Echoing a quote from John Lennon—“We are all Christ and we are all Hitler”—Goldman says that, virtually without exception, the superstars he has studied and written about are fixated on two characters in history: “Jesus and Adolph Hitler, and the common element there is simply megalomania,” he said. “There’s nothing more fundamental to the show-business personality than the feeling that you are good and you have this awesome power. And when you start to lose this power, that creates a real problem.
