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HIGH TIMES 'WEEDS' CO-STAR PERKINS WILLING TO BARE ALL FOR ROLE.


Byline: GREG HERNANDEZ

Elizabeth Perkins really loves playing the controlling, manipulative ma·nip·u·la·tive  
adj.
Serving, tending, or having the power to manipulate.

n.
Any of various objects designed to be moved or arranged by hand as a means of developing motor skills or understanding abstractions, especially in
 and image-obsessed Celia Hodes on the Showtime show·time or show time  
n.
1. The time at which an entertainment, such as the showing of a movie, is scheduled to start.

2. Slang The time at which an activity is to begin.

Noun 1.
 hit "Weeds."

But that doesn't mean she likes Celia, the PTA PTA or parent-teacher association: see parent education.  president who cheats on her husband, doesn't like her daughter and failed to get much sympathy even when she battled breast cancer.

"I think she's a complete horror show horror show
n. Informal
1. A situation or example of great horror.

2. Something provoking great dismay or disgust: The basement was a horror show after the sleepover party. 
, she's completely out of her mind but in a really great way for an actress anyway," Perkins said this week. "But I think there are parts of her that ring very true."

"Weeds" has provided her with a welcome return to those early comic roles.

"I don't think people think of me as doing comedy and yet I've done so much comedy so it's nice to be able to remind people every week that I can be funny ... and that I will do full-frontal nudity Nudity
Adam and Eve

unashamed in Eden without clothes. [O.T.: Genesis 2:25]

Agnes, St.

hair grew to cover her nakedness. [Christian Hagiog.: Daniel, 21]

burlesque show

stage entertainment to which was added striptease dancing.
 on television."

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(color) Elizabeth Perkins plays Celia Hodes in Showtime's "Weeds."

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