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Perhaps there is no better illustration of the career-related problems currently plaguing Jim Carrey than the cover of Vanity Fair's Hollywood Issue. It features a dapper quartet consisting of Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Chris Rock and Jack Black, all actors who have managed, through a combination of talent and a reluctance to take improvisational leaks on set, to squeak by Carrey on their way to the top of the big screen funnyman heap. Radar now notes that the notoriously erratic comedian is shopping around a new project—a self-help guide entitled Be Ready to Be OK:

"[It's] just my thoughts about different things, you know. It will be very revealing about what I believe," he tells reporter Guilianna [sic] DePandi, according to an E! press release. "The idea of that is accurate, that most things we get upset about in life can be avoided if we just went in ready to be okay when things happen. 'Okay, I'm getting in the car right now so chances are I could hit some traffic. Be ready to be okay with that. Deal with it.'"

It shouldn't be too difficult to decipher what's on Carrey's mind, as this year he has seen many of his pricey vehicles slowed by a rash of red lights. Still, the actor's Zen-like capitulation to those studio forces over which he has no control might mark an entirely new chapter in the artist's personal development: "Que sera sera" Carrey's best-selling self-help series, including subsequent installment How Primary-Numbered Shooting Days and Overly Opinionated Directors Can Totally Screw Up Your Process, And Other Observations From An Actor's Life, might well win the former superstar an entirely new audience of adoring fans.