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The video continues to make its rounds online, with viewers debating whether the photographer’s approach was overly theatrical, or a uniquely beautiful take on documenting a wedding.—
Claire Dodds,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026 -
Her trademark covers live stage performances, theatrical productions and TV, among other things.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Mar. 2026
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There is plenty about Norris to make fun of, but I’d be thrilled if today’s MAGA bros honored their forbears and were slightly less histrionic.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
20 Mar. 2026
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His characters included Gayle Waters-Waters, a histrionic suburban woman based, in part, on his own mother, who co-starred as Gayle’s friend Bonnie.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
4 Mar. 2026
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Calva plays Rodrigo Rojas, a telenovela actor who is anxious to break away from his melodramatic roles.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2026
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The show’s one and only joke is that the story is played more or less straight and true to the language of soap operas with pregnant pauses, cheesy music cues, and melodramatic reveals — which is funny for a few scenes before turning into a laughless bore.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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But what is ultimately to be gained by making this a hammy, Neil Simon-esque romp?—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2026
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For most of the show, Bad Bunny had been mugging merrily to the camera, flaring his eyes and making hammy gestures to illustrate his words.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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The change in temperatures will be dramatic after a record-setting 84 degrees on Wednesday in the Philadelphia region.—
Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Yet key dramatic moments—a shooting, the robbers’ realization that the bank vault is empty—occurred in a hallway invisible to the audience, described secondhand.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Sure, there’s something stagy in summing up Hart’s life via an increasingly drunken evening celebrating the premiere of his former creative partner Richard Rodgers’s (Andrew Scott) musical Oklahoma!, which will go on to be hugely successful and beloved, but which Hart can’t stand.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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And even though there are stretches of stagey-sounding expository dialogue, the story manages to wheel along at a clip.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Actorly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/actorly. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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