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EBENEZER SCROOGE: that bitter miser with contempt for Yuletide goodwill. A character so ingrained in our culture that we barely do Christmas without him.

JIM CARREY reckons his family will get the shock of their lives when they see him as Ebenezer Scrooge in Disney's A Christmas Carol.

NATASCHA McElhone could be forgiven for taking it easy this year. After all, The Truman Show star is still coming to terms with the tragic death of her surgeon husband, Martin Kelly, in May of last year after he suffered a massive and totally unexpected heart attack at their London home while McElhone was filming in the US.

The irrepressible Jim Carrey is known for his high-energy on-screen persona. So how, asks Rob Driscoll, did he react to taking the back seat behind the very latest in computer animation technology? WHEN Jim Carrey caught the first glimpse of his screen image as grumpy old miser Ebenezer Scrooge in Disney's new animated version of A Christmas Carol, ...

Jim Carrey is launching a website to let fans into his eccentric subconscious. The Truman Show star plans to update followers with random thoughts, quirky topics and comedy skits on JimCarrey.com, which hits cyberspace on Thursday .

Jim Carrey embarked on a nationwide train tour to promote his new film A Christmas Carol , but from the looks of these photos, he must have been stowed away in a box car the whole time with other hobos living off vermin he killed with his giant golden scissors.

Jim Carrey is launching a website to let fans into his eccentric subconscious. The Truman Show star plans to update followers with random thoughts, quirky topics and comedy skits on JimCarrey.com, which hits cyberspace on Thursday .

But this Wednesday, I'll be speaking at the Palm Springs International Film Society as part of its "Daring Debuts" series, which celebrates the first films of esteemed directors.

Caption: Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy 2009 UCLA Department of Neurosurgery's Visionary Ball held at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Hills, California .... JIM CARREY is launching a website to let fans into his eccentric subconscious.

STAR Wars, Sherlock Holmes and the next 10 films in our Top 100, in the movie guide that takes the morning train.

The peaceful town of Seaside, located on Florida's Gulf Coast, is a nice place to get away.

Bill Murray is a rarity. He's one of the few comedy actors who has successfully embraced a new role as an independent, sometimes dramatic actor.

The weather hasn't been ideal, but the shoot for "What's Wrong with Virginia?" has been going smoothly regardless.

Don't know about you, but I'm creeped out by the cover of Stephen King's latest, "Under the Dome." Something tells me this won't be as cute as Jim Carrey's "The Truman Show." The publisher's website, which offers an excerpt, describes the book this way: "On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably ...

The new Ricky Gervais film, "The Invention of Lying," postulates a world in which no one has ever told a lie.

What ails our civilization? A creeping malaise, some say. An intangible decay of moral fibre.

Producers Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz have used their own money to acquire screen rights to "The Host," the first adult novel written by Stephenie Meyer, author of the "Twilight" series.

The only personal note in any of the posts was one with the headline "Another day in the Truman Show AKA my life!" The entire content of the post was an image of the poster for the 1998 Jim Carrey movie "The Truman Show," which was about a man who is unaware that his entire life has been constructed for a television show.

In the motion picture business, movies are brought from the filmmakers to the people by two separate yet equally important groups: the producers and sales agents who sell the rights for the film in the various regions of the world, and the distributors who bring the prints of the movie to theatres.

The ultimate late-bloomer, Philip Baker Hall is one of the few actors ever to achieve Hollywood stardom after the age of 60.