These boys were like a family, and with the help of svengali board manufacturer Skip (Ledger, A Knight's Tale), they enter and begin winning contests around the country. (qwipster.net)
Arthur Finkelstein, a reclusive political Svengali who revolutionized campaign polling and financing and helped elect a bevy of conservative candidates, including President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, died on Friday night in Ipswich, Mass., where he lived. (nystateofpolitics.com)
The appeal of Lovelace to the emotions, in its simplistic characterisation of Chuck Traynor as Svengali, becomes pornographic, in this sense, when Anthony Romano oversees Chuck's beating, at which stage viewers will probably take delight in seeing this exploitative man getting what he deserves. (filmireland.net)