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The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 53

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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53
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1999 C17 ARTS THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Carrey: Comic roles within comic If roles Aim Vof ic the film that is so unhip that it simply point is part of that same self-referential hall of mirrors that we call popular culture. Tonv Clifton is the comic ex has to be intentional. 1 his leads to a confrontation on the David Letterman show, another irony-within-an-irony scene in Man on the Moon, given that Letterman is also a performer who seems to be playing at being what he is rather than actually being it. Man on the Moon is energized by Jim Carrey's brilliant impersonation of the comedian. But a funny thing happens as the film goes on.

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