Word: egomanias
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...portrayed by the likable Henry Winkler, Andy is finally a tiresome fellow. But the effort is a game one, and there is a certain originality about the fate that the film works out for Andy. Having failed as an actor in New York, he takes his special brand of egomania over to professional wrestling. The time is the early '50s. when the sport was a TV staple and a man with an arresting gimmick could become a star. Andy flops as a clean-cut hero and a rough-cut villain (in Nazi helmet and Hitler mustache), then finally reaches...
MacArthur's troubles stem from what might be virtues in a literary biography-earnestness, caution, balance. Though the moviemakers clearly admire their subject, they are careful, for example, to dramatize his ravening egomania. A staff p.r. man is always present to arrange heroic news photos of the general, and MacArthur's own concern for image is fully laid out. One cannot complain that they have ignored those aspects of MacArthur's nature that his critics deplored. On the other hand, they have not done much with them, which is to say they have tiptoed...
...film also succeeds in capturing Amin's egomania, depicting his obsession with uniforms, parades, and demonstrations of fealty be his subjects. But beyond these all too few salient features, there is just not very much there. And what is particularly serious about the failure of this film is the unbelievable horror of life in Uganda since Amin's ascendancy. In an article on "Amin's Butchery", in last week's New York Review of Books, David Martin cites the report of Edward Rugumayo, Amin's first minister of education, who fled the country two years after the coup d'etat...
...with a large measure of self-esteem?some critics call it egomania ?Kissinger considers himself a statesman rather than a diplomat. Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's former Chief of Staff, as well as Ambassador to Washington and now Minister of Labor, recalls vividly Kissinger's own definition of the distinction: "The diplomat believes that an international conflict derives from misunderstanding. Therefore he seeks a verbal formula to overcome it. The statesman believes that conflict derives from a difference of interest and confrontation positions. Therefore he tries to change the realities on the ground...
...resentments were deferred, not dismissed. In the palmy days of Hollywood, a story made the rounds. Actor: "How should I play this scene, Mr. Chaplin?" Reply: "Behind me and to the left." It was more than a critique of the star's egomania; it was also a comment on his politics. From the start, Chaplin was a fan of sentimental collectivism, of revolution seen through a scrim. He needed no Bolshevik primer on poverty. Charlie had risen from the darkest of London slums. His father was a drunk; his mother sewed blouses for 1½ pence...