Word: egomaniacal
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...concerns a movie to be made about a heroic expedition that cost Explorer Christian Starcross and his men their lives. At odds over the movie project are Starcross' widow (Eva Le Gallienne) and his former mistress (Mary Astor). Their feuding reveals that Star-cross himself was an unscrupulous egomaniac who had knowingly set forth on a phony quest. But his devoted widow insists that the movie be made anyhow -arguing that, in an era of despair, a heroic legend born of a lie counts for more than the actual truth...
Women have been lying to men for several thousand years; Doc Kinsey must be an egomaniac to assume they'd tell him the truth . . . The most interesting thing about your Aug. 24 review was the picture of all those suffragettes...
Groza is a wealthy egomaniac who considers himself the greatest tennis player since Tilden, the greatest lover since Casanova and the finest figure of a man since Lionel Strongfort. At 64 he runs three miles before breakfast every day. He likes to have his bodyguard, who always carries a Luger, referee his tennis matches. Groza cheats, and his opponents rarely argue. Nevertheless, Groza is putty in Ana's hands. He goes to Mme. Pauker before leaving official functions and asks: "Do you still need...
...with a fondness for gaudy sport togs. In Irma's infancy, Sy handled everything, from the first line of script to the last directorial cue. Nowadays, he leaves much of the writing to scripters. But he still rules the show with a firm hand. "I'm an egomaniac," he says. "The cast hates me, but better they should hate me and give a good show than love me and we're off the air." For conventional radio comedy he has only a sneer: "Anybody with the price of a joke-book can write a gag, but only...
...Marx he presents is a man with his brain cut out. Hence the facts add up to a caricature. Schwarzschild's thesis is that Karl Marx was 1) a rabbinical thinker whose pyramids of abstract logic were brilliant, but had nothing to do with facts; 2) a vicious egomaniac determined to ruin any man or group that he could not dominate; 3) a political seer whose prognostications were almost always wrong; 4) a self-styled "scientific" socialist whose science was about as scientific as astrology; 5) an economist whose economic knowledge was perfunctory and puerile. Marx's mind...