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The Dalai Lama's pop Buddhism is appealingly self-centered: Happiness trumps everything.
In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.
The group is commended for its ability to tap spirituality without degenerating into self-centered men's-movement histrionics.
British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.
Reiner has the fatted, self-centered TV exec's demeanor down pat, but the movie degrades him while holding the same attitude toward human beings that he has.