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Toward the end of the movie, Remy whips up his specialty for Anton Ego (voiced by Peter O'Toole), a food critic so severe he is known to trembling chefs throughout Paris as the Grim Eater. Ego puts a forkful in his mouth, and in a flash, fond memories--of a loving mother giving him delicious food--play across his face. As Bird describes the moment, "His eyes drift down toward the dish, like, 'Is it this? It is this. I love food again. This is what I was missing.'" A taste of something wonderful can humanize almost any misanthrope...
...institutional inertia. Everyone must feel invested in the institution’s common goals, and nobody can feel talked down to. Faust must thus walk a tightrope, listening to all parties intently and building consensus so that things get done while not becoming so bogged down in meetings and ego-stroking that nothing gets done at all.Although Faust has maintained a low profile in the past few months, her first steps have been in the right direction. Most visibly, she kept Provost Steven E. Hyman in place. Hyman is one of the longest-serving members of the central administration...
...political self-interest. Edwards has been carefully grooming himself for political glory ever since he finished milking the health-care industry for every cent he could as a trial lawyer specializing in personal-injury litigation. His baby kissing and do-gooder track record clearly indicate he's an ego-driven man purely in it for himself and will do whatever is politically expedient to achieve the highest elected office in the country. Jeremy Dreyer, Matthews, North Carolina...
...couldn’t do it in person,” Sullivan screams as his shoe-loving alter-ego Kelly, “you had to text-message break...
...Prima donna actors are great,” she says. “You see this in movie stars. The actors who think they’re a big deal invariably will become a big deal.”“Actors, at their center, are ego,” she continues. “The ego has to be big enough to fill the whole stage.” But her tolerance of egotistical actors is not completely self-indulgent. Having directed numerous plays, Birnbaum knows how it feels to work on the other side of the curtain...