European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                New line Cinema Jim Carrey portrays Stanley i kiss who rescues Tina Carlyle played by Cameron Diaz in the  and hard sides of an unmasked Carre Yby Bernard Weinraub new York times in Carrey removes a Check for $10 million from his Wallet. It says a for acting services rendered by thanksgiving 1995.�?� its a joke. The Star of the hit the mask playing at military movie Heaters wrote it to himself years ago when he was unknown barely eking out a living and seized with fantasies of earning a ton of Money. Actually he shortchanged himself. Carreyn a Price is now $7 million per film and he plans to make two a year. A a it a pretty crazy a said Carrey widening his eyes and grinning slyly. A it is ridiculous. In a trying to take it Day by  Day by Day Carrey seems in an Ever upward spiral in last Winters surprisingly successful Ace Ventura pet detective he proved himself an agile physically Broad and unpredictably Lunatic comic with hints of Jerry Lewis and Robin Williams. With that one movie Carrey became a bankable Star with a Large audience mostly teen agers. He Calls his style a Fred Astaire on  a he May have arrived at major stardom All of a sudden but it took him a decade to get there. The Canadian born Star had developed a reputation on the los Angeles comedy club circuit for his impersonations Anil manic humor. More recently his reputation grew on television in the three years that he played As lie put it a the Token White Guy in in living color Quot the often wickedly funny Fox television show with a mostly Black cast. As Blunt and shrewd about himself As he is funny Carrey tried to describe his comic sensibility. A a there san Edge a danger to what i do a he said Inari interview in Hollywood. A and an anger. Even the Guys i play Nice Guys put their foot Down. People Are attracted to  a in the mask which received mixed reviews car Ray plays Stanley i kiss a Walter Mitty Type who a treated terribly by Bosses women even his dog. He accidentally finds an ancient mask that transforms him into a crime  said that too Many gifted comedians he knows seem intimidated by movie cameras. A so Many times in be seen comics onstage and they re great they re on fire a he said. A then they get a Chance to act and they re afraid. They done to do what they do onstage. A a in be never had any trouble being in front of a camera. I used to get into arguments with my acting coach. He told me if i can to do something in front of my family in front of the people i love then ill never be Able to pull it off in front of a camera. And i told him he was absolutely wrong. There Are Many things i could do before a camera that i can to do before my family. When the camera goes on hey desperation Steps in. You better do something  recently the camera has been rolling a lot for Carrey whose exploding salary has stirred astonishment even in Hollywood. He received $350,000 for Ace Ventura and an additional $100,000 for the mask. For his next comedy dumb and dumber a a it a about two Guys. Guess which part i play Ahe will receive $7 million. And he has at least three other movies lined up soon after that including the Choice role of the riddler in Batman forever. Seated in a suite on the top floor of a hotel near Beverly Hills the 32-year-old performer said he was trying to keep control Over his life but that it was hard. Though Many of his fantasies about Fame and Money have come True Success has come at a Price. Success has meant buying a Home in the Tony Brentwood Section of los Angeles which is famous As the neighbourhood of the killings in the . Simp. Son Case. A. A. A a. But he is also in the midst of a divorce from his wife Melissa Womer an actress. They have a 6-year-old daughter who lives with him part of the time. A a it a so cliched a he said of the split up. A but there have got to be reasons for cliches. A look in a a hard Guy to live with. In a like a caged animal. In a up All night walking around the living room. Its hard for me to come Down from what i do. Its like being an astronaut. You re on the Moon All Day and then at night you go Home and have to take the garbage  though his adolescent years in hardscrabble neighbourhoods in the Toronto area weren to exactly the stuff of comedy Carrey is hilariously and often unprintable candid in talking about them. His father Percy was a professional musician who sold his saxophone to pay his wife a Hospital Bills. He wound up As an accountant and janitor. For a while the family lived in a Volkswagen camper and a tent. From the third Grade on the comedian said he started making Odd faces for hours in front of the Mirror talking to himself writing poetry and entertaining the family with impressions of neighbors As Well As of television stars. At 19, Carrey went to los Angeles to try the comedy clubs. He lived in cheap motels on Sunset Boulevard. A it was like a Complete other world a he said a i watched the hookers walk up and Down. It was like i had walked into some bizarre a rated movie. It freaked me  his loopy impressions at los Angeles clubs soon caught the attention of Sam Kinison and Rodney Dangerfield. He began working on television had Small parts in movies like Earth girls Are easy and Peggy sue got married and even appeared in several acclaimed dramatic roles like the alcoholic son in the Fox television movie doing time on Maple drive. But performing As a comedian consumed him. Did he Ever believe head hit the Jackpot so soon a i done to know a he said after a pause. A i always believed in miracles. That a Why i wrote that Check to myself a new Une Cinema the masked Carrey a even the Guys i play Nice Guys put their foot Down. People Are attracted to  sunday september 11, 1994