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Back To Making Ace Ventura Movies, I Guess
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Simple topic: Is Jim Carrey taking a principled stand or just grandstanding when he refuses to promote "Kick-Ass 2" because it's violent? After all, a) there's yet to be evidence that movie violence has any correlation to real violence, b) Sandy Hook, which he says was the trigger (no pun intended) for his conversion, was the result of a mentally ill gunman and not movies, and c) it's throwing his fellow actors, the writer, the director, and the studio under the bus. In this column, Chicago Sun-Times critic and WLS host Richard Roeper calls Carrey out for grandstanding and notes that the child actresses who took sexually charged or violent roles, like Chloe Grace Moretz in "Kick-Ass," Brooke Shields in "Pretty Baby," and Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver," turned out way, way better than Amanda Bynes, Miley Cyrus, and Lindsay Lohan, who took sweet, innocent roles in non-violent movies. (Chicago Sun-Times)
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