Lost In The Funhouse: The Life And Mind Of Andy Kaufman (2001) - Plot & Excerpts
biographies are generally straight forward research bits. not so much here. takes a while to get inside the voice, but he genuinely tries to get as close to kaufman's head as possible. makes kaufman an interesting construct, allows you to hate and love him, shifts time forward and backward to the point where you're not sure where you are in the timeline...and ultimately i shed some subway tears as he recounted his death. still leaves me with questions: how did people not like tony clifton (brilliant)? and the wrestling (brillianter)? those bits are amazing. like all good bios, there's plenty to be unsure about: the interview with elayne boosler on his tv show was/is painful. the fact that he largely played the same material from age 14 to 34 (foreign man, mighty mouse, elvis, crying man, old macdonald) is a bit sad. (though sadder perhaps is that this wouldn't fly today. the internet would kill him, that is if his frequent stays in brothels didn't run him into a case of the HIV.) it would have been great to see andy kaufman have to age as a performer. he found characters to voice all his innocence and all his petulance, and it doesn't seem like anyone, including kaufman himself could resolve it all in one being.
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