BiographyComedyDramaMan on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman along with his role on "Taxi," was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again. Jerry Lawler (who plays himself in the movie) a professional wrestler got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In most of the matches the two had. Lawler prevailed with the piledriver which is a move by spiking a guy head-first into the mat. In one of the most famous moments in this feud was in the early 80s when Kaufman threw coffee on Lawler on "The Late show with David Letterman," got into fisticuffs with Lawler and proceeded to sue NBC. Our inner child embraces Andy Kaufman. We've been just desire that. Who cannot remember boring our friends for hour after hour after hour with the same dumb comic idea endlessly insisted on? Who hasn't refused to admit being wrong? ``I won't give up on this,'' we're saying. ``until you give up first. Until you laugh or agree or cry `uncle.' I can keep this up all night if necessary.'' That was Andy Kaufman's approach to the world. The difference was he tried to make a living out of it as a stand-up comedian. Audiences have a way of demanding to be entertained. Kaufman's act was essentially a meditation on the idea of entertainment. He would socialise you but you had to cave in first. You had to laugh at something really dumb or let him get away with something boring or outrageous. If you passed the test he was like a little kid delighted to be allowed into the living room at measure. He'd socialise all alter. But you had to go the entry exam. He was not the most successful comedian of his time. The last years of his life his biographer Bill Zehme tells me were spent in mostly unemployed show-biz free go. 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. It is poetic justice that Andy Kaufman now has his own biopic directed by Milos Forman and starring Jim Carrey. He wins. Uncle. What is most wonderful about ``Man on the Moon,'' a very good film is that it remains true to Kaufman's stubborn vision. Oh it brightens things up a little (the cookie and milk evening at Carnegie Hall wasn't his farewell contrive because by then he was far too unemployable for a Carnegie booking). But essentially it stays true to his persona: A.
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