That's evident in the movie's best scene, when Elena and O come face to face as captor and captive, and O, revealing a sweetly banal attitude toward life, rambles on about her days at a community college and her charmed existence with Chon and Ben.

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There is a sense in which I think that I have led a charmed life, with a wonderful wife, Eileen and three children, one son-in-law and two grandchildren.

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The young man who emerges from Virgil Tanase's biography in particular is seductive, funny and loving, but constantly on the move: between the raw, sun-drenched Mediterranean and cramped, grey Paris, ever in search of respite from crippling bouts of tuberculosis, as well as comfort from the various women he charmed and loved with a passion.

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But as she grew more confident in international circles, she relaxed and charmed many of those she met with her sparkle.

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Within a few years, I released a book, Lives Charmed, which featured juicy interviews with Leeza Gibbons, Arnold Palmer, Catherine Oxenberg, Paul Williams, and Woody Harrelson.

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An avid horticulturalist, he charmed Catherine Deneuve at a dinner party by talking with her for hours about a rare species of peony.

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Many thought that the real reason was that she was an outsider, a brainbox with a provincial background, not a member of the charmed circle of reformers in Warsaw.

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In fact, when the Olympics went head to head with Idol in the 9 p.m. hour, the Games charmed an even larger audience of 30.1 million.

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Bacon charmed the crowd when he quoted from what he dubbed the Holy Book of the South: Gone With the Wind.

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