Word: megalomania
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...best, Naked Hollywood puts a human twist on the familiar tales of Hollywood mass production and megalomania. One sequence tracks the relay team of writers hired by producer-director Ivan Reitman to massage the script of Kindergarten Cop. ("I felt he was somewhat written out," says Reitman of original writer Murray Salem. Says Salem: "He was not that friendly to me.") James Caan recalls career missteps that included turning down the lead roles in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kramer vs. Kramer...
...other hand, Saddam's hopes of winning the war politically -- even his megalomania never foresaw anything better militarily than a bloody stalemate -- have steadily eroded. His Scud attacks have failed to provoke Israel into retaliation and are a declining menace. Two missiles fired last week at Saudi Arabia broke apart in the sky; two more that landed in southern Israel Saturday caused no reported injuries. His Persian Gulf oil spills have incited more world condemnation than fear, and his threats of triggering worldwide terrorism remain unrealized so far. Well before last week's withdrawal statement, the tone of Baghdad...
When Israeli intelligence agents gave an anonymous sample of Saddam's handwriting to a leading graphologist recently, the analyst said the writer suffered from severe megalomania with symptoms of paranoia. Graphology is even less of a science than long-distance psychiatry, but there is other evidence besides the loops and whorls of script. Saddam had himself photographed not long ago in a replica of the war chariot of Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian king whom Saddam apparently reveres as his hero. Despite a bout of insanity, which is recounted in The Book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar made his name in history by destroying...
...course, every party has its poopers. Parisians grumbled about draconian parking restrictions. Opposition leaders complained that the three-day affair was costly evidence of Mitterrand's "megalomania" (estimates range from $66 million to $280 million), moving Culture Minister Jack Lang to rage against "grinches and killjoys." But such petty squabbles could not spoil the flamboyant funky fun of the Florida A&M University marching band, gliding in a moonwalk down the Champs Elysees. Nor could they dampen the soaring spirit evoked when American diva Jessye Norman, wrapped in the blue, white and red colors of the French flag, sang...
...told Lucas he wanted to make a James Bond movie. "I have something better than James Bond," Lucas replied, and sketched the scenario for Raiders. The Indy series bears traces of the Bond films in its superhero with an edge of surliness, its globe-girdling itineraries, its villains purring megalomania, its neat blend of macho cynicism and schoolboy pluck. But The Last Crusade has something better than James Bond. It has Sean Connery...