Seeking a Dog Star From his director's chair in front of a makeshift stage at Pet Supplies Plus in Manhasset, Bash Dibra was searching for fresh faces, charisma and wagging tails.
But, like Rousseff, Serra faces a charisma deficit.
And as his show on 13 January proved, he has all the necessary ingredients for pop stardom: baby-faced charisma, a creamy voice and catchy songs, with a confessional hue to his lyrics that invites fans to play out their own life dramas through his music.
He is the twin victim of the current pop depression and the idiom's appetite for new faces and charisma.
Showing off his sexy bod and bulging biceps, "The Playboy Club" actor poses as the new face of Charisma's Spring 2012 luxury home brand campaign.
Faced with an insistent scrum of international paparazzi, she seemed to gain charisma.
"HitRECord on T.V.," for all Gordon-Levitt's charisma, will face challenges finding an audience.
Like Rousseff in Brazil after Lula, he lacks his predecessor's charisma and faces harsher economic challenges, including nosediving oil prices, sky-high inflation, a rampant black market and worsening shortages of basic goods.
From day one Moyes faced a battle to convince that his face fitted and that he had the football brain, charisma and cojones to be Manchester United manager.
Fitted together like action figures from mass-produced body parts and originally equipped with real bronze weapons, the life-size sculptures have individually detailed faces of surprising charisma.
Perel is small and blond, with an elfin face, intense, peppy charisma, and a Francophone accent that serves to bolster her psychoanalytic and erotic authority.
