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During the final lap, one hostess appeared to trip and spill them across the floor in a choreographed theatrical fall, abruptly stopping the celebration and startling onlookers.
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Yet despite its international cult following, Richard Kelly’s debut feature never received a commercial theatrical release in Mexico.
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Jane Austen and Charles Dickens were both masters of comedy, but the contrast between her ironic understatement and his histrionic exaggeration reflects profoundly different personalities and life experiences, in which class and gender played an important part.
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Fran’s histrionic, hypochondriacal ex-husband was played by legendary character actor Richard Kind.
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The movie, whose campy tone is borrowed from melodramatic after-school specials and delivered in Early’s signature deadpan, is a study in artifice.
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The conversation quickly turned to tone and to how their shows use tools like humor and perspective to ensure things never get too melodramatic.
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Smith remains wonderfully hammy.
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But her gamboling merrymakers, hammy showgirls, and blithe flaneurs insist otherwise.
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Now, following intense backlash from local communities, a series of lawsuits and a leadership shakeup at the Department of Homeland Security, the agency appears to be abandoning the initiative – a dramatic shift away from a plan that had already seen spending upwards of $1 billion.
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The show’s dramatic romance and journey of self-growth seems to fit in line with something Austen would’ve imagined for her characters.
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The auteur can now cross another genre off his bucket list with The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kokurojo), a stately and rather stagy historical mystery set during the 16th century, at a time when warring clans fought and outmaneuvered each other for control of the land.
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Some of his jabs seemed a bit forced and stagy.
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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