Word: over-the-top
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...this era of outrageous, genrebending, over-the-top films, it seems imposible that a mere "musical" first released in 1964 could shock our desensitized ninties selves. But the newly re-released "Umbrellas of Cherbourg," a sung-through, "faux technicolor" kitsch-binge, is downright obscene in its shameless, ecstatic campiness...
...same folks who brought you the Fox Box, the glow puck and an in-studio football field are about to transform baseball, or try to. Since its first broadcast less than two years ago, Fox Sports has left a sizable imprint on televised sports with innovative gimmicks, over-the-top commentary and a philosophy of fun with games. Started from scratch when Rupert Murdoch landed an N.F.L. television contract in 1993, Fox Sports has made imitators out of skeptics. But then the whole idea of a fourth network was once considered impossible...
DIED. CHARLIE FINLEY, 77, over-the-top owner of baseball's Kansas City and Oakland A's; known for innovations such as the designated hitter, nighttime World Series games and colored uniforms; of heart and vascular disease; in Chicago...
...Dewolf as the bratty Damis, who Orgon disinherits for insultingTartuffe, is another stand-out. Dewolf's ridiculous, over-the-top teenager has a severe attitude problem and too many music videos playing in his head. He is a little too sitcom, but is nonetheless amusing...
Opening the SpeakEasy Stage Company's fifth season is Jonathan Tolins' The Twilight of the Golds, an over-the-top but entertaining look at the darker side of scientific progress. The play focuses on Rob Stein (Jeff Miller) and Suzanne Gold-Stein (Serena Berne), a happy yuppie couple who discover through genetic testing that their unborn child is going to be gay. In the end, they decide it's in the best interest of all to terminate the pregnancy...