In my never so humble opinion I thought the movie about Andy was wonderful. It did not, however, come close in capturing him as did the book---Andy Kaufman Revealed, written by his friend and collaborator Bob Zmuda. You laugh and you cry when reading it.

Let us dispose of Jum Carrey right away--he was, in my opinion, really good in the film. He finally sublimated his usually annoying persona. I bet the French love hm as the do Jerry Lewis---birds of a feather.

I first saw Kaufman on a TV special so many years ago---Dick Van Dyke and he introduced him in the most wonderful put - on---Andy's forte. The nerd comes on and you wonder who the hell this is---then he IS Elvis. Amazing.

His put ons and his performance art is well covered in the film, but, again the book gets it even better.

My own feeling is that he belongs in that pantheon of the DIck Gregorys,Bruces,Pryors, and one other person that is rarely spoken of---except by cultists such as myself---a performance artist before the term came into use. THEODORE.

Now 94 yrs old--and I had the pleasure of interviewing him when he turned 90 and was still performing. He, like Andy K. put the audience on each night with bizarre tales---only 2 recordings in his life--extremly rare. One was ---just like Kaufman so many years later--a live midnight concert at Carnegie Hall.

But, as to Andy Kaufman. To my mind a comedy/performance artist genius--and those of you who have read the book will know that he hated the "Taxi" job. Did for the money---and Judd Hirsch despised him. Not so the others.

Bill Hahn