1: The year was 1990. Jim Carrey was a struggling young comic.

Sitting in his car high up in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the lights of Los Angeles, he took out his checkbook and wrote himself a check for $10 million. He dated it five years in the future: November 1995. In the notation, he wrote, “For acting services rendered.”  

Five years later, just before Thanksgiving of 1995, he … continue reading

Jim Carrey was struggling.  

It was 1985. Three years earlier he had made the trek from his home in Canada to Los Angeles. His career as a comedian was going nowhere. He was broke and depressed.  

One night while sitting in his old Toyota looking out over the Hollywood Hills, he took out his checkbook and wrote himself a check for $10 million. For “acting services rendered,” he wrote on the memo line.  … continue reading