In George du Maurier's Trilby, the 1895 novel that coined the term "Svengali," a hypnotist named Svengali teaches a young girl with an untrained but remarkable voice to sing.
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CAVUTO: Austan Goolsbee, the former economic Svengali for Barack Obama.
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John Carreyrou certainly painted him as a kind of Svengali figure.
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Politicians can resemble automatons, mouthing the directives of some offstage Svengali.
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Would Brock become the left's Steve Bannon, part propagandizer, part political Svengali?
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But, with or without the American Svengali, populists seemed in the ascendant.
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George W. Bush installed Karl Rove, his personal political Svengali, in the White House.
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Meet Barack Obama&aposs economic Svengali, who is just as concerned, maybe more concerned.
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There's no singular Svengali pulling her strings here: the through line is Cardi herself.
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If Phil Spector isn't the first pop music Svengali, he's certainly the most infamous.
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The affair, however, was tumultuous and abusive — she had a Svengali-like hold over me.
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THE term "Fifth Beatle" conjures up the impression of a Svengali or sinister éminence grise.
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Even after his death, many who knew the pop Svengali remain conflicted about his legacy.
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And he has portrayed himself as a Svengali too likable to be a sexual predator.
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"I thought Harvey was hung up on her in this Svengali kind of way," Tarantino continued.
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"I thought Harvey was hung up on her in this Svengali kind of way," he said.
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The old tale of Svengali and ingenue continues to endure in the present-day music scene.
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A Svengali manipulating his Trilby, corseting women to a man's vision of how they should look.
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His most conspiracy-minded critics talk about a "Kochtopus" and imagine Charles as a cartoonish Svengali.
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He understands that if you want to be the Svengali, you have to play the sycophant.
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But his Svengali, Steve Bannon, frequently cites Jackson as a role model for the new president.
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His most conspiracy-minded critics talk about a "Kochtopus" and imagine Charles as a cartoonish Svengali.
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Lou Pearlman, the Svengali behind the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, has died at the age of 62.
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Underground chemists spoke with reverence of a Svengali who produced and sold them high-quality sports drugs.
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The episode's most compelling moments juxtapose Gabriel's relationship with God against Negan's Svengali spell over the Saviors.
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The American president's former Svengali is palling around the Continent with a far-right Hungarian prime minister.
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Her increasingly deadlocked Svengali, Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen), also notices something he doesn't like: Sansa's ongoing independence.
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He is not a Svengali; he's a shipwrecked banker who washed ashore and wound up the president's ventriloquist.
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" There's also a large card-catalog-like cabinet, its drawers fitted with teasing labels like, "Svengali. Stripper. Invisible.
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Anyone who believes that Bannon or any other Svengali had "concocted a victory strategy" was "foolish," Robinson added.
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The entire fiasco was so intense, host-slash-Bachelor Nation Svengali Chris Harrison was eventually dispatched to find Colton.
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Instead, that understated confidence and blend of intimacy and anthemic sensibilities won over fans like pop Svengali Mark Ronson.
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He comes across less as a thinker than as a Svengali who seduces and humiliates his young Jewish pupil.
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In-The-Know: Lou Pearlman, the Svengali behind the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, has died at the age of 62.
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She jumped out of bed, rushed over to Paramount to consult with her Svengali, Travis Banton (the well-known costumer).
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Week in and week out, Mr. Dan is the well-rehearsed host and Svengali of this speakeasy in Silver Lake.
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Dubbing Jimmy a "Svengali," Chuck agrees to use his expertise in compliance law to sway Mesa Verde back toward HHM's arms.
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Unlike many female stars of her generation and stature, she has rarely ceded control to any manager, or mate, or Svengali.
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" And, most ominously, Bannon promised McConnell and former Bush White House political Svengali Rove that "your day of reckoning is coming.
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Moreover, Mr. Bannon's Svengali-style reputation has chafed on a president who sees himself as the West Wing's only leading man.
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But he dismisses McLaren's portrait of himself as a rock 'n' roll Svengali who called the shots and manufactured the outrage.
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So the relationship was extremely close, and he has been described as anything from an extra Mercer family member to their Svengali.
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Neither Bush, nor his supposed svengali, Vice President Dick Cheney, sought to remake Iraq in our own image by invading in 2003.
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The idea that Bannon is a Svengali-like political wizard stems—understandably, but not altogether logically—from the fact that Trump won.
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Early in his later marriage, the news media sometimes referred to Mr. Smith as Ann-Margret's Svengali, suggesting that he manipulated her.
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This contrast, between the ideological Mr Bannon and the malleable president, gave rise to a caricature of Mr Bannon as a malevolent Svengali.
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He held court in his office like some kind of skate Svengali or clairvoyant, telling you who he liked and who he didn't.
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He fancies himself a media Svengali, but has utilized celebrity politicians and pundits to push forward his own career, rather than vice versa.
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But Sudanese suspicions of Saudi motivations were heightened in the past week with the return to Khartoum of a controversial, Svengali-like figure.
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Mr. Young has called the film a thesis on the psychology of destructive relationships (John exerts an abusive, Svengali-like influence over Evelyn).
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Enter Mr. Johnson, a politician known for colorful speech and disdain for fact, and his Svengali-like adviser on Brexit tactics, Dominic Cummings.
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Enter Mr. Johnson, a politician known for colorful speech and disdain for fact, and his Svengali-like adviser on Brexit tactics, Dominic Cummings.
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There is little documentation from the Velvet Underground period, for example, and scant trace of Andy Warhol, the group's early manager and Svengali.
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The group's svengali, the father of the smallest kid and penner of that dire ditty, "Freedom's Call," Jeff Popick, has said he's suing Trump.
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"It is the single biggest deficit (in the White House)," one person close to the President said of his lack of a political svengali.
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ANONYMOUS You have really loaded your letter with red herrings: your daughter being transgender, her Svengali partner, even the misdirection with polyamory and miniskirts.
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Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, deputy campaign chairman, personal lawyer/fixer, longtime political svengali and national security adviser have all been implicated or pleaded guilty.
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He cast as false the perception that Mr. Bannon had ever played a Svengali-like role in the presidential campaign and the White House.
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The weekend would see Fox News host Sean Hannity spar with James Carville, the one-time Democratic Svengali, who hasn't been relevant since the '90s.
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The media has cultivated the reputation of Steve Bannon as chessmaster and puppeteer, both Rasputin and Svengali, a consigliere with a well-worn library card.
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Mr. Trump was irritated by a book, "Devil's Bargain," that portrayed Mr. Bannon as a brilliant political Svengali but put Mr. Trump in a supporting role.
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Wolfe draws some parallels with today's Trump era (beyond those of fear, division and deception, there is a direct link: McCarthy's henchman Roy Cohn became Trump's Svengali).
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The lawsuit depicts a man who was more like a savior or a Svengali than a counselor, using his power over Doe to make her dependent on him.
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Consider the most egregious Svengali relationships: Mariah Carey was 18 years old when she met 39-year-old Tommy Mottola, the head of Sony Music at the time.
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But under Mr Johnson and his Svengali-like adviser, Dominic Cummings, who masterminded the Leave campaign, the Tory party has become not just pro-Brexit but pro-no-deal.
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But a new executive order, politicizing the process for national security decisions, suggests Mr. Bannon is positioning himself not merely as a Svengali but as the de facto president.
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Mixing metal's momentum and attitude with healthy doses of spookhouse atmospherics and black magic psychedelia, band svengali Anders Manga has crafted a record that goes straight for goth's dark heart.
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Kushner, who earned Trump's confidence during the 2016 campaign, has jostled for primacy with Trump's Svengali, Stephen Bannon -- but the President, who describes himself as a fighter, likely admires this aggression.
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If anyone can build a bridge between those Labour members who still care about winning elections and those Corbynites who are having doubts about their gormless Svengali it is Mr Smith.
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Bannon could occupy something of a mysterious Svengali role in the tradition of presumed all-powerful presidential whisperers like Karl Rove (for George W. Bush) and Valerie Jarrett (for Barack Obama).
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" Boot thinks this is an exaggeration, and a lot of his book is committed to restoring a sense of proportion to his subject's image as a political Svengali, or "Lawrence of Asia.
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To extricate herself from the Rosses' Svengali-like clutches, she married Harry Falk, an assistant director on "The Patty Duke Show," when she was still a teenager; the marriage ended in divorce.
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Yet this week Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson's Svengali-like adviser, suggested that it was now too late for MPs to stop Britain leaving without a deal on October 31st, the latest Brexit deadline.
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Some people who have observed the Mercers' political evolution worry that Bannon has become a Svengali to the whole family, exploiting its political inexperience and tapping its fortune to further his own ambitions.
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In 1894, George du Maurier published "Trilby," a fabulously successful novel that centers first on the fresh sensuality of the eponymous heroine/victim, then on her manipulation and downfall at the hands of Svengali.
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Nadler was born in Brooklyn in 21990 and educated at Stuyvesant, the selective public high school, where his campaign for student-council president was managed by Dick Morris, the future Clinton-era political Svengali.
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The deaths of her father and daughter followed, and her remaining child, the feckless King Tommen, was co-opted first by his wife Margaery and then by a religious zealot Svengali, the High Sparrow.
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One comes from Michael Wolff, whose jaw-dropping (and thinly sourced) tales of White House dysfunction in "Fire and Fury" cost Steve Bannon, Trump's onetime Svengali, both his media platform and his billionaire patron.
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His part in the story has been expanded beyond the historical record, to the point that he is seen acting as a kind of Svengali to the police and prosecutors working on the case.
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What got Bannon in trouble: Axios AM is told that President Trump didn't like the stories about Bannon as the Svengali, or leaks against Jared and Ivanka, or planted stories that he blamed Bannon for.
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It tells the story of Harvey Levin, the host and reigning svengali of the shrieking weird-eyed celebrity gossip concern TMZ, sitting down for a rare one-on-one meeting with President Trump last week.
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I think sometimes — and again, this is just me pontificating without fact, my take as being a media observer, and I don't know the Apple people well — is they get taken in by svengali sometime.
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Virgil Abloh—the man behind collaborative streetwear machine OFF-WHITE, Kanye West's symbiotic Svengali, and Martha Stewart fanatic—is always very busy, but these past few weeks, his tasks have felt a bit higher profile.
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Thus her chief musical collaborator is Taylor/Sia/Carly Rae helpmeet Jack Antonoff rather than New Zealand svengali Joel Little, and it's Antonoff plus the extra grain in her voice that make the difference here.
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Although he was sometimes positioned as a sort of Svengali character – powering the career of girl group Vanity 6 and perpetually surrounded by women on stage and off – he knew talent when he saw it.
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Another great tidbit from Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, and Glenn Thrush's piece on Bannon: Moreover, Mr. Bannon's Svengali-style reputation has chafed on a president who sees himself as the West Wing's only leading man.
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After taking one last meeting with her would-be Svengali, Sansa showed how much she'd learned by luring him into a fatal setup, outlining his many offenses against the Starks as he groveled for mercy.
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"With his hypnotic Svengali look, reaching through the television into housewives' homes—white housewives' homes in Southern California, then other places in the country—he was establishing an emotional, intimate connection, as an Indian," Smith says.
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Propped against a sofa tinted in a soothing shade of green, he was a picture of serenity, nothing in his look or manner suggesting the kind of flash you would expect from a red carpet Svengali.
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Now, in the same week that teen-pop Svengali Lou Pearlman died, my friend's brother's homemade Britney porn seems a sort of allegory for all the ways we have used and abused America's first pop princess.
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Pillsbury prides himself on playing a Svengali-like role with Trump on all things China, and it is clearly a more accommodationist role in line with the approach of previous administrations than with Trump's original inclinations.
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STEVEN KURUTZ There are many sartorial delights in "What's Love Got to Do With It," the harrowing biopic of Tina Turner's life starring Angela Bassett with Laurence Fishburne as Ike Turner, her vicious Svengali and batterer.
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No presidential adviser in recent memory had so brazenly tried to consolidate power as Mr. Bannon, who moved quickly to establish himself not just as Mr. Trump's Svengali, but as a kind of de facto president.
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Somehow Kellyanne Conway, "counselor to the president" and all-purpose Svengali, has persuaded him to tiptoe around racial politics and simply ignore the constant left-wing protests, which has increased the protests' fury, but also their unpopularity.
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Though he comes across in his own writings as witty and self-aware, the picture that emerges decades later is of a moody, manipulative Svengali, blinded by his ego to what was really happening on the raft.
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Serk, an outstanding high school soccer player, is the group's Eazy-E, a jocular former hypeman with a sticky flow who, unlike the late N.W.A. svengali, gets his loose curls from his Nicaraguan matronage instead of Soul Glo.
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To be fair, Kelly does seem to have more authority than Reince Priebus, who was forced to be part of a bizarre three-headed dragon along with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his svengali Steve Bannon.
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An impressionable young teenager — usually female, although not always — is lured to Hollywood with the promise of fame and fortune by an older Svengali type, only to be manipulated and controlled in an emotionally and physically damaging way.
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The city was also home to one of America's greatest political machines, put together by a local boy, Mark Hanna, an iron-and-steel magnate turned political Svengali, and his front-man, William McKinley, from nearby in Ohio.
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In reality, though, Laffer is a Svengali or huckster who holds unconscionable influence on one of America's two major parties, despite his ideas having been discredited—and not only by critics on the left—from the very beginning.
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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.
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She took on Newt Gingrich over his "anger issues" in October, sparred with the Republican Svengali Karl Rove over his electoral math in 2012 and challenged the conservative radio host Mike Gallagher over his dismissal of maternity leave.
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This is as opposed to the past season, when Phil Jackson, the Knicks' busted valise of a Svengali, turned to two former Chicago Bulls stalwarts, Joakim Noah and Derrick Rose, to serve as the pillars of the team.
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On the centenary of the assassination of the Romanovs' Svengali on December 30th, the republication of Yusupov's memoir provides a timely glimpse into the charmed, doomed world of the Russian aristocracy, and its hectic collapse amid the Bolshevik revolution.
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But while Ike, for his sins, winds up a pariah and eventually dies of an overdose, Anna, rechristened Tina by her Svengali-like husband, rises from the depths, to greater glory solo than she ever achieved under his boot.
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As the allure of Svengali-type songwriters like Dr. Luke and Max Martin has fallen out of fashion (if not out of radio rotation), a crop of young female polymaths, including Julia Michaels, Charli XCX and Emily Warren, has grown.
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Sizemore's triumphant second act was called into some question in 2012, when Colin A. Ross, a psychiatrist specializing in dissociation, published a book, "The Rape of Eve," in which he accused Dr. Thigpen of having exercised an unethical, Svengali-like influence over Mrs.
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I mentioned the Svengali dilemma to a friend who, half-joking, asked why there couldn't be a support system of all the female artists who've already navigated the industry, from Queen Latifah to Lita Ford to Lady Gaga, to guide newbies through it.
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But that may be intentional: There appears to be little desire on the part of the creators for the opera's Mark to be the strange Svengali-Pygmalion figure — part hero, part villain, part weak, part strong — he is in the novel and film.
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Although his role in the ostensibly all-female group is difficult to define, Mr. Verzilov — who has a Canadian passport and speaks flawless English — emerged as its de facto svengali, touring the world with Ms. Alyokhina and Ms. Tolokonnikova following their release.
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Unbuttoned Jean-Paul Goude, the photographer-illustrator-filmmaker-advertising maven-former Grace Jones paramour/Svengali responsible for the Paper Magazine cover of an oiled and naked Kim Kardashian West that "broke the internet" in 2014 has added another hyphenate to his string.
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Last year, media outlets as diverse as Time magazine and the comedy show "Saturday Night Live" portrayed Bannon, Trump's election campaign strategist, as the power behind the president, an unshaven, shabbily dressed Svengali bending the Republican Party to his economic nationalist agenda.
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Lefty and liberal Twitter, not to mention all of your Jewish friends and mine on Facebook, have gone nuts, perhaps understandably: it's the incipient Fourth Reich, and erstwhile Breitbart publisher and current Trump Svengali Steve Bannon is its Goebbels, or at least its Leni Riefenstahl.
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"She's a star and once this album drops the take over will begin," stylist Oluwabukola Becky Akinyode says of her friend and occasional client Kelsey Lu, the singer/songwriter/cellist who The Guardian described as "the strings svengali," in a December "one to watch" profile.
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It's a trope that first found its light with "Trilby," George du Maurier's 1894 gothic melodrama, now best known in the 1931 film version, "Svengali," in which John Barrymore's ultracreepy vocal coach (the title role) makes crazy eyes at a naïve soprano, Marian Marsh's Trilby.
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Indeed, it isn't the YouTube video which lights the blue touch paper under Ally's solo career, but a British manager (Ravi Gavron) who approaches her at one of Jackson's concerts and waves a contract in her face, like every villainous Svengali since 1937, if not before.
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Another man admitted he was skipping out on work to be in line, and noted it wasn't the first frenzy he'd been a part of -- he'd been a regular on iPhone lines back when Apple was run by Steve Jobs, that early Svengali of momentum marketing.
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Thus — whether by instinct or because that is what their Svengali stylists taught them — the best-dressed men at the 88th annual Academy Awards ceremony evinced faith in the simplicity of proper evening clothes, with the result that this was among the most stylish Oscars ceremonies in recent years.
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Even as controversies stack up and the #jakepaulisoverparty hashtag circulates, Mr. Paul is leveraging a Johnny Knoxville taste for outrage with mogul-size ambition to build an empire out of that sprawling Beverly Grove house, serving as a Svengali and star maker to the YouTube stars of tomorrow.
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Unlike two other recent books about the 2016 election, "Shattered," by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, which focuses on the dysfunction of the Clinton campaign, and " Devil's Bargain," by Joshua Green, which dissects the relationship between Trump and his Svengali, Steve Bannon, Tur's account has no juicy insider details.
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Anyone who followed the past two years of torrid headlines and televised newscasts knows what happened next: Edmonson was lured into Nxivm, a cult masquerading as a self-empowerment group, whose sadistic Svengali, Keith Raniere, was convicted in June on charges of conspiracy, forced labor, racketeering and sex trafficking.
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Almost as quickly as fans began worshiping her as "mom!" and "queen!" in comment sections, Ms. Cottrill inspired a digital counter-movement that questioned whether some shadowy Svengali had engineered her success — conversations not unlike the skepticism and conspiracy-mongering that accompanied the rise of Lana Del Rey and Lorde.
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" As in his first novel, "Gorgeous," about a plain-looking girl from nowhere mystically summoned to Manhattan to meet a fashion Svengali who changes her into the world's most beautiful person, the quips fly with the wit of an Oscar Wilde for the Nickelodeon set: "Eye shadow isn't a lie, it's a higher truth!
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Conjured into being by Jacques Morali, the French Svengali responsible for unleashing the Village People on an unsuspecting and slightly suspicious public, Like an Eagle, like most disco LPs, is far from flawless, but its six strutting, tumescent tracks tell an important story—perhaps the story that disco was born to tell in the first place.
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He was the man who is widely credited with being the political Svengali that masterminded the upset victory of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
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" And if that doesn't convince you Gilead is an overblown cult simply missing its Svengali-esque founder, here is Stein's "short formula" to figuring out if a cult is trying to recruit you: "Watch out if a person or group tries to isolate you from your previous friends and family under whatever guise, tries to position themselves as the only source of good, and then creates a situation of chronic stress or fear.
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For a 21st-century scam, it has the vintage touch of Billy Joel suing his ex-manager for $90 million in 1989; of the Stones flinging lawsuits at Allen Klein and his notorious grip on their publishing rights; of boyband Svengali Lou Pearlman lifting money from the Backstreet Boys and plunging it into the Ponzi scheme for which he served eight years in prison; of Leonard Cohen's former manager serving time after allegedly stealing millions from him, then harassing him.
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