* Truman Burbank, the main ( fictional ) character in The Truman Show.

The cast includes Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, as well as Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris and Natascha McElhone.

* Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank: Chosen out of five unwanted pregnancies and the first child to be legally adopted by a corporation, he is unaware that his daily life is broadcast 24 hours a day around the world.

The scene where Truman declares " this planet Trumania of the Burbank galaxy " to the bathroom mirror was Carrey's idea.

The film's premise, a 24-hour television broadcast called " The Truman Show " that focuses on the life of Truman Burbank, uses faux product placement.

* Truman Burbank, fictional character in the film The Truman Show

Fictional examples of aptronyms include Mr. Talkative and Mr. Worldly Wiseman in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 ), Truman Burbank ( true-man ), the lead character in the 1998 film The Truman Show, the principal cast of the Mr. Men ( 1971 ), and all the characters in Marc Blitzstein's 1937 play The Cradle Will Rock.

* The Truman Show ( 1998 ) is a film about a man ( Jim Carrey ) who discovers that his entire life is being staged and filmed for a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show.

The first council was ; James Tornow, Mayor, Truman Qualls, Don Freeman, Willis Freeman, Jim Steven and council members.

The film The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey had a similar plot as well.

* The Truman Show, a comedy movie starring Jim Carrey

Although she has made relatively few films, her most successful to date has been 1998's The Truman Show with Jim Carrey.

It launched in 1983 with a line-up of creators including Frank Brunner, Mike Grell, Howard Chaykin, Joe Staton, Steven Grant, Timothy Truman, and Jim Starlin.

Popular vacation destinations include Pensacola Beach, Gulf Breeze, Navarre Beach, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, WaterColor, Panama City Beach, Destin, and Seaside, a planned community whose iconic pastel-paint and tin-roof construction was made famous in the Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show, filmed in the area from 1996-1997.

** Jim Carrey-The Truman Show

Artists who worked on the series included Timothy Truman, Sam Grainger, Tom Mandrake, Jim McDermott, Steve Pugh, Tom Sutton, Martin Thomas, and Flint Henry.

Jim Carrey – The Truman Show

Salisbury states that Truman attempted " to give Jim Pendergast control of business.

Carrey received critical acclaim for his chameleonic performance and won a Golden Globe — his second win in a row after receiving an award for The Truman Show previously.

Carrey, who is normally paid $ 20 million per film, agreed to do The Truman Show for $ 12 million.

The film was also noted for its similarities to the Australian telemovie The Plumber ( 1979 ), which was written and directed by Peter Weir, who would later direct Carrey in The Truman Show ( 1998 ).

Without hesitation, Truman picked Marshall, adding " I don't think in this age in which I have lived, that there has been a man who has been a greater administrator ; a man with a knowledge of military affairs equal to General Marshall.

Harry Randall Truman ( October 30, 1896 – May 18, 1980 ) was a resident of the U. S. state of Washington who lived on Mount St. Helens and came to brief fame in the months preceding the 1980 eruption after stubbornly refusing to leave his home.

Truman said of dedicating the victory to Roosevelt's memory and keeping the flags at half-staff that his only wish was " that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day.

Only a handful of first ladies have lived longer -- Anna Harrison, Edith Bolling Wilson, Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, Nancy Reagan, and Bess Truman.

He platted the village, established the first post office and installed his brother, Truman, as the first postmaster, although he never lived in the village.

He lived with his parents until he married, then in the Wallace House, in rented apartments and houses in Washington ( including 4701 Connecticut Avenue ), in Blair House ( the official state visitors residence ), and in the White House, but it was not until July 1953, following his term of office and the December 1952 death of Madge Gates Wallace, that Harry and Bess Truman purchased the home at 219 North Delaware Street.

Beard's milieu consisted of Andy Warhol, Jackie Onassis, Lee Radziwill, Truman Capote, and Bianca Jagger who all lived and rented houses in Montauk and Manhattan, NY in the 1970s and 1980s.

John R. Steelman, under Harry S. Truman, was the last Chief of Staff to serve for an entire presidential administration.

In 1995 he premiered a one-man " opera " Failing Kansas, based on the same story as Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and in 2000 he produced an entire film with music by himself, rather pointedly titled Funding.

The entire physics department of Harvard and numerous professional organizations wrote Truman on Condon's behalf.

When the Communists from North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950 Truman adopted a rollback strategy, planning to free the entire country by force.

The reluctance of the Fed to continue monetizing the deficit became so great that in 1951, President Truman invited the entire Federal Open Market Committee to the White House to resolve their differences.

He painted Harry Truman and the entire Eisenhower cabinet such as George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury.

After five years, Weir returned to direct his biggest success to date, The Truman Show ( 1998 ), a fantasy-satire of the media's control of life.

By presenting ideological differences in life or death terms, Truman was able to garner support for this communism-containing policy.

' After Truman disbanded the OSS in September 1945, Donovan returned to civilian life.

Truman becomes suspicious of his perceived reality and embarks on a quest to discover the truth about his life.

As well as these strange one-off occurrences, Truman also becomes aware of more subtle abnormalities within his regular day-to-day life, such as the way in which the same people appear in the same places at certain times each day and Meryl's tendency to blatantly advertise the various products she buys.

Despite the best efforts of his family and his best friend Marlon to reassure him ( the latter being fed lines of comforting dialogue by Christof through a wireless earpiece ), all these events cause Truman to start wondering about his life, realizing how the world seems to revolve around him.

Since the show relies on product placement for revenue, Meryl regularly shows off various items she has recently " purchased ," one of the many oddities that makes Truman question his life.

Marlon is a vending machine operator for the company Goodies, who promises Truman he would never lie to him, despite the latest events in Truman's life.

She became romantically involved with Truman and tried to reveal to him the truth about his life, but was thrown out of the show before she could do so.

This causes Truman to begin questioning his staged life, and as he tries to get away from it the writers are forced to write a plot in which Kirk had not drowned but had suffered from amnesia.

Similarly, the original Truman Capote novella on which Breakfast at Tiffany's was based ended with Holly Golightly's going off to Brazil and disappearing from the protagonist's life — while in the film it was changed to her accepting the love he offered her and their famous kiss in the rain.

While he was in Congress he befriended Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a friendship that would last throughout his life.

Truman gives Alex a videotaped message asking her to help him end his life once his Alzheimer's has advanced.

Alex helps Truman end his life ; she is arrested, but avoids prison when a terminally ill judge recuses himself from her case.

Truman was later diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease ; once the disease had progressed, he asked Alex to assist him in taking his own life.

Oscar Collazo was sentenced to death, later commuted by Truman to a life sentence.

His sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment by U. S. President Truman, and he eventually received a presidential pardon.

In 1952, Collazo was sentenced to death, but President Truman commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.

In the biographical film dramas Infamous ( 2006 ) and Capote ( 2005 ), Truman Capote, portrayed by Toby Jones and Philip Seymour Hoffman, reminisces about life during the filming of Beat the Devil.