Word: egomaniacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...valuable contributor to undergraduate artistic life at the University, has chosen Peter Sellars to direct the celebration of its 10th anniversary. I must praise student producer Anne Higgins for her initiative and her efforts; I can only express my extreme concern for her having to deal with a professional egomaniac of the worst sort I wish her and all the others the best of success. As for Mr. Perter Sellars, I suggest he stand in the middle of Harvard Square some Saturday afternoon; this might provide him with the chaos he intends for the audience on the 18th. With...
Santini isn't his real name; it's the nom de guerre (literally) of "Bull" Meecham, Marine colonel, pilot extraordinaire, drunk and practical joker, outrageous egomaniac, and father of a large family which he likes to run like a boot camp. Ben, his oldest boy, is a gentle soul who's beginning to chafe under the discipline, to say nothing of his father's determination to mold him in his own macho image...
...Carpenter's shrewd and tightly written novel. Comedians contains just one star other than its central comics, and she is only a walk-on. It needs no more. The cast is perfect, and the comedy unfailingly original. There are no libidinous or abusive producers, no hysterically egomaniac directors, not even a failed novelist making a rich, bitter livelihood by writing for the screen. The author has been a novelist (Hard Rain Falling, The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan); he has also been a movie and TV working stiff, and what he is offering here is an accurate, lightly...