Word: overactive
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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...