Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perot has shown that he is in a position to be heard and even respected by many people. With this opportunity for ego-stroking comes the responsibility to be honest...
...learned another lesson in the past two weeks the movie life just isn't that glamorous. The Hollywood-comes-to-Harvard experience hasn't been exciting, or enthralling, or even ego-boosting. It's just been a nuisance...
Constantly taunting LeFranc and doting on Green Eyes, Maurice, played by Jessie Cohen, is the crucial tragic link between the two dominant men. Cohen delivers her performance with coquettish finesse, though it often becomes more irritating than attractive. Through her ability to bring out Maurice's naivete and fragile ego, she succeeds in shaping the tragic victim of masculine power games. Cohen is at her best during the penultimate scene in which her character, imbued with all the cattiness of a young boy in a man's world, challenges LeFranc...
...black African man, he was born in Riverside, California, but moved to Hertfordshire, England, when he was three. He worked in the British fashion industry and, as late as two months ago, had a temp job in a frock shop. His conversation is nonchalance unsullied by star ego. "I find it hard to be objective about the film," he says. "I can't see past the fact that I'm in it. I can't bear to look at myself, that's what it is. This is arrogant, but I think I look more beautiful -- if there is any beauty...
...merchandising money. Unfortunately, after this initial burst of misunderstood creative ingenuity, my brain went numb. It was a nightmare: all my creativity had slowly seeped out of me, leaving me a dry, lifeless husk totally incapable of inventive conversation, let alone producing a daily, witty, critically acclaimed, award-winning, ego trip of a comic strip...