Questions tagged [man-on-the-moon]
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What's the meaning of the performance of I Will Survive at the end of Man On The Moon?
Man On The Moon is the story of the career of Andy Kaufman.
One of the personas that Andy sometimes adopted was Tony Clifton, an obnoxious and terrible lounge singer. Tony is an alter-ego for Andy. In ...
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Why is the biography of comedian Andy Kaufman titled "Man on the Moon"?
From seeing the title Man on the Moon, I thought the movie was going to be related to the Earth's Moon like Apollo 13.
But the movie is a biography / comedy-drama.
Why does the movie have this title?...
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Why did Michael Richards refuse to portray himself?
In the 1999 film "Man on the Moon" starring Jim Carrey as the infamous comic Andy Kaufman, the movie takes great pains to recreate specific points in Kaufman's life. In a somewhat unorthodox fashion, ...