Raymond K. Nakamura

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Jim and Andy

This meta-meta movie or perhaps a post postmodern film fascinated me. It combined footage of the original Andy Kaufman, whom I had sort of heard of but never really watched, video that had been hidden away for twenty years by Jim Carrey of Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman in Man in the Moon which I never saw, as well as a current interview of a mountain man  bearded Jim Carrey reflecting on the film, his experience, and Andy Kaufman. Trippy. Carrey seemed to have been outrageously ambitious but apparently was not happy when he achieved his wildest dreams. Sad.