The Odd Fellows

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Not all those angles have worked out. A comedy they hoped to produce last year about pioneering sex researcher Alfred Kinsey fell apart during the development process. A film about disco icons the Village People derailed when they couldn't obtain creative control. An homage to the kid-show character H.R. Pufnstuf came close to being produced several times but still hasn't been made. And then there are the dozens of off-center biopic ideas that people are continually bringing them--baseball manager Billy Martin, TV preacher Gene Scott, sideshow freak Johnny Eck, pin-up girl Bettie Page.

Once they've finished writing the Marx Brothers script for DeVito's Jersey Films production company, however, Alexander and Karaszewski say they'll hold off on show-business bios for a while. Indeed, next year will see the release of their joint directorial debut, a comedy starring Norm Macdonald as a downtrodden chauffeur. They've also written a live-action version of the TV cartoon series The Jetsons. Meanwhile, Carrey liked their Kaufman script so much he brought them in to adapt Henry's List of Wrongs, an unpublished novel about a ruthless businessman seeking forgiveness. Not a biopic in the bunch, which is O.K. with Alexander and Karaszewski. It's time, they feel, to make up some lives of their own.