Word: egomaniacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rupert." Some industry observers, who have watched him buy newspapers (the New York Post, the Chicago Sun- Times, the Times of London, among others), magazines (New York) and TV outlets in Europe and Australia, say that he relishes a role in running his acquisitions. "Normally, when you have an egomaniac, or, to be polite, a dominant personality, his taste is reflected in choices that are made," says Lee Isgur, an analyst for the brokerage firm of Paine Webber Inc. "Six to twelve months from now, everybody at Fox will be wondering, What will Rupert say about this...
Allen is already at work on his next movie, a "serious comedy" called Hannah and Her Sisters, starring himself and Farrow, his companion of four years. Having made 13 films in the past 15 years, he likes being busy. His directorial model is not the legendary raging egomaniac but the quiet craftsman who prides himself on his productivity. "I don't want to get into that commercial film cycle that says that every time a film comes out it has to be hailed as an event," he says. "All the foreign filmmakers I loved, including Bergman, just turned out their...
...memoirs of a life uprooted by the Russian Revolution. He brags of his exploits as a Don Cossack; he claims pure Russian ; blood and a batch of patents for airplanes and automobiles. But one can never be sure that anything Pyatnitski says is true. He is certainly an egomaniac and very likely mad; he is also a reactionary Tom Swift, an anti-Semite, a sybarite and a paranoiac with a gargantuan appetite for cocaine...
Moorcock takes large risks. An egomaniac with repugnant views is hard to take at great length. There is a predictable pattern to Pyat's adventures as child of the century. But there are rewarding detours: Moorcock's lush descriptions of landscapes and the world's great cities, and a parade of characters that would feel at home in the novels of Dickens, Nabokov and Henry Miller...
...with all great performers, there is no false modesty about Price. A confessed "egomaniac," she has a firm sense of her own worth--and her place in opera. It is, after all, somewhat improbable that the daughter of a sawmill worker and a midwife who both sang in a church choir in segregated Laurel, Miss., could rise to the top of a profession historically dominated not only by whites but by Europeans. Yet as Price wrote on her entrance application to a predominantly black college in Wilberforce, Ohio, "I'm worried about the future because I want so much...