Actors Studio Honcho Says NBA Enables "Culture of Bad Acting"

James Lipton critiques the NBA's worst over-emoters who are turning the game into "four acts of unspeakably bad dinner theater." "The so-called acting we're seeing out there on the floor is just abominable -- where's the motivation, where's the inner anguish-- it's all just externalized claptrap without the emotional ballast that underpins a credible performance," sniffed Lipton. "The primal shrieks, girlish gasps, absurd flopping, the wide-eyed looks of disbelief, the ironic smirks -- bad, bad, bad. Just abysmal." Lipton shuddered as though he'd just wakened to find himself in a pornographic Ed Wood film.