Robin Williams was considered for the role, but Weir cast Carrey after seeing him in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective because Carrey's performance reminded him of Charlie Chaplin.

Carrey and Weir initially found working together on set difficult ( Carrey's contract gave him the power to demand rewrites ), but Weir was impressed with Carrey's improvisational skills, and the two became more interactive.

Carrey ( Best Actor ), Harris ( Best Supporting Actor ) and Weir ( Direction ) also received nominations.

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 ).

After Weir died in 1968 from brain cancer, Kosiński was left nothing in her will.

Although personal accounts of taking the cactus had been written by psychologists such as Weir Mitchell in the US and Havelock Ellis in the UK during the 1890s, the German-American Heinrich Kluver was the first to systematically study its psychological effects in a small book called Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations published in 1928.

Weir was born in Sydney, the son of Peggy ( née Barnsley ) and Lindsay Weir, a real estate agent.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

On 14 June 1982, Weir was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ( AM ) for his service to the film industry.

Child star Lukas Haas received wide praise for his debut film performance ; Witness also earned Weir his first Oscar nomination as Best Director, and was his first of several films to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Weir's next film, Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) was a major international success, with Weir again receiving credit for expanding the acting range of its Hollywood star.

The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Weir, and launched the acting careers of young actors Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard.

Green Card was a box-office hit but was regarded as less of a critical success, although it helped Depardieu's path to international fame, and Weir received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay.

The Truman Show was both a box office and a critical success, receiving positive reviews and numerous awards, including three Academy Award nominations: Andrew Niccol for Best Original Screenplay, Ed Harris for Best Supporting Actor, and Weir himself for Best Director.

Others were replaced by a footbridge when the weir was removed as at Hart's Weir Footbridge.

Shortly after her death, an Edmonton secondary school formerly known as Weir Hall was renamed Gladys Aylward School in her honour.

The condition currently known as CRPS was originally described during the American Civil War by Silas Weir Mitchell, who is sometimes also credited with inventing the name " causalgia.

The earliest mention of an ALC / domestic cross was in 1889, when Harrison Weir wrote in Our Cats and All About Them:

Weir argues that Philippa was the junior and that both were children of a second marriage.

The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1975 by director Peter Weir.

However, only about ten minutes of footage was filmed before the rights were optioned to Peter Weir for his more famous feature-length version, and the production was permanently shelved.

1980's Breaker Morant starring Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown dramatised the controversial trial of an Australian soldier during the Boer War and was followed by 1981's World War I drama Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.

The Year of Living Dangerously was directed by Peter Weir, who also made a successful transition to Hollywood.

It was made into a 1975 feature film by producers Patricia Lovell, Hal and Jim McElroy, and director Peter Weir.

His major accomplishment was learning drawing and map making from American artist Robert W. Weir.

On the more sinister side, famous criminals from Edinburgh's history include Deacon Brodie, pillar of society by day and burglar by night, who is said to have influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's story, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the murderers Burke and Hare who provided fresh corpses for anatomical dissection by the famous surgeon Robert Knox and Major Weir a notorious warlock.

Weir then took up a position with the Commonwealth Film Unit ( later renamed Film Australia ), for which he made several documentaries, including a short documentary about an underprivileged outer Sydney suburb, Whatever Happened to Green Valley, in which residents were invited to make their own film segments.

Finally, Alison Weir, again drawing on the Fieschi Letter, has recently argued that Edward II escaped his captors, killing one in the process, and lived as a hermit for many years ; in this interpretation, the body in Gloucester Cathedral is of Edward's dead captor.

Peter Weir has the record for the most nominations yet to win best Director for someone still alive, 4 nominations.

Places, famous or infamous, that Kalgoorlie is noted for include its water pipeline, designed by C. Y. O ' Connor and bringing in fresh water from Mundaring Weir near Perth, its Hay Street brothels, its two-up school, the goldfields railway loopline, the Kalgoorlie Town Hall, the Paddy Hannan statue / drinking fountain, the Super Pit and Mount Charlotte lookout.

Feldman's first choice of director was Peter Weir, but he was involved in pre-production work for The Mosquito Coast and passed on the project.

Then, as financial backing for The Mosquito Coast fell through, Weir became free to direct Witness, which was his first American film.

The latter two have dams ( Canning Dam and Mundaring Weir ) which provide a sizeable part of the potable water requirements for Perth and the regions surrounding.

The cities of Baxter Springs, Columbus, Galena, Scammon, and Weir are considered governmentally independent and are excluded from the census figures for the townships.

* Weir, D., Noyes, D. Raising Hell How the Center for Investigative Reporting Gets the Story, ( Chapter on " Let Them Eat est.

Roy Oswalt, a major league pitcher for the Texas Rangers, and his wife Nicole live in Weir.

* Olympic Figure Skater Johnny Weir refers to Quarryville as his " hometown ", living there for many of his childhood years.

After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films — many of them major box office hits — including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

Weir chose French screen icon Gérard Depardieu in the lead — Depardieu's first English-language role — and paired him with American actress Andie MacDowell.

( 1973 ), although the haunting Australian-made Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), directed by Peter Weir, provided her with a different kind of role, as the authoritarian head teacher of a Victorian girls ' school.

Peter Weir cast Mel Gibson in the role of the cynical Frank Dunne, and newcomer Mark Lee was recruited to play the idealistic Archy Hamilton after participating in a photo session for the director.

This has allowed them to cast other actors in the role of the Doctor, including Sir Derek Jacobi, Arabella Weir and David Warner.

Michael Damian Weir ( born April 26, 1962, San Diego, California ) is a long-time American actor, Billboard # 1 recording artist and producer, known mainly for his role as singer Danny Romalotti on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, which he played from 1980 to 1998.

* Napoleon is the subject of a fictional film of the same name, with movie star Martin Weir ( Danny DeVito ) portraying the title role in Get Shorty.

Pancake has been linked to romantic interests such as leading actor Weir Sukollwat Pra ' ek best known from his role in the lakorn Pleng Ruk Rim Farng Korng.

Higginson took over the role of Dr. Elizabeth Weir from Jessica Steen in a guest spot on the season eight opener of Stargate SG-1.

Weir then moved to Rangers in 2007 and became club captain after Barry Ferguson was stripped of the role in April 2009.

Leonard Weir is a stage actor best known for his role of Freddy Einsford-Hill in the London production of My Fair Lady along with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison.

Mary Weir, known as Molly Weir ( 17 March 1910 – 28 November 2004 ) was a Scottish stage actress, most notable for her role as the long-running ( 1977 – 1984 ) character Hazel the McWitch in the BBC TV series Rentaghost.

Towards the beginning of February 2008, it was revealed that Torri Higginson would not be reprising the role of Elizabeth Weir in season 5.

Suvla Bay also plays a role in the climax of the Peter Weir movie Gallipoli in which the third and final wave of Australian troops is ordered into a suicidal advance to maintain pressure on the Ottoman / German troops despite the failure of the landing.

Bond's friendship with Weir led to him writing the music for the three-part AFI Award-winning 1970 film Three To Go ( in which he also had a small acting role ), for which Weir directed one segment.