Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pryor wants to play the victim of circumstances and earn more than a modicum of our sympathy without going all the way with it. He uses the movie to avenge all the people that did him wrong along life's proverbial dusty road, but he hides behind the alter-ego of Jo Jo Dancer...
...active supporter of her husband's career, a conscientious mother, a producer, a writer and an international star is a bit much for one person." Alas, the women all had the audacity to change. Only Vadim, 58, author, actor, filmmaker, narcissist, has managed to keep his outlook and ego evergreen. "When I came into the world," he laments, "I must have come to the wrong civilization." Exactement...
...stands, then, the Oxfam fast is a hypocritical excercise in conscience-soothing, ego-inflating giving. Under the current system, the most successful fast would see every dining hall employee getting paid for doing no work, every student painting the town--and starving folk in Africa and elsewhere getting far less than if we avoided the pretense of Oxfam night altogether. So do a starving family in Africa a favor. Skip the Oxfam fast...
Glucksman seems totally comfortable as Madonna, her lip-synch numbers are overwhelmingly realistic, as her smug self-indulgence captures that of her musical alter ego...
Speaking about a political prisoner whose cause she's espoused, Annie says to Henry, who is clearly a Stoppard alter-ego, "You think that he can't write and he thinks that that's all you can do." Since writing may possibly be the only thing that Stoppard can do-and he does it pretty well--his words are worth respecting...