Word: overactor
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...make a complete fool of oneself movie after movie takes confidence. Not a problem for JIM CARREY. "I don't care if people think I am an overactor," he says, "as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter." Unlike Vincent, Carrey has found fans while he's still alive. So far, most have Y chromosomes and are under 25. But he's hoping his newest movie, Liar Liar, in which he plays a dad who has to tell the truth for a day, will change that. "It will open...
...Some oldsters come because "I saw one episode when I was eleven and wanted to know how it came out"; the majority are meeting the movie Batman for the first time. In either case, the reaction varies in pitch from light snickers to Neanderthal roars. Audiences giggle at Veteran Overactor J. Carroll Naish's portrait of Dr. Daka, boo the opening episode's racist slurs: "A wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs." But by the time Batman lies trapped in a pit with knife blades converging on him, the audience stops laughing, starts chanting: "Kill! Kill...
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