“Jim Carrey in the book represents that.
. But at some point, the team tries to keep the star in a box.Social media instilled a desire and obsession of relevance in people, a hope that strangers will hit the follow or subscribe button, Carrey says. He was such a light,” he says. Very few people understand the “extraordinary event” of everyone knowing who you are at all times, Carrey says.He’d filled with the love of the crowd as the blockbuster rolled out and on, opening in London, Moscow, Berlin. Others just gasped.
Moderated by: MITCHELL KAPLAN . So begins a satirical adventure in which Carrey plumbs the chasms of Hollywood’s self-obsessed culture.
. A table for one hundred had been set by the president of the Italian republic. These are edited excerpts from that conversation.At the start of the novel “Memoirs and Misinformation,” we find Carrey, its protagonist, in the midst of an existential crisis, crushed by self-doubt and confined to his Los Angeles home, where he subsists on a diet of Netflix, YouTube and TMZ. “And I think we ended up composing an inferno.”Instead the novel, written with Dana Vachon, centers around a character named Jim Carrey, a successful comedian who deals with wildfires and the possibility of an apocalypse on his quest for relevance and artistic recognition. But like fictional Jim Carrey, real-life Carrey has also struggled with the idea of irrelevance at times.In 1997, Carrey went on the Oprah Winfrey Show and talked about how he would visualize his future.
She moved toward him like a heat-seeking credenza, and something in the boldness of her spirit swayed Jim Carrey.“[Dangerfield] was such a strong influence. “We sell the world a character and we make them believe it's a constant — and no character can be a constant. It is a fictional narrative that relies on facts from the life of its celebrity co-author — and on his access to a world of maximum privilege and alienation — to tell a story that its creators believe is especially timely.Speaking together over Zoom, Carrey and Vachon talked about the making of “Memoirs and Misinformation,” the joys of playing on the boundary between fact and fiction, and how they expect Tom Cruise will react to it. I didn't expect to spend time today crying while reading a passage in Jim Carrey's new novel MEMOIRS AND MISINFORMATION in which Carrey, a character in his own book, is reunited with his mentor Rodney Dangerfield when the late comedian's "essence" is resurrected as a CGI rhinoceros in a big-budget Hollywood adaptation of HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS. Jim Carrey’s new book — “Memoirs and Misinformation” — is anything but a typical memoir. And the Camorra enforcer who had, that week, put two bodies in the Tiber. You can’t create great art, just living blissed out on the surface.” Carrey let their concern build before bouncing up like a coil and giving every subsequent interview with one eye crossed.A world before, he’d starred in a major summer spectacle, a movie that had effortlessly cruised to a $220 million global box office, with thirty-five percent of this fortune marked for Carrey personally, flooding into his financial reservoirs from distribution territories stretching, as was said, “from Tuscaloo to Timbuktu.” That the film was, even by his own estimation, firmly in his second tier only made its success sweeter: the greater the impunity, the closer to God.Because of his personal relationship with Dangerfield, Carrey says his emotions came through even as the duo tried to address serious themes with absurdism.“Ultimate loneliness is this hyper-connectedness, but we never really get to know the real people because they're forming themselves by the likes of others,” Carrey says. Some lunged to help the star. See all books authored by Jim Carrey, including How Roland Rolls, and Memoirs and Misinformation, and more on ThriftBooks.com. The experience of writing a novel gave him a best friend and brought his mind to unforeseen places, he says.When Carrey and Vachon met, Carrey had just completed a painting of Malibu in flames. His successes as an actor, in projects both comedic and dramatic, are distant objects in the rearview mirror, and now he is fixated on his own inevitable demise and the eventual end of the universe.For Vachon, working on the novel gave him a new perspective on the nature of stardom, as well as a greater appreciation for Carrey in all his complexities.Jim Carrey is not doing well at all.As Carrey explained in an interview earlier this month, “It’s the end of the world, and we have the perfect book for it.”The actor’s novel, “Memoirs and Misinformation,” written with Dana Vachon, uses details from Carrey’s life and career to tell a fictional tale of apocalypse and rebirth in Hollywood.“It was a journey into forbidden realms of stardom and the wages of great artistry,” Vachon said.