Word: svengali
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intermittent depressions, was unable to cope with booking arrangements, and that "sometimes I would need to be treated as a child." Claude knew just how and when to do it. But in the process, says Pet, "he didn't do a Vadim on me" (a reference to the Svengali role French Director Roger Vadim played with his women until he ran up against Jane Fonda...