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Potential applications range from a flexible light guide for delivering laser light to a specific internal organ, to new devices for optical communications, to coatings for windows that efficiently reflect heat while being transparent.įink’s mirror combines the best property of the everyday metallic mirror–its ability to reflect light from all directions–with those of highly specialized dielectric mirrors, widely used in photonics. The “perfect mirror” Yoel Fink invented last year as a graduate student at MIT could mean radical new ways of directing and manipulating light. Julie & Julia this is not, and it’s perhaps that enigma that leaves us longing for a little more, much like the best Andy Kaufman skits.It’s an invention that forces you to rethink one of man’s most basic tools: the mirror.
Told in a style that’s fairly straight-forward and almost dry compared to Marguiles’ footage, Jim & Andy resists becoming a biopic of either man - or at least not a definitive one even as it compares and contrasts the careers, life, and times of both men who both proved to be enigmas. Perhaps this is a moment where Kaufman instead channels Carrey, rather than the other way around.
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Everyone, including Heff, assumes he’s Carrey until the real Carrey, breaking free from Kaufman, shows us. There’s also a good deal of mischief involving Tony Clifton, including one hilarious passage where Zmuda is sent to pitch hit for him at the Playboy mansion. Looking to his father for approval, the result is cathartic as the family experiences a second chance.
Carrey’s challenging of Kaufman also leads to unexpected exchanges with both actor Gerry Becker, playing father Stanley Kaufman, and the real Stanley Kaufman, who arrives on set to advise. Where the film touches a nerve is when Kaufman’s real life family arrives on set to pay Carrey a visit, leading to tender moments and an awful lot of hugging.
You know the usual photo: it usually involves a filmmaker, flanked by his star, pointing in some direction, pretending to work. Zmuda and Kaufman’s former girlfriend filmmaker Lynne Marguiles (played in the feature film by Courtney Love) were hired by Carrey to document the production as an alternative EPK, eschewing the fake “recreations” EPKs tend to rely upon. He’d crash cars, harass his director and, in collaboration with Bob Zmuda, arrive flanked by the Hells Angels. Carrey, channeling Kaufman, would arrive late in the make-up trailer, bag over his head, blasting music, drinking and smoking… and the days he was Tony Clifton, watch out. Hidden away for twenty years to protect Carrey and his likable image, the footage is a fascinating master class in performance, the kind of thing that might not fly today in light of revelations of harassment. Writing a $10 million dollar check to himself years before that he can now cash, he heavily courts a reluctant Forman all while removing “Jim Carrey” from planet Earth to do so as he fully embodies Kaufman. Hot off a triple success of broad comedies - Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber - the actor seeks meaning in his life in the wake of his father’s death. Told through archival footage of both Andy Kaufman’s performances and Jim Carrey in character throughout the shoot of Man on the Moon (as Andy and his evil alternative persona lounge singer Tony Clifton), director Chris Smith frames the footage with a new interview with Carrey, bearded and reflexive about a dark period in his life. Reflecting on a production that might have been just a little more interesting than the excellent film they were making, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton is the hilarious and occasionally moving portrait of Jim Carrey’s time making Milos Forman’s 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on The Moon.
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