Jim Varney, right, the actor who played the rubber-faced rube "Ernest P. Worrell" in a series of movie comedies and hundreds of TV commercials, poses with a fan wearing a mask of Varney portraying Worrell in Nashville, Tenn. in this 1992 photo. Varney died of lung cancer Thursday, Feb. 10, 2000 at his home in White House, Tenn., according to his attorney. He was 50. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey)