Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been almost a month since Ellen DeGeneres brought herself and her television sitcom alter ego out of the closet...
...comedy material are widely admired. "She completely understands the creative process," says James Widdoes (Dave's World, Boston Common). "She's very specific about what she likes and doesn't like." Producer Dennis Klein (The Larry Sanders Show, last season's Cosby) describes her as "very smart and not ego driven. She's terrific at pinpointing flaws." Klein worked on a quirky comedy pilot for Tarses this spring, The 900 Lives of Jackie Frye; though the show was not picked up, he praises her as "very supportive of its offbeat elements. She didn't want to smooth down the edges...
...painting does not go in tandem with those of architecture and engineering. Yet when painting aspires to a "scientific" analysis of things in sight, when the ego of the artist recedes behind the task of examination, one can at least speak of parallels. The American Realist generation of the turn of the century would not have disagreed. One of them was Thomas Anshutz (1851-1912), best known for his small factory scene, The Ironworkers' Noontime, 1880. It's a piercing image of American youth and strength, feeling its new muscle (literally) in the post-Civil War industrial surge...
...undaunted narcissism (which ends up huring Laura badly), yet also made one feel the something inherently likeable and charming that had attracted her. There was real poignancy in his one moment of elevation, inspired by Laura's brief blossoming but immediately subsiding into the comfortable obliviousness of his ego...
...talents to her friends. She bought me caramels--the good, chewy ones--with the last of her Social Security check. She never liked sports but nevertheless drove 200 miles to watch me pitch--and lose--the Little League state championship. Her pep talk afterwards soothed my battered ego...