1. Jim Varney - Death, Ernest & Facts - Biography (Bio.)
LGBTQ Pride · History & Culture · Musicians · Movies & TV · Athletes · Artists · Power ... Who Was Jim Varney? Jim Varney got his big break in 1976 when he was ...
Comedic actor Jim Varney played his signature character Ernest P. Worrell in hundreds of commercials and five Disney films including 'Ernest Goes to Camp.'
2. Jim Varney - Findadeath Forum
It is completely offensive to the people who remember Jim Varney and his Ernest character and it's incredibly insulting to Jim, posthumously. ... gay guys stopped ...
I must have seen all of the Ernest Goes movies 10 times each. My son was a huge fan, and even dressed as Ernest for Halloween one year... I think he'd be a good subject for FAD too!! I remember he died of lung cancer... He looked like he lived for cigarettes... He was a great character actor, but I think he did Shakespeare too! Susan
3. Wild At Heart - ELLE
28 aug 2006 · BBT: My buddy Jim Varney, God rest his soul, who played Ernest. He'd ... Obviously, not in his personal life, because he was gay, but in the ...
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4. Jim Varney Dies of Lung Cancer; 'Millionaire' Sweeps ABC to Ratings ...
10 feb 2000 · SCHEERER: Scott Thompson, whose post-"Kids" work included a gay character on "The Larry Sanders Show," says "Kids in the Hall" reruns on Comedy ...
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5. Remembering Varney | News | nashvillescene.com
17 feb 2000 · Actor Jim Varney has perhaps been remembered most this week for what he wasn't. Along with his obituary that described the details of his ...
Actor Jim Varney has perhaps been remembered most this week for what he wasn’t. Along with his obituary that described the details of his life and death at the age
6. The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney (Stuff that ...
He spent over five years researching and writing “The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney. ... byHeather Gay. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. 4/5.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ernest, the lovable blue-collar buffoon, was a staple of pop culture in countless commercials, nearly a dozen movies and an award-winning Saturday-morning TV show. Today, millions of fans still mourn the loss of actor Jim Varney, who portrayed Ernest and who died at age 50 in 2000 of cancer. Ernest fans are finally getting the biography they have been waiting for in this comprehensive work by Jim’s nephew, Justin Lloyd. “The Importance of Being Ernest: The Life of Actor Jim Varney” traces Jim’s journey from a child in Lexington, Kentucky, with dreams of being a stage and film actor to becoming an iconic entertainment figure in the tradition of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Little Tramp.” The book is based on numerous interviews with family members and intimates of Jim who have never spoken publicly before about what drove the actor and how he overcame many personal and professional obstacles to attain success. But with that success came a price: Jim longed for stage and film roles beyond Ernest, and they were difficult to come by because of his symbiosis with the character. Yet Jim persevered, ultimately winning major movie roles such as Jed Clampett in “The Beverly Hillbillies” and (the voice of) Slinky Dog in the first two “Toy Story” films. The book also explores the genius of the small Nashville advertising agency that created Ernest and how it spread his popularity decades before “going viral” became associated with achieving global stardom....
7. Where a Racist Comedian Draws the Line - The Atlantic
3 dec 2013 · ... gay actor, if I'm correct — and he parodies ... Everyone's entitled to have their opinion. If they like Jim Varney or don't like Jim Varney ...
The creator of a now-infamous video depicting a cartoonishly racist Asian man insists that you just don't get his lowbrow humor. And, since you asked, yes, he'd also mock a black person in a video. But not if it were shown at a church.
8. Respect for Jim Varney - Travalanche - WordPress.com
15 jun 2018 · You can be punished by success, and that was most certainly the case with the late Jim Varney (1949-2000), although he was slowly beginning ...
You can be punished by success, and that was most certainly the case with the late Jim Varney (1949-2000), although he was slowly beginning to remedy his peculiar predicament at the time of his dea…
9. How Jim Varney and His Redneck Alter Ego Built a Lasting Legacy
15 mrt 2017 · LGBTQ · Sports · Entertainment · Movies · TV · Music · Books · Gaming · Comics ... Portrayed by Kentucky-born actor Jim Varney, Ernest rose to ...
Everyone has an Ernest P. Worrell character in their life: the kind of acquaintance who pops up out of the blue like a chatty Whack-a-Mole,...
