Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives with his wife Edith, a fashion designer and the daughter of Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He enjoys being recognized on the street. "TV creates celebrities," he says. "It is ego-satisfying work, I'll admit...
...criticism written in the U.S. today reveals the extent of polarization between critics and artists. Strick is simply recognizing, to borrow a well-worn academic concept, that there is little or no "constructive" criticism being written. Why should a director read his critics, unless he's hoping for an ego boost? There's nothing to be learned...
...alter ego--who was born 27 years ago, was introduced to the American public on my first tour here. He has been called the "Little Tramp's Younger Brother." Physically, there is no resemblance. Bip has his adventures and misadventures with everything from butterflies to untameable lions to dance-hall girls, in white-face, wearing a striped pullover and culotte, and a worse-for-wear opera hat topped with a red flower. But basically he and the Little Tramp--like the great Jean-Louis Barrault's Baptiste, and Keaton's Sailor and Laurel's Sad One--are blood brothers...
...SECOND HALF of the show is devoted to Bip, Marceau's alter ego and trademark for the past 25 years. In a worn out high silk hat topped by a flower, his eyes and arched eyebrows darkened, his mouth a red gash, Bip is "the silent witness of the lives of men, struggling against one handicap or another, with joys and sorrows as their daily companions." Born out of the tradition of the nineteenth century which created Pierrot during the French Revolution, Bip is the nostalgic dreamer, arousing pity and empathy as he is confronted by each successive disaster...
...prison had so little effect on himself personally, that his five years did not call into question more fundamental beliefs, simply promotes mechanistic solutions to what is at heart a very complex social problem. For Hoffa the case for prison reform is so intimately tied up with his own ego, that calling for changes in the prison system acts out revenge and does not reflect real political beliefs. Hoffa is playing ego politics; the prison kick comprises one part of his own rehabilitation as a leader and as a tough...