Sentences with word «svengali»

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.

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.

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.

For his part, Mr. Meng, in a brief phone interview in Mandarin, dismissed any suggestion that he was some kind of political Svengali, saying that he was busy minding his lumber business and other interests.

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.

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.

... Original Guy («the high chieftain of The Guys, the longest - serving Svengali and the most - devoted member of Hillary's court of flattering men,» she writes) is Philippe Reines.

As the dawn of Andrew nears Think of Mario in those days gone by who started by recruitin» A combination of those guys Svengali and Rasputin.

By trying to reduce seduction into numbers and becoming an online Svengali.

Michael Shannon's performance as Sunset Strip Svengali Kim Fowley is the standout in the middling 2010 movie «The Runaways»; Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning didn't particularly stand out as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, respectively.

As the titular Svengali, Philip Seymour Hoffman is a terrific blend of patriarchal back - patting and hot air, but this is Phoenix's movie; the moment he realizes his master has nothing left to offer him is as heartbreaking as anything this year.

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.

Weinstein, an Oscar svengali who in previous years was thanked more times than God, was nowhere in sight, banished from the Academy last October after multiple allegations of his predations triggered the #MeToo avalanche.

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.

Theirs was a textbook Svengali - Trilby relationship, and yet, the dynamic is oddly distorted by Dave Franco's involvement.

The only surviving film of a pair of planned projects about the woman who will forever be known as Linda Lovelace, «Lovelace» stars Amanda Seyfried as Linda and Peter Sarsgaard as her first husband, sexual Svengali and tormentor, Chuck Traynor.

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.

-- «My Fair Lady» (1964): Audrey Hepburn's adorable Cockney urchin and Rex Harrison's haughty Svengali make a winning pair, and their cat - and - mouse flirtation lends great heart to this Technicolor dream.

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.

Michael Caine nicely underplays the inherently ridiculous role of a flamboyant pageant contestant svengali; William Shatner is perfect as the pageant's emcee by simply being himself; Candice Bergen is a nice fit as the pageant's high - strung head (and one - time winner).

Seyfried plays the title character, while Peter Sarsgaard co-stars as her husband / Svengali Chuck Traynor.

You might imagine that like true pop svengalis, Activision decided on purchasing Red Octane in 2006 that wholly - owned Neversoft should be rewarded with a surefire new project for its long slog on Tony Hawk.

A great many column inches devoted to the mysterious collector, part Midas, part Svengali, part sensitive and shy human being.

Interestingly, the state AGs unveiled their crusade at a press conference in March with former vice president and climate Svengali Al Gore looking on.

A former investment banker turned «alt - right» media svengali, Steve Bannon was boss at website Breitbart when he met Christopher Wylie and Nix and advised Robert Mercer to invest in political data research by setting up CA.

Following the news that Yahoo will acquire social sharing platform Tumblr for a massive $ 1.1 billion in cash, it's becoming clear that two of these investing svengalis are Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, and Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures.

Bernardo does not find amusing comments that he is some kind of Svengali to his wife, even though Shreibman contents «the whole Indy movement was about making Terry chairman.»

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.

But the scenes of Traynor threatening and battering his wife feel just as phony and unconvincing as the sunnier stuff that preceded them, partly because Sarsgaard — usually a fine and subtle actor — flies so over the top in his depiction of a creepy Svengali.

Perhaps the most high - profile recent use of the Svengali defense came over a decade ago in the defense of Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, a 17 year - old who participated in a three - week shooting spree around the Washington, D.C. area in 2002 with John Allen Muhammad, a 40 year - old former National Guardsman.

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.»

He became a svengali with the ball.

Well said Rush what's the point when your team wins you still abuse the players and manager at the same time you want quality players to come to arsenal, I just don't get it, when we loose have a go if the players didn't put in a good shift and if we win appreciate it not this svengali attitude of fans especially from this site let's be objective people and give praise when we win and moan rightly so when we loose, Arsenal For Ever!»

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.

Often seen as a Svengali type figure who lurks in the shadows, Steve Hilton is not another Peter Mandelson.

Steve Hilton, the Svengali figure credited with rebranding the Tories, used to attend, but recently his appearances have been limited, as he prepares to move to California.»

Whether youre a furry having trouble finding a friend, a clown searching for a companion or the Svengali of Amish singles, this slideshow is bound to get you a date.

Whether you're a furry having trouble finding a friend, a clown searching for a companion or the Svengali of Amish singles, this slideshow is bound to get you a date.

The backwoods brothers recreate television shows because the Svengali mother «take's what's good from the city and leaves the rest».

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).

In the film, a mix of the tale of Svengali and of Hans Christian Anderson's story about a ballerina who couldn't remove the red shoes and was doomed to dance to her death, actual ballerina Moira Shearer is the dancer made successful by a jealous ballet impresario, though she loves a poor composer.

8:00 pm — TCM — My Fair Lady George Cukor finally won an Oscar in 1964 for this film, a high - quality adaptation of Lerner and Loewe's musical, itself an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, itself based on the Greek story of Svengali and Trilby.

In a Rotten Tomatoes era which has a Svengali effect on the box office, Fifty Shades movies are critic - proof, and film reviewers aren't any more forgiving slamming this James Foley - directed title with a 13 % Rotten score, the second lowest of the three (Fifty Shades of Grey earned a 25 % Rotten and Fifty Shades Darker logged a 10 % Rotten score).

for the sake of his Svengali - like coach.

There's little doubt that his empire was battered by the tumbling, post-crash contemporary art market, but the former schlock poster purveyor - turned - art - world - Svengali, will continue to expand.