Ed harris omitted, a bad oversight - but why must I write 10 long lines? I resent that.

Rating: Null/10 (3 June 2006)

You left Ed Harris out of the credits despite the fact that he plays a key role (Christof, creator of fictional Truman Show) and received an Oscar nomination for his acting in the film! Harris is, of course, a fine actor, who was also nominated twice before for roles in "Pollock" (he played the title character) and "Apollo 13." As creator of, essentially, Truman's life in the film, writer of the generalized story line given to actors, director and supervisor of all else relating to the television production, he is a kind of father to the Truman character. 1-6 of 6 pages with references to multiple selves inside this book: Return to book 1. on Page 16:
"... argument is the proposal that social saturation brings with it a general loss in our assumption of true and knowable selves. As we absorb multiple voices, we find that each "truth" is relative to our simultaneous consciousness of compelling alternatives. We come to be aware ..." 2. on Page 71:
"... dismay. The drama has so often been played out on television and movie screens that one is already prepared with multiple options. If one wins a wonderful prize, suffers a humiliating ... To put it more broadly, as the century has progressed selves have become increasingly populated with the character of others. 3' We are not one, or a few, but like Walt ..." 3. on Page 72:
"... I am not doing so well." In closely related work, the psychologists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius speak of possible selves, the multiple conceptions people harbor of what they might become, would like to become, or are afraid to become .' In each ..." 4. on Page 150:
"... "playing a role." The sense of self as strategic manipulator derives, then, from the modernist context, in which real, authentic selves existed-or should exist-and to act in any other way was ... sense of superficiality, the guilt at not measuring up to multiple criteria-give way to an optimistic sense of enormous possibility. The world of friendship and social efficacy is constantly expanding, and ..." 5. on Page 157:
"... objects and with his image is played out; we no longer exist as playwrights or actors but as terminals of multiple networks. "21 It would be foolish to propose that a consciousness of relational selves is widely shared in Western culture. However, in many ways one senses its presence in everyday affairs. It is there ..." 6. on Page 249:
"... aspects of the self. Personal identity cannot seem to be fixed. . . . The person experiences himself as many selves, each of which is felt to have . . . ... such an orientation as vastly liberating. In this sensitivity to multiple forms of spirituality, he sees the possibility for a person to "move meaningfully through a pluralistic universe. , By contrast, ..." Return to book