,Andy's girl.Paul Giamatti as Bob Zmuda his writer.Finally Jim Carrey as Andy, nails his quirks as close as another can.Andy was "different"in the way he put YOU on and you had to laugh for falling for it.His only real great mainstream act was a dead on Elvis impression,but then even THAT was a put on in the sense that who can't do a great Elvis if they had a shred of talent?? See the film "3000 miles to Graceland"which I reviewed to prove that point.
No Andy's thing was the put on.What finally polarized the public on him was wrestling.First he wrestled women in the most chauvinistic ways.Then a real male wrestler with a fake injury and threat of lawsuits for credibility.But as he was dying and desperately trying any cure for Cancer he could find,he traveled to the Philippines for"Physic surgery"and had to laugh when he witnessed that it was a fake and thus a "joke"on him.
Till his death,many though cancer was another joke on THEM.
Andy had to be remembered and this film is as fair as can be to show what he was and then you can decide was he a talent or a fake.Trailer URL follows the pix.
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