self-absorbed

The set-up of "Backrooms" is as such: We're introduced to Imperioli's character — a self-absorbed, award-winning screenwriter — and as soon as it's mentioned that his young son went missing, we immediately know that whatever was done to this boy, he did it.

Writer-director Sylvester Stallone’s attempt to merge a musical with a “Rocky”-like” plot is ham-fisted, ripping off “A Chorus Line” and “All That Jazz,” stripping Tony of his charm and vulnerability and converting him into a self-absorbed jerk.

“He was unhinged, often incoherent, incapable of completing thoughts and sentences when he had points to make, and led into self-absorbed rabbit-holes.”

As soon as Janelle James read for the role of the cheerfully self-absorbed chaos queen that is Principal Ava Coleman on “Abbott Elementary,” she had her down.

As he aged, he also began to put his mark on pompous authority figures, notably in 1998’s “My Date With the President’s Daughter,” in which he was not only an egotistical, self-absorbed president of the United States, but also a clueless father to a teenager girl.