He was a presence at the Artists» Club, although Cohen - Solal may give a somewhat exaggerated sense of his involvement. (newrepublic.com)
The challenge for some generals is to not exaggerate the sense of crisis as a pretext to engineer their return to power, as was the case with Harry Gray of ITT, William Paley at CBS, and Juan Trippe at PanAm. (fortune.com)
It finds Brooks once again playing himself, this time as a struggling middle - aged actor and filmmaker who accepts a questionable gig as a comic ambassador to the Muslim world (in a neat bit of stunt casting, Fred Thompson, also playing himself, gives Brooks the assignment), partly out of boredom and professional ennui and partly out of a grossly exaggerated sense of his own importance. (film.avclub.com)