Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...self-esteem problems; indeed, that is their problem. The only star who simmers with comic angst is Stiller. He's the put-upon loser, a jocular Job, in films like There's Something About Mary and Night at the Museum, when he's not taking roles as the pompous, uptight bad guy (in, say, Dodgeball) or the preening oaf, as in the well-nigh-immortal Zoolander. The moneymen love Stiller too, because he's the rare comic star with international box-office clout...
...primal scream is a symbol of more than just tradition. It seems fitting that such a salient symbol of Harvard tradition should be comprised of several hundred nude Ivory Tower dwellers who, eager to escape their daily, uptight, and proper image, throw off the repression with their clothes and take to the Yard...
...this subtly shifts the focus away from the children and their nanny (a spunky, Americanized Mary played by newcomer Ashley Brown) and to the adults. When the uptight Mr. Banks begins to panic that he may lose his job at the bank, there's real pain and poignancy as his crusty shell starts to crumble. (Mrs. Banks: "If you have problems, I want to share them." Mr. Banks: "Believe me, you will.") This Mary becomes a show less about children than about the loss of childhood--and about how adults learn to be parents. Which is just what...
...people he was married to), plus trouble with alcohol (DUI) and cocaine (possession, rehab). "The beauty of playing Frasier and being Kelsey at the same time was that they did not relate," Grammer says. "I was scandal fodder throughout all those years because I played such a contrary role--uptight, intellectual, inhibited Frasier vs. indulgent, wild ... expressive Kelsey, let's just say." He chuckles at his inspired euphemism...
...your-chair, musical whirlwind is about young, energetic protagonist Ren (Kevin Barlowski) who moves out of the city with his monther to a rural town that has outlawed dancing. So what does this little revolutionary sparkplug do? He puts on a dance, much to the chagrin of the uptight Reverend Moore (Sean P. Bala ’09), but to the delight of the Reverend’s daughter and his own love interest Ariel (Sarah-Jayne Blackmore...