{"id":7777,"date":"2008-02-19T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2011-05-01T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T13:18:55","slug":"over-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7777","title":{"rendered":"over the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/scanners\/2008\/02\/biggest_acting_best_and_worst.html\">jim emerson&#8217;s post on over-the-top perfromances<\/a><\/p>\n<p>the comments are great too.<\/p>\n<p>i think meryl streep is best when she&#8217;s over-the-top in comedies.<\/p>\n<p>i love when an actor dares to go BIG &#8230; dares to be misunderstood by an audience &#8230; doesn&#8217;t play it safe.  sometimes it falls flat.  hugely flat.  but i do admire the risk.<\/p>\n<p>speaking of mommie dearest &#8211; i heard faye dunaway speak, once, and she spoke intricately about her experience filming that movie, and what it was meant to be &#8211; as opposed to what it turned out to be.  an actress has only so much control.  but the most fascinating thing was dunaway saying that it was never meant to be a &#8220;realistic performance&#8221;.  she said, &#8220;I thought of it as being like Kabuki theatre &#8211; that was how I approached it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>seen in that light, she was phenomenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jim emerson&#8217;s post on over-the-top perfromances the comments are great too. i think meryl streep is best when she&#8217;s over-the-top in comedies. i love when an actor dares to go BIG &#8230; dares to be misunderstood by an audience &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36999,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions\/36999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}