Word: ego
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...lives to make movies," says film critic David Chute, who produced the new laser-disc set of The Killer and observed Woo close up as unit publicist on Hard Target. "He's without ulterior motives, so the set was remarkably free of backbiting, infighting or ego fits." Woo was unfazed by Hard Target's $18.5 million price tag, about five times the size of his Hong Kong budgets. Still, there were adjustments. "In Hong Kong," notes Van Damme, "he's the Steven Spielberg of action movies, but in Los Angeles he's just the new guy in town." Raimi says...
...difficult to divine how many parts monster they were and how many parts fashion victim. The evidence, however, increasingly suggests that they can no longer be perceived merely as exhibits in the great American freak show, good for throwing a chill into Oprah or obliging another host's ego by breaking Geraldo's nose on camera. Rather, the skins have found their niche in American society. It is a far larger niche than most Americans would like them to have, especially as its inhabitants tend to kill people...
...list could go on and on. As the institution's collective ego merits, few areas of government, few campaign-speech initiatives and few front-page stories seem to be without at least some minimum involvement by a Harvard figure, and often an academic...
...Vietnam was a creature of Johnson's ego in a lot of people's views," Popkin says...
...Callbacks took the ego-massage a step further with the teasers for their latest concert. The posters urged students to spend a weekend evening with [insert Callback member's name.] Of course, the name was in big print...