WAYNE CRAWFORD PLAYS 'JAKE SPEED' STARRING KAREN KOPINS

<p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHGzONR7OOd6ey7V_4KMaMZyF0o7Xc34uw_0MxOAw4m7ILJgH9VZfwwIcswBRpupnOybPTO7KvhOi_z7XDSXIEY0kaK4sxNSvO7AmteVx303PowH-e0X2tb0SLH6qhQfXedX9v6F32ELQf6McOvUPSZXqADFGbJxFx53ThaiBUFun46zFSAJBbKw1XWpY/s1996/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-08%20at%209.52.34%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1142" data-original-width="1996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHGzONR7OOd6ey7V_4KMaMZyF0o7Xc34uw_0MxOAw4m7ILJgH9VZfwwIcswBRpupnOybPTO7KvhOi_z7XDSXIEY0kaK4sxNSvO7AmteVx303PowH-e0X2tb0SLH6qhQfXedX9v6F32ELQf6McOvUPSZXqADFGbJxFx53ThaiBUFun46zFSAJBbKw1XWpY/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-08%20at%209.52.34%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: JAKE SPEED Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The plot of ROMANCING THE STONE involves a mousy female harlequin-style novelist living sad and single in Manhattan who, after her pretty, footloose blond sister is kidnapped, goes on an action-packed trip with a flawed yet dashing, handsome maverick who looks like her fictional hero, but only in silhouette...<br> <br>Up close, what New Yorker Karen Kopins (Jim Carrey's girl in ONCE BITTEN) sees in supposed paperback icon JAKE SPEED, played by writer/producer Wayne Crawford (along with VALLEY GIRL partner Andrew Lane), is a scruffy con man: he and his partner, Dennis Christopher's Desmond, tricked her into thinking they could find her kidnapped blond sister: a very familiar plot-line only a year following the Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner smash hit...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span></span></p>

action, adventure, comedy, dennis christopher, eighties, john hurt, karen kopins, kidnapping, wayne crawford

WAYNE CRAWFORD PLAYS 'JAKE SPEED' STARRING KAREN KOPINS

Title: JAKE SPEED Year: 1986 Rating: ***1/2 The plot of ROMANCING THE STONE involves a mousy female harlequin-style novelist living sad and...

JIM CARREY & KAREN KOPINS IN 'ONCE BITTEN' WITH LAUREN HUTTON

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdpzDuHnya0wcECULCDsBc4L_Up7zLJG4wZ-I1btRRO3Wu3rnO-HRDe2NItQnjpr-qU-PqHfKZKegeq_yWBWSMJOXuzhL1SPtgcSiujBXp8vRgi3c5bdyDkF3cCjQCvsn7ZWxtav14fiQiWHOESo6Bgi7WvTB45tjAvXXwJ6AsYHsy1J5t-XrqgLei6Cv/s1996/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-09%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1996" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdpzDuHnya0wcECULCDsBc4L_Up7zLJG4wZ-I1btRRO3Wu3rnO-HRDe2NItQnjpr-qU-PqHfKZKegeq_yWBWSMJOXuzhL1SPtgcSiujBXp8vRgi3c5bdyDkF3cCjQCvsn7ZWxtav14fiQiWHOESo6Bgi7WvTB45tjAvXXwJ6AsYHsy1J5t-XrqgLei6Cv/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202023-07-09%20at%201.35.44%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Karen Kopins and Jim Carrey in ONCE BITTEN Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Bizarre that the future highest paid comic actor (at the time a hyperactive standup comedian) with the talents to go insanely overboard with zany expressions and physical zaniness, would actually consecutively headline a TV-series and motion picture as the straight man passively watching the goofiness occur around him...<br></p><p></p><p>In 1984, after THE DUCK FACTORY was cancelled, Jim Carrey got his big screen debut in ONCE BITTEN (which gained a cult following on cable television): cleverly stretching a then-timely joke that goes along with while blending into the sex-comedy template: in that four-hundred-year-old vampire Lauren Hutton could never find a modern day virgin to remain youthful... ironic since those comedies are about shy boys trying desperately to lose theirs'...</p><span></span>

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JIM CARREY & KAREN KOPINS IN 'ONCE BITTEN' WITH LAUREN HUTTON

Karen Kopins and Jim Carrey in ONCE BITTEN Year: 1985 Rating: ***1/2 Bizarre that the future highest paid comic actor (at the time a hyperac...