Article: To tell the truth // Jim Carrey plays fast and loose as he warms up for `Liar Liar'

LOS ANGELES True or false: Jim Carrey is the love child of Jerry Lewis and Phyllis Diller. He is having a wild fling with Madonna. He is running for president in the year 2000.

And now for the real shocking news about America's premier comic. He is really . . . a woman!

OK, they're all lies. But Carrey does star as a compulsive fibber in "Liar Liar" (opening Friday at Chicago area theaters), and we asked him to make up some really juicy untruths about himself. Now his face falls into total despair, fake tears well in his eyes, and, clutching his stomach, he cries, "I'm pregnant!" This much is true: Liar, liar, Jim Carrey's career is on fire. In his new film he plays a father who ...

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