The ease with which Frederica von Stade can transcend her familiar boyish persona and nice-guy image should no longer come as a surprise, but the depth of her portrayal here, with world-weariness and cynicism festering under a beauteous surface, was remarkable.
For all her semi-feigned annoyance at the attention to his boyish looks, his image makers believe that the contrast between the senator and his wife helps him.
"On air, he transformed into an icon.… He wanted to be a symbol, and to that end he cultivated his boyish, all-Israeli image". One of the rewards of television stardom was a web of connections, friendships with leading bankers and entrepreneurs.
Brooks's performance, that tiny secret smile playing across her blank face framed by that black helmet street urchin haircut, transformed her into the world's first great screen icon, the eternal child woman, a boyish femme fatale whose image would haunt the 20th century.
But very little about Mr. Tetzlaff, still boyish at 38, fits the image of the virtuoso violinist.
Jerry Maguire, on the other hand, cannily sanded down the sharp corners of that persona, exposing more boyish weakness than boyish bravado in that all-American image.
But with the same boyish smile that instantly became a key image of that election quickly spreading across his face once more, it's clear the answer is no.
In 2004, he had to retire early after dismissing the discovery at his seminary of a large cache of child pornography and images of young priests having sex as "boyish pranks".
Mr. Quayle, aware that his boyish appearance might hurt him, tried to present a studious image during the campaign.
