Word: charisma
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...docile avidity, the world has eyed this procession of Madonnas, each one an incendiary variation on the last. The gag is that despite some fine screen work, she has never quite made it in Hollywood, a failure of the moguls, who haven't figured out how to channel her charisma. She is not one to wait for other people to do her a favor. So Truth or Dare serves as a kind of blueprint for alert auteurs. She says, in effect, "Here's a Me -- not the real me, not all of it, anyway, but a movie-marketable Madonna -- that...
...fairly solid cast bolsters this production. Pak is impressive as the troubled prince, his charisma carrying him through most of the difficulties of the production. Explosive throughout his early scenes, Pak remians believeable while expressing both sorrow and rage. Particularly during Hamlet's early moments of madness, Pak commands the audience's complete attention. Disappointingly, he loses some of his vitality in the second half of the show...
...charisma were all that counted, Ed Sullivan should have been pink-slipped after his first broadcast (on what was originally called Toast of the Town) in 1948. Yet for 23 years after that, for millions of Americans, Sunday night at 8 belonged to CBS, home of television's longest-running prime-time vaudeville, The Ed Sullivan Show...
...work. And the work is suffused with the man's traits: his extreme machismo, his predatory eye (the Andalusian mirada fuerte, or gaze of power, which, as Richardson rightly argues, was one of Picasso's fetishes), his belief in the magic power of images, his emotional cannibalism, his charisma and sardonic wit. Richardson shows how these developed in the young Picasso while debunking such legends as the notion that he drew like a child prodigy, a visual Mozart...
...role allows and the moment demands. He embodies the primal male caged in modern society, ever raising the ante on his own anarchic instincts. To call him a bear of a man is to give bears too much credit; they have not his strut, his growl, his formidable charisma. It is said that when French bears see a particularly imposing member of their species, they exclaim, "Ah, mon Dieu! Un Depardieu...