Word: overacting
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...third story contains the only watchable female performances. Brittany Murphy is surprisingly effective as Shelley, Dwight’s girlfriend who is menaced by Jackie Boy. The other two women, a dominatrix named Gail (Rosario Dawson) and a spunky hooker played by Gilmore Girls’s Alexis Bledel, overact to the point of high-school-play foolishness. Still, their costumes are some of the best in the film: Dawson manages to look like an Amazon in fishnet bondage gear and Bledel is arresting with her green-tinted eyes and shining white crucifixes hanging from her neck and ears...
Think it's impossible to play yourself and still overact the part? Kirstie Alley proves you wrong in the first seconds of Fat Actress, the Showtime sitcom (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.) based on her well-publicized experience as a 200-lb. actress in body-conscious Hollywood. Stepping on her bathroom scale, she reads the verdict, howls like a wounded animal and drops to the floor, then crawls to answer the phone. Her agent asks how she's doing. "Very well!" she sobs. "The pounds are just melting...
Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’07, as Seymour’s love interest Audrey, was absolutely wonderful; she understood exactly how to overact her character and sang quite beautifully as well. When she dropped her gangster’s-moll falsetto and let her voice shine through—as in “Somewhere That’s Green,” her big solo number—her voice showed considerable force...
However, the University is being careful not to overact. Although HUPD’s officers are armed—unlike police at schools like Brown—there are no plans to offer specialized so-called SWAT training or to start a University bomb squad. For those services, the University will continue to rely on the Boston police and the State Police...
...some of the characters overact, it is only to serve the greater cause of the comedy. Libby Shani '02 is radiant as Rita Altabel--spirited and rebellious and thoroughly blunt. She has fun with a part that lets her talk at length about the various penises she has encountered and that requires her to say "I've tasted my menstrual blood!" on more than one occasion. Rita plays well off of her friend Samantha Stewart (Annalise Nelson '02), who wants nothing more than to be the woman behind the man she marries. Though she is characterized as the perfect wife...