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...practice seemingly as old as Hollywood itself - celebrity clients with substance-abuse problems, or with other real or imagined illnesses, finding doctors to give them the medicines and care they crave, even if it goes against proper medical practice? Or are the temptations - whether the generous pay or the ego gratification of being patronized by a famous person - simply too great to resist? (See Michael Jackson's death: How culpable are the doctors...
...That "whoa," is what these contests are all about; and the showbiz impulse behind them drives big-name chefs, who all want to be the person that elicits that breathless gasp of wonderment. It's ego, yes, but it's also the urge of any artist. It's why we're not still eating beef wellington and clams casino. It's why food matters now in a way it didn't 20 years...
...constructed by Gorlin and Mirvish (the book’s true authors), Eisenstadt is the pundit par excellence—a Washington operative with an inflated sense of self-importance, a political skill set inversely proportional to ego, and a grab bag of talking points in the form of arguments by assertion. His knowledge of international affairs is sketchy, but he is quite sure of America’s historical preeminence within them. His achievements are few, but his sense of self-importance is vast. He is obsessed with image and public perception—the kind...
...those unpublished manuscripts will find their way into print. Salinger struggled all his long life with the contradiction between his gifts as a writer and his impulse to refuse them. Here's his character Franny Glass outlining the dilemma of someone like Salinger who wants to abandon the ego, the will to "succeed...
...Oliver’s personality, while Gore’s relationship with his father, Senator Albert Gore, parlayed into Oliver’s difficulties with his own domineering father, according to statements Segal made in the 1990s, when Americans began to wonder whether Oliver Barrett IV was an alter-ego of Gore...