Word: selfishness
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...willing to impregnate her. Her good friend Brendan Boyle (Billy Meleady), a gay hair dresser, seems to be the most sensible choice, although choosing the worthiest father is apparently not Barbs' chief concern, since eventually the child's paternity will be called into question. Barbs is too selfish and flighty to be taken very seriously by the audience. Her angst is more the product of an impending mid-life crisis than of any serious problem in her life. As her mother, Sadie Kirkwood (Patricia Pellows in a superb performance) points out, Barbs just needs to "lighten...
...could argue that we are selfish, and spoiled rotten. We think too much about ourselves, rarely about others, as we ought. Self-obsession has a way of making people angry...
...least of the triumphs of Nicholas Shakespeare's unimprovable (and unstoppably readable) Bruce Chatwin (Doubleday; 618 pages; $35) is that it looks unflinchingly at the vanities, lies and manipulations of a "heroically selfish" man and yet somehow makes him plausibly sympathetic. To understand is to forgive, they say in France, and by poring through the unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should...
...think it's personally selfish," he says. "[But] when people act in their own self interest, they end up doing what's economically best for everyone in the long...
...past few Woody Allen films have flirted, in a provocatively meanspirited way, with the public aspects of his personality. Deconstructing Harry focused on Woody the selfish lover, Celebrity on Woody the capricious star. The new one has reverbs of Woody's Monday-night gigs in a classical jazz ensemble. Sweet and Lowdown is about one sour fellow, but it's another character who gives this minor movie a surprising lilt and afterglow...