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...Lennox's music (long-lined ballads, driving Euro-pop, plaints in the French style), but the tone is consistently, nicely rueful. The sunniest tune, with a piano chirping in a Caribbean accent, is called Walking on Broken Glass. With self-absorption comes the dramatizing of the diva's ego. No one has experienced or endured what she has; no one has been so mad, bad or sad. The woman in these songs is "blind, viciously unkind" (Why), "cynical, twisted" (Precious). If Emily Dickinson were to show up at the Betty Ford Center, she might testify, as Lennox does in Legend...
MORTON MEYERSON, 53, WAS PEROT'S ALTER EGO AT EDS, the man who helped put the founder's ambitions into practice and stayed on top of the details. He started in 1965 as a trainee and left the company 21 years later as its vice chairman with more than $20 million from the buyout. Since then, Meyerson has invested his time in civic projects. He headed the group that sold the Federal Government on building the controversial $8.4 billion supercollider in Texas. He spearheaded the construction of the new symphony hall in Dallas, which is named after Meyerson because Perot...
...woman speaking for Palestine, let alone from a minority." She talks too much. She's aggressive. She's bossy, insists on being in control, doesn't take criticism well. She's a workaholic who has sacrificed her friends and her family for her job. She has a big ego. She's too individualistic; no, she's just a staff officer. She likes the limelight. She loves it, it's gone to her head: "Watch her on TV. She's reveling in it." She wants power and more power: "There's no limit to her aspirations...
...Huston's ego is commensurate with the whale's body: "You ever figure, kid, how much the Beast is like me? The hero plowing the seas, plowing women left and right, off round the world and no stops?" No brakes is more like it. Although Huston poses as a 19th century squire, he is actually a very modern con man, incessantly flagellating or flattering Bradbury into an inhuman schedule. When the script is accepted, the director will unceremoniously grab 50% of the screen credit...
...show was an amiable, unpretentious comedy that reflected the humor, tastes and ego of its star, Bill Cosby. The hourlong episode that concludes its run is entirely typical. The plot is as flimsy as ever: Theo is preparing for his college commencement, and Dad wants to invite more people than there are tickets for. This requires Theo to get on the phone to scrounge up more tickets, while the family exchanges wisecracks about the last time Dad brought too many people to a graduation (he set up lawn chairs for the overflow...