THE GUYS WITH THE GOLDEN GUTS: BY Jim Carrey

[cotton]

This is a interview in which Jim asks the questions and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer have to answer them. I got this from Interview magazine(10/03) a few weeks ago. Since it will not scan(And I have no life or a job<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> )I will type it. It's really cool.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>THE GUYS WITH THE GOLDEN GUTS: BY Jim Carrey Part 1</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Jim Carrey: Hello?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Brain Grazer: JC! It's me Bri!<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Hey, how are you?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Ron Howard: Hi<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Hey man! I have some questions to ask you guys.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG and RH: Okay<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: So, Daring superdous! Nice to be a part of that, Huh? Now how did you guys meet?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>RH: Well Brian was selling Tv movies and I had a producing and directing deal at NBC even though I was still acting on Happy Days. And one day I was waiting to go into this executive's office - her name was Deanne Barkley- and Brian walks in, and Deanne says "You guys are going to wind up running the business, so you might as well shake hands."<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: And it's true! (laughs) Speaking of Happy Days when is the big reunion? I think you should have one episode where you come in with your Oscar and go up to Fonzie and say " I was the coolest one!" (all laugh) But you don't have a vengeful bone in your body, do you?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>RH: Well I keep it quiet.(laughs)<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: How do you guys work? I mean, I've seen it in action a little bit, But tell me - is it a good cop - bad cop situation?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: It becomes that. It is sort of funny that you asked Ron if he's vengeful because I even I ask that of Ron - He doesn't seem to have any anger, whereas I am pretty loaded with it. Basically, with the good cop - bad cop, I try to be the good cop, But...<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: (Laughs)You have to be the bad cop</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: Yeah Ron is to good<br><br>RH: Once in a while he sends me out to be the bad cop. But I wind up with something that sounds like "Can't we all get along?" <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: If you stop smiling for a second, Ron, it's trouble. (Howard laughs) So how do you guys, as a company, Imagine Entertainment( The film and television production companywhere BG and RH serve as co - chairmen), make choices between art and commerce?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: what's funny is that Ron's and my processes are entirely different, although normally we end up deciding on the same thing. Our instincts gravitate toward the same taste.<br><br><br>There is more of this interview that I will put on here later. Jim asks some really funny questions. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p074.ezboard.com/bjcomessageboard.showUserPublicProfile?gid=cotton@jcomessageboard>cotton</A> at: 5/23/04 4:06 pm<br></i>

[vitaminZ]

Its great the beautiful minds come together and blend their styles for a project, multifaceted but a smooth design. <p></p><i></i>

[Belbee]

Ahhh that's so cool! Thanks for posting it Cotton! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[cotton]

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>THE GUYS WITH THE GOLDEN GUTS: BY Jim Carrey part 2</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Well you have a company to run, and I'm sure you must have to make a choice every once in a while for purely business reasons.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: Actually we don't. We did for a minute when we were a public company, but we haven't been public for about 10 years. Basically, our governing belief is that if you do something well, you make money. Ands that's worked for us for 20 years.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: I look at the Clint Eastwood model of filmmaking, and he does a couple movies for the crowd and a couple for himself, a couple for the crowd and a couple for himself. Do you ever have anything on the docket where you just go, " This is not what the audience wants to see, but I really want to do it."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>RH: I've done a few movies where thats what they would appear to be, but they wind up being commercial anyway. And as a result I have learned to trust those instincts. But the other thing that has happened in the last 5 or 6 years, Jim, and it's really great, is that we don't respond to that guilty voice of, "We are running a company - we have to try and be profitable," which used to scream in our ears. And it's something I just noticed one day. We didn't sit down and say, "Okay, time to make just the movies we care about."<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: So you guys have always kind of gone that way.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>RH: Well, we've moved in that direction, and the films have continued to be successful enough that we trust it more and more.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Describe what it was like when you won your Oscars for A Beautiful Mind</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: It was amazing because of when it happened in our lives. If it had happened when we were 25, it probably wouldn't have been so incredible, but because it happened almost 25 years later, it really was.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: After all the knocks?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: All the knocks, and because you have -<br><br>RH: - A couple of close calls along the way<br><br>BG: The evening broke into 2 distinct visuals. One was the moment when we actually got the Oscars - this was total elation, where one of your memories just comes alive. And then about 15 minutes later, Ron goes, "Ihave a stomach ache." and I had to reach in my pocket and hand him some tums.<br><br>RH: We were sitting there beforehand, and I thought I was handling the whole thing really well. And then our names were read. When I walked up onstage, for a minute it felt like it was a first take and I was playing the part of the guy who wins the award and I hadn't had a chance to rehearse. And as soon as it was over, I got hit with crippling stomach cramps and back pain, and I realized that I had been tied in knots for 4 hours.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Yeah, I hope that never happens to me. (All laugh) I can't deal with stomach problems. Are you closer to each other than you are to your wives?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>RH: My wife comes first.<br><br>BG: Oh, Ron, don't lie. (all laugh)<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Are either of you on antidepressents?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: No. Ron, are you?<br><br>RH: No, I am not. But getting back to your other question, I just wanted to finish and say that -<br><br>BG: We're close, like husbands and wives.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: I'm sure. You finish each others sentences and things like that, huh? (laughs) Now if you guys were Simon and Garfunkel, who would be Garfunkel and who would be Simon? (laughs) If you were Wham! which one of you would not be working right now? Ron, do you ever get jealous of Brian's hair?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>RH: You know what? That is a problem, actually. He's got a hell of a head of hair.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Don't you just want to reach out and flatten it? Like in a meeting?( Grazer laughs)</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>RH: That would cross one of those barriers that keep the partnership working.<br><br><br>There is more. I will finish it tommorrow.<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p074.ezboard.com/bjcomessageboard.showUserPublicProfile?gid=cotton@jcomessageboard>cotton</A> at: 5/24/04 9:27 pm<br></i>

[cotton]

Sorry I didn't have time to finish it yesterday. Here is the rest of it.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>THE GUYS WITH THE GOLDEN GUTS: BY Jim Carrey part 3</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: You guys seem to get along pretty well, but then again, I hardly see you together.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: Because Ron lives in Connecticut now.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: I know. So how does that work? How do you guys spend the day?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: Well, I go to an office in Beverly Hills -<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: - But I see you on the beach all the time, Brian. </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: Why'd you tell him that? (Carrey laughs) You've broken up our partnership!<br><br>RH: Hey, I am a results-oriented kind of guy. As long as things are flowing he can go to the beach all he wants.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: I have one more question then I will leave you guys alone. Though I don't know if I've asked the right questions because I didn't get into the whole communism thing. (Grazer and Howard laugh) Between Liar Liar and The Grinch, how much money have I made for you?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: I shouldn't count, but a lot.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: Would it kill you to write a check every once in a while?(Grazer and Howard laugh) Brian I have one more question for you and then I'll definitely leave you guys alone. I promise. You live in Malibu, down by the beach, right by me. I need to know: How much time do you devote everyday to getting the sand out of your crack? </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>BG: (laughs) On weekends it could be 20, 30 minutes.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>JC: You know, it was really a rhetorical question.(All laugh) </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>The end<br><br><br>BTW there wasn't any pics. of Jim in this mag.<br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p074.ezboard.com/bjcomessageboard.showUserPublicProfile?gid=cotton@jcomessageboard>cotton</A> at: 5/27/04 4:33 pm<br></i>

[cableclair]

Thanks so much! that was fun to read :-D <p>cableclair<br><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.soiledmypants.com">www.soiledmypants.com</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><-- my site<br>Failure isn't failure unless you give up...</p><i></i>

[CinnamonGirl]

Thanks for taking the time to type all of that out. It was a great read!! <p></p><i></i>