Word: egomaniacal
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...Kind of Man, like so many Warner films, is less esthetically vivid, more earnestly aware of history and document. A return to the year before repeal, it tells the story of an egomaniac gambler (Zachary Scott), his girl (Janis Paige), and a columnist (Dane Clark) who refused to take no, or a beating, for an answer...
...servicemen who are discrediting their country and that amazing guy who attributes the winning of the war to the activities of egomaniac McCormick are sad examples of stingily financed school systems...
...story requires Mr. Cantor to portray himself as a Pandora's box of stale jokes, an egomaniac with whom Messrs. Horton & Sakall traffic only because he owns Dinah Shore, who is essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...
...PATRIOTIC MURDERS - Agatha Christie - Dodd, Mead ($2). Dead in London: Hercule Poirot's dentist, Amberiotis the Greek, a faceless lady in a trunk. These lead the great French detective to a callous and murderous egomaniac...
...lovable commentator of the Woolcott school, has a meaty part and takes full advantage of his opportunity. In the process of the play, he manages to make himself a most unwelcome guest, and, in the words of his secretary, well played by Edith Atwater, he is an egomaniac of the first water...