Carrey is as big a star as Hollywood has right now, and yet fairly early in "Man on the Moon,'' we forget who is playing Kaufman and get involved in what is happening to him. The film has a heroic performance from Jim Carrey, who successfully disappears inside the character of Andy Kaufman. When something is not working in Kaufman's act, it's not working in the movie, either, and it's not funny, it's painful. The movie doesn't turn him into a sweet, misunderstood guy. But essentially it stays true to his persona: A guy who would test you, fool you, lie to you, deceive you and stage elaborate deceptions, put-ons and hoaxes. Oh, it brightens things up a little (the cookie and milk evening at Carnegie Hall wasn't his farewell concert, because by then he was far too unemployable for a Carnegie booking). What is most wonderful about "Man on the Moon,'' a very good film, is that it remains true to Kaufman's stubborn vision. It is poetic justice that Andy Kaufman now has his own biopic, directed by Milos Forman and starring Jim Carrey. But Kaufman enjoyed that, too: He was fascinated by the relationship between entertainer and audience, which is never more sincere than when the entertainer is hated.
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The last years of his life, his biographer Bill Zehme tells me, were spent in mostly unemployed show-biz free fall.
He was not the most successful comedian of his time.
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