“I get emotional all the time,” Jennifer Beals [left] once said. “I get emotional every time I make a speech, or talk about other cast members,” she says. “Every now and again, my heart just explodes and expands.”
Laurel Holloman, her castmate on the Showtime series “The L Word,” has seen this firsthand: “If Jennifer is [...]

The photo is Christina Ricci as Wednesday in Addams Family Values (1993), which also featured David Krumholtz [now in the tv series Numb3rs] as a rather stereotypical highly sensitive kid, repressed and using an inhaler to cope with asthma.
But Wednesday may represent another sort of coping with high sensitivity: responding to situations and other people [...]