Will Andy Kaufman return?

1) Big break as sitcom supporting character with elaborate fictional ethnicity complete with strange rituals

2) Occasional weight fluctuations

3) Became new host of Rosie O'Donnell's talk show

Basically, the non-repeatable film is going to be AK saying thanks for coming, he'd like to resurrect himself, but unfortunately he is really dead. And then will take it from there in his own fashion.

from Drag City:

Andy and His Grandmother is an album entirely derived from tapes that Kaufman made during the late 70s or so. He'd obtained a microcassette recorder and was convinced the technology was the key to making a truly great record. He could carry it with him anywhere and tape anything and everything that happened. Over the course of time, he filled up nearly a hundred tapes with encounters that, while based in reality, became irretrievably warped once he started to engage with the situation. Fans of Kaufman's know that the unbearably real part of reality was Andy's muse; his comedy was squeezed out of moments of misunderstanding, failure and pathos. The tapes find Andy experimenting with new approaches in his everyday life. Rather than functioning as a journal or a drawing board, the tapes were a way of realizing comedy live and on the fly. If a taxi ride was approaching and it seemed a good moment to have a bad moment, the recorder was ready. If a drive with grandma was an equally good/bad situation, ditto! And so it went with friends, strangers and girlfriends alike - the closer to home the circumstances were, the blurrier the line between what was really happening and what was supposed to be happening, the better! There's an air of rancor to this that is familiar to Kaufman aficionados but retains the sting of crazy after all these years. Thank you cassette tapes, for helping us realize a dream here - but was it our dream, or Andy Kaufman's? Doesn't matter - now we can all hear what Andy and His Grandmother is all about.

But Kaufman's conversation with comedy partner Bob Zmuda in "I Want Those Tapes" rouses suspicions, as the comedian embraces Zmuda's suggestion to fake his death. At the top of the track, the "dog girl" is demanding that Kaufman turn over the taped rants. Kaufman and Zmuda fantasize about the woman killing Andy for the tapes and the aftermath. A sample of the conversation is below:

Andy Kaufman: Wouldn't it be great if she killed me, and then you have the tapes?...It would be better if I'm more famous.
Bob Zmuda: He took his own act into his own laugh. He played with people's heads, not only on stage, but off and it cost him in the end.

AK: Wow. That would be great. Except I don't want to be killed. When I'm more famous, we could fake it...Wouldn't people hate me if it turns out I'm alive?

Zmuda goes on to suggest that Kaufman should fake his death every few years and come back as a different act.

BZ: ...Then, when you really die, nobody will believe it. Years will go by and they'll go, nah.

AK: Like when Jack Benny was always 39, and he really was 40. They didn't believe him.

BZ: They won't believe your own death, you'll be immortal, you'll go on forever.

AK: That's great.

New Andy Kaufman Album Fuels the Rumor That He's Still Alive

so this happened

what the hell?

GEE I WONDER IF IT'S A PRANK

Another audience member told me later that he knew the young woman was a theater student, but that he'd never met her father. So who's to say, really.

Uh huh.

I saw Tony Clifton live a few months ago

http://tribalinsight.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/i-want-to-believe.jpg

I dreamed I saw Andy Kaufman last night,
alive as you and me.
Says I "But Andy, you're 29 years dead"
"Vait for the punch" said he,
"Vait for the punch" said he.

Andy and Tupac, jammin' in Antigua.