She had a recurring role as Mike Hammer's secretary Velda in the television series Mike Hammer, Private Eye and made guest appearances on such shows as ER, Felicity, Seinfeld, V.I.P., Murphy Brown, Malcolm in the Middle and Nash Bridges. In the late-1990s, she transitioned from erotic thrillers into a series of roles on mainstream network television and films, including action, sci-fi and horror genres. Entertainment Weekly referred to Whirry and Hippolyte as "the Dietrich and Von Sternberg of the soft-core set" Other films at the time included Private Obsession and Playback, a Playboy production. She starred in Gregory Hippolyte's productions of Animal Instincts I and II, Body of Influence, and Mirror Images II. She thereafter began to work in a number of direct-to-video erotic B-movies and unrated thrillers, concurrent with Tanya Roberts, Maria Ford, and Shannon Tweed who appeared in the same kinds of films at the time. Her first film role was in the action film Out for Justice starring Steven Seagal. While attempting to establish her career in New York, Whirry worked as a bartender, took a number of small bit roles and appeared in a commercial for FedEx the latter work finally allowed her to join the Screen Actors Guild.
So, Best Chocolate Ice Cream Gag?Ī four pack of Two-Timers, plus the Farrellys entering the Directors wing, following their helming of the Red Sox classic Fever Pitch back at #313 – Carrey for Liar, Liar, Zellweger’s voice work in #385 Bee Movie (the sixth Bee Movie cast member in the Two-Timers), Lenny Clarke – Boston comic legend – also on Fever Pitch, and Richard Jenkins from #292’s Cabin in the Woods.A native from Green Lake, Wisconsin, where she was the salutatorian of her 1983 high school graduating class, in 1985 Whirry was accepted to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, one of only 365 accepted out of 3,000 applicants and one of only 65 to graduate the 2-year program. It’s a crass masterpiece of film editing.
No awards! But honestly, this movie features one of the great comedic jump edits ever – as Hank drops trou to do his business on his neighbors lawn (after much complaining about the neighbor’s dog doing the same), the movie cuts right to soft serve chocolate ice cream being dispensed into a cone. If any one is still watching 2000-ish movies in 2040.
I feel like twenty years from – outside of Carrey’s solid forays into dramedy in this later stretch – #351 Liar, Liar and Me, Myself, and Irene will be the ones that last. I liked his early stuff when I was 14, too, but come on, when’s the last time you threw on Ace Ventura or The Mask just for the hell of it? Those things are not holding up well. I mean, the movie’s ridiculous, and there’s more than a little comedic pseudo-rape going on, depending on how you view those multiple personality antics, but pound-for-pound this still has more and better jokes than virtually any Carrey film of the era. And as grown men, his kids have the best lines in the movie – with genius inherited from their father, they spout “Enrico Fermi’d roll over in his motherfucking grave if he heard that stupid shit,” “I can’t figure out the atomic mass of this motherfuckin’ deuteron!” and “You think polypeptide’s a motherfuckin’ toothpaste!” Anthony Anderson, Jamal Mixon, and Mongo Brownlee – my MVPs of this movie. And yes, Hank is a lot, but the movie manages to parcel him out well, so as not to overwhelm the audience with that intensity – it would almost certainly have led to weariness, and jokes not really landing.īut my favorite part of this movie has always been his sons – at the beginning of the movie, we see his wife run off with a black genius dwarf limo driver, Shonte (played by the always great Tony Cox), but not before leaving Charlie with the triplets he fully convinces himself are his, biologically: Jamal, Lee Harvey, and Shonte Jr. Carrey is never better than in his rampant split personality portrayal of good-guy cop Charlie Baileygates and his psychotic alter ego Hank. The second and last of the all-out comedies of Jim Carrey to appear on this list, Me, Myself, and Irene came along mid-college for me, and solidly connected, with its brand of hyper-aggressive vulgarity and over-the-top absurdism. Starring Jim Carrey (x2), Renee Zellweger (x2), Robert Forster, Chris Cooper, Anthony Anderson, Jerod Mixon, Tony Cox, Richard Jenkins (x2), Mongo Brownlee, Traylor Howard, Anna Kournikova, Shannon Whirry, Cam Neely, Lenny Clarke (x2), Googy Gress Today! He may have advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage, but he’s a very gentle person –