Talk:Svengali

message: Why don't yer sing as yer bought to sing — yer've got voice enough, any'ow! why don't yer sing in tune'?
Surely "ought to sing"?  A miskeying/mis-scanning in the http://www.hypnosisinmedia.com website? Anyone got the book handy? Flapdragon 18:11, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: as yer hought  to sing (Italics in the original) 1905 George Bell & Sons edition218.214.18.240 (talk) 06:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Quote

message: Most of the information on this page should be moved to the page discussing the Trilby novel.
:Agreed. I've moved it now. --Tysto 22:54, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot summary

message: I seem to remember reading a scifi story that mentioned a pet called a svengali, which emitted psychic happy-vibes when stroked.  Anyone else recall it?  —Tamfang (talk) 06:31, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  scifi pet? 

message: The fairly untalented Philadelphia based band The Disco Biscuits has a song titled "Svengali".
"fairly untalented"? Not very neutral, unless I'm missing something here.SimonJester501 (talk) 14:18, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are absolutely right. I've removed that phrase as POV. -Phoenixrod (talk) 15:03, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral point of view? 

message: This doesn't seem very neutral to me - the article linked to isn't from a mainstream publication, and both examples are right wingers.  Neither one is, as far as I'm aware, generally referred to as a svengali.  If there's a more mainstream article to link to (a NYTimes op ed or such) then I think it would be more defensible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.80.68.18 (talk) 07:00, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rove and Rush Limbaugh? 

message: If you want them in the article, provide references and move them back. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:27, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced trivia items

message: *In an episode of the sitcom "Psych", entitled "American Duos", Shawn and Gus call Juliet a "Svengali" when trying to convince her to be their dance coach.
*In an episode of the sitcom Seinfeld, entitled "The Wallet", Elaine refers to her psychotherapist boyfriend as a "Svengali" because he wields a powerful mental influence over her. She mispronounces the word as 'svenjolly', causing Jerry and George to mock her.
*In the season 1 pilot of the Moonlight TV series, entitled "No Such Thing as Vampires", Beth interviews a suspect who refers to another character as a "Svengali" who brainwashed students, using literary references to vampires, sex and dark desires and seduced them into his cult.
*In the 1950 movie All About Eve, the character Bill Simpson (played by Gary Merrill) says to Eve Harrington (played by Anne Baxter), after she tries to seduce him, "names, I've been called - but never Svengali."
*In the NCIS season 3 episode "Silver War", Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs consoles Mossad officer Ziva David about her half-brother Ari Haswari, whom she had killed, by describing him as a Svengali.
*Season 9, episode 6 of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit the captain refers to a perpetrator as a "Svengali".
*In the Season 2 episode of Venture Bros entitled "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?", Col. Bud Manstrong angrily calls Brock Samson "Svengali" when he finds his mother passed out in Samson's lap.
*Local Chicago, Illinois horror host Svengoolie–originally played by Jerry G. Bishop–takes his name from Svengali
*In a Three Stooges short film "Hokus Pokus" (and Flagpole Jitters), Moe (Moses Horwitz, AKA Moe Howard) introduces actor Jimmy Lloyd, who was portraying a magician, as, "Svengarlic. He'll take your breath away!"
*In the little known but multiple tony award winning musical On the Twentieth Century, Lily Garland, an actress, repeatedly refers to Oscar Jaffe, the producer/director/pretty much everything who discovered her and made her initial career as well as her former lover, as a Svengali
*In an episode of the American comedy show Malcolm in the Middle entitled, "Hal's Friend", Malcolm is called a "Svengali" by a friend's mother after Malcolm convinced his friend to go play paintball with him.
*In the Season 3 episode of The X-Files entitled "Pusher", Agent Scully notices "Svengali" playing on the TV as they enter the apartment of Robert Patrick Modell.
*A hard rock band from Canada that had albums in the early 1990s is named Sven Gali.
*Derren Brown's fifth live tour will be called Svengali, due to the nature of his mentalist acts.
*In one Powerpuff Girls comic book, Him dresses up in a business suit, claiming to be a record executive named "Sven Golly".
*In an early 1960s episode of The Andy Griffith Show, Opey's teacher Helen Crump asked Sheriff Andy Taylor, "Sheriff, what are you, some kind of Svengali?" To the dismay of Miss Crump, Andy had earlier implied to Opey and his friends that they didn't have to study history in Miss Crump's class. To redeem himself in Miss Crump's eyes, Andy later regaled Opey and friends with stories of Redcoats, Indians, Cowboys, guns, the shot heard round the world, and "you know ... history stuff." The next day Opey and friends surprised Miss Crump with their knowledge and enthusiasm about the topic, prompting her to visit Andy and pose the question about Svengali.
*In the movie Falling Up (2009), the main character Henry O'Shea is warned by a taxi driver named Rajib never to trust women. He makes a reference to Svengali saying that a while ago he was very rich, had a house with pool, tennis court and waterfall and a good life and lost everything because of such women.
* American songwriter Steve Taylor wrote a song called Svengali, featuring in the album I Predict 1990
* In the book A Father´s Story: One Man´s Anguish at Confronting The Evil of His Son, serial killer´s Jeffrey Dahmer´s father Lionel Dahmer wrote that upon hearing the news of his son´s crimes, he initially thought that Jeffrey had been brainwashed and manipulted into committing the crimes by a dominant accomplice, a Svengali.
*In the 1953 movie Lili, Paul (Mel Ferrer) is asked if he is a "Svengali".
*In the 1939 movie At the Circus, Punchy (Harpo Marx) is called "Swingali" in the song "Swingali".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.236.212.216 (talk) 06:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Popular culture

message: The article begins: Svengali is a man who seduces, dominates and exploits Trilby, a young English girl, and makes her a famous singer.
I take exception to "seduces."  There is not an iota of evidence in the "Trilby" novel that Svengali seduces Trilby.  Trilby dies as pure as, yes, the driven snow, and more than several times the character Gecko states that Trilby failed to love Svengali as he wanted her to love him.Abenr (talk) 02:15, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  SEDUCES 

message: There is an episode of My Little Pony based on Triiby, with a character based on Svengali, named Sven Gallop. 2600:8800:2221:F500:20E0:9731:2EEA:531C (talk) 04:55, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added this (sourced) to the article. AmauryPi (talk) 09:34, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture inclusions