Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fiedler might have trouble doing the commercials. He does not fit the swaggering, "God I'm good" stereotype of typical college phenoms (eg. Princeton tailback Keith Elias). When he says, "I don't really have an ego. I just want the team to win," you sense that he really believes...
...substantial. And how can you trust anyone in an environment in which the sickness underlying every soul is more truthful then the moral transparency? Everyone is saying this: all movies delve the layers of madness; all codes of morality are tainted as relative, or simple extensions of our ego's needs to be discarded when necessary...
...good at what he does. And knows it. And tells you, in a voice whose every syllable bespeaks a 25-year apprenticeship in radio oratory, without fear of repetition or contradiction. If vainglorious were two words, he'd fit both of them. He has an ego made for radio...
...this wrinkled, self- absorbed baby with a cigar once he was safely beyond such a fate himself. At 44, he is now at the top not only professionally -- considered in the same breath with Steve Martin and Robin Williams -- but personally as well, uncommonly secure in a business where ego tremors routinely register 9.8 on the Richter scale. He has lived in the same house in Pacific Palisades, Calif., for 12 years, been married to the same woman for 22. He has scarcely missed a volleyball game of either daughter: Jennifer, 19, who is now studying acting in London...
...hugely successful comedian, Crystal is singularly without attitude -- not as angry as Richard Pryor, nor as frantic as Robin Williams, nor as - political as Jay Leno, not alienated or crude or macho. His humor bursts the bubble of ego without destroying anyone's dignity. He doesn't seem to have an enemy in the business, which partly accounts for the success of Comic Relief, his annual TV show with Whoopi Goldberg and Williams, which raises millions of dollars for the homeless...