Sentences with phrase «svengali who»

Douglas has to hold her own, not so much with Stoltz as with John Turturro, who plays Joel Millner, the Brill Building Svengali who signs Edna up when no one else will - but changes her name to Denise Waverly without consulting her.

But dominating proceedings is Peter Sarsgaard's Chuck Traynor, Boreman's domineering husband and the creepy svengali who guided a career in skin flicks until she eventually gave up in favour of campaigning anti-pornography work.

Not exact matches

Tsarnaev's defense team is expected to lay out a «Svengali» defense for their client, a strategy named after a character in a 19th century novel and meaning, in a legal context, the defense of a criminal who was «a pawn of a more influential mastermind.»

The Conservative Party has recruited Lynton Crosby, the svengali behind the Australian Liberal Party's recent successes, and Labour has hired David Axelrod, who ran Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.

Also on this train, of course, is Lily's Svengali mentor, the impresario Oscar Jaffee (Peter Gallagher), who after four straight flops needs his Pygmalion to headline his next venture in the theater, an extravaganza based on the life of Mary Magdalene.

In a scenario that borrows from a century of show - business clichés, the gorgeously lifeless Beyoncé Knowles stars as a Diana Ross - like singer who rockets to the top with the help of her Berry Gordy - like lover / Svengali (Jamie Foxx).

Here he's an evil Svengali, who teaches rock»n' roll as an assault on the audience; the girls must batter their fans into submission or admit they're losers.

In both parallel stories, it is the Cecil family of royal advisors — first William (David Thewlis) and then his son Robert (Edward Hogg)-- who act as Svengali to Elizabeth, manipulating her and twisting events to suit their purposes.

Beginning with Eisenberg (here enjoying the role of his young career, at least until someone inevitably casts him as the lead in a Woody Allen biopic), the entire cast — including Justin Timberlake, who plays Napster co-founder Sean Parker as a kind of sleazy Svengali — deliver their lines with deft aplomb.

This was a heroic action, yet in the movie there's something unnerving about this man, and the main thing is that he's played by Michael Shannon, a character actor who specializes in wild - eyed zeal, whether he's saving cops in World Trade Center, attempting to work as a punk - rock Svengali in The Runaways, hunting down Superman in Man Of Steel, or warning his community about the coming apocalypse in Take Shelter.