Of course, he was right on the money. Carrey gave a career-best turn in The Truman Show, won a Golden Globe despite being snubbed by the Academy in the ‘Best Actor’ race, and quickly consigned The ...

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Consider that the comic superstar of the 1980s was Eddie Murphy, who often turned his vehicles into de facto one-man shows; here now was a gangly Caucasian goon (from In Living Color, no less ...