Word: over-the-top
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...National also augmented a solid season by sending productions to the West End. Its own stages offered Athol Fugard's poignant The Road to Mecca and an over-the-top rendition of Gogol's antibureaucratic satire The Inspector General. The cheeriest West End offering is a charming revival of Guys and Dolls starring the pop singer Lulu. But the most exciting theatrical experience in London is a trio of full-length plays originated at the Cottesloe, The Nativity, The Passion and Doomsday, that retell the Bible, accenting the life and death of Christ. The language comes from the alliterative, rhyming...
...directors hardly exist, for reasons having a lot to do with the above maledom. We’ll always have Sofia Coppola, but though a promising filmmaker, she has obviously been helped in no small amount by being the daughter of the reigning king of brilliantly self-destructive, over-the-top masculinity...
Lest we find Beck’s frequent nods to past projects too self-indulgent, he occasionally winks at the very gimmicks that first brought him fame. The over-the-top Gringo Spanglish of “Qué Onda Guero” (about as authentically Latino as Speedy Gonzalez or Taco Bell), hyperbolizes his perhaps most recognizable hit, 1993’s “Loser” with its relentless chorus of “soy un perdedor...
Everything about Ms. Congeniality 2 is more over-the-top than the first. The first film found its humor in mocking the tackiness of beauty pageantry; the second takes the FBI team to Vegas, the capital of camp and glitz. Homosexual stereotypes and humor abound in both films; ironically, the now girly Hart is actually “gayer” in the second, as she performs in a drag show and pokes (the actual) Dolly Parton’s (fake) breasts...
Lest we find Beck’s frequent nods to past projects too self-indulgent, he occasionally winks at the very gimmicks that first brought him fame. The over-the-top Gringo Spanglish of “Qué Onda Guero” (about as authentically Latino as Speedy Gonzalez or Taco Bell), hyperbolizes his perhaps most recognizable hit, 1993’s “Loser” with its relentless chorus of “soy un perdedor...