If you were an 80s baby, your teenage years were flush with great movies such as There’s Something About Mary, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Cable Guy.  Remember the stars of those films, Cameron Diaz and Jim Carrey?  Sure we do.  They were great!  Diaz commanded the screen as a sexy, but funny “everyday” kinda gal.  Carrey contorted his face and gave us belly laughs from role to role.  They even starred in The Mask TOGETHER, which was Diaz’s film debut.  Carrey had a pretty good run in the 90s.  In addition to the aforementioned films, Dumb & Dumber and the Truman Show were also instant comedy classics.  He even ventured into the “serious” with a breakout performance in Man on the Moon (which was the Andy Kaufman bio-pic).  Diaz had a less-than-illustrious early career as far as critical acclaim was concerned, but she was still immensely popular and became one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood.

Then came the year 2000.  To me, that year was the end of an era for both of these icons.