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The hope is always there, though, that Lee will transcend his anger and egotism and paranoia and make a film that feels organic--that doesn't add up to another sterling specimen of the "Watch That Man Cook!"
Is all this his special megalomania, or just garden-variety egotism?
That a man could have such a long acting career in and around Hollywood, display none of his profession's characteristic egotism and self-absorption, and maintain close, intimate family relationships, including a 54 year marriage, strikes me as remarkable, indeed.
Toward the end of his life, he wrote: If egotism for a moment is pardonable, no false shame deters me from avowing that, though I have lived away from America upwards of forty-six years, I feel, to this hour, in writing English, that I am writing a foreign language, and that, if not incessantly on my guard, I am in peril of stumbling.
In other words, was the man's egotism always this monstrous?