Tony Clifton: Shot to promote the Jim Carrey biopic of Andy Kaufman Man in the Moon.
Mr. Clifton wanted to run a advertisement in Variety during ‘Women in Film’ week. The banner of the ad was to read, “Thanks for the Mammories.”
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The ad was not approved to run at the time and Mr. Clifton was extremely upset. Ultimately however, Clifton managed to place the add in a Variety issue honoring the then departing Chris Albrecht from HBO. Albrecht was the Hollywood executive who transformed HBO into a cable TV powerhouse and made sure ‘Comic Relief’ had a home at HBO, raising millions of dollars each year it aired for the homeless in America.
