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Jim Carrey: More Than Just a Funny Guy

by allen85255 | April 12, 2008 at 02:21 pm | 258 views | add comment

Jim Carrey is at his best in an old made-for-TV movie, "Doing Time on Maple Drive." If it's ever on TV, it's worth watching or recording. If I am not mistaken, it was directed by Ken Olin of "thirtysomething" fame.

JIM CARREY
Today, Jim Carrey commands as much as $20 million per film, but when he was 15, his father lost his job. Carrey took after-school jobs as a security guard and janitor at a tire factory outside Toronto to help his family get by.

His salvation? Visiting local comedy clubs.

"My mother dressed me in a polyester suit, and I got booed off the stage, and I didn't go back for two years. But then when I went back, I was gangbusters," he told Larry King in 2001.