"a legend in one's own mind"

[Charles Doyle]

NY Times, 1 Sept. 1974:  Howard Cosell is "the man whom Johnny Carson once joked was 'a legend in his own mind' . . . ."

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:09:33 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: "a legend in one's own mind"
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>This has been around for a while, though I doubt very much having heard it earlier than this :
>
>  1987 Daniel R. Schwarz _Reading Joyce's_ Ulysses (N.Y.: St. Martin's) 147: Stephen is to date more a legend in his own mind than a legend among his own kind.
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>  IMDb includes a film titled _E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind" (dir. Robert Hegyes) from 1984. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302517/]
>
>  Based, of course, on "a legend in one's own time."
>
>  JL

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