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Ultimately, Will learns to harness his powers, eventually dropping his true friends for senior student body president Gwen Grayson (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and the rest of the “cool kids.” Will’s parents strongly encourage him to follow his ego, and veteran actors Russell and Preston gleefully play up the ways being a hero can go to your head...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Disney Formula Brings ‘Sky High’ Success | 7/29/2005 | See Source »

...reveal any backstory. "It was about constructing and deconstructing the male archetype," says Cohen. "He has enough male beauty without being pretty, he has the height, he has the physicality, but in the heart of Josh, he has the niceness and the intelligence. Plus, he has the ego. Because none of them are humble." Stealth co-star Jessica Biel sums up the archetype Lucas represents even more bluntly: "He has just enough arrogance to be sexy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: To Be or Not to Be a Hero | 7/24/2005 | See Source »

...enough, you have a high sperm count. Part of the lesson I got from—when I was able to qualify and was actually considering it, even though I had completely dismissed it before the examination—is that there is a strong element of raw male ego within the process...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping for Sperm: Nobel Prizes Wanted | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...reported on theteardown crazein Brentwood Flats, Calif. We live next door to an 11,000-sq.-ft. mansion being built on a 16,000-sq.-ft. lot. The only thing more massive than the structure is the owner's ego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 2005 | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...that establish its historical context and Lincoln's fatalistic attitude about his own safety. The book then shifts to its primary character, John Wilkes Booth. Reduced to a rather flat villain in the collective historical memory, here Booth comes alive as a handsome actor and ladies man whose insatiable ego, as much as a muddled sense of Southern rebellion, drives him to seek the historical stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln's Final Days | 6/25/2005 | See Source »

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