Well, Duterte will be wise to carefully watch the fate of his fellow democratically elected leaders in India, Indonesia and Turkey who, despite their larger-than-life charisma, have had to constantly wrestle, with varying degrees of success, against the weight of bureaucratic inertia, political opposition and vested interest.
But on the other, they also looked and acted a little like they'd wandered in from a discarded Quentin Tarantino B movie … Still at least Bronn and Jaime's big adventure is proving as entertaining as promised, filled with snide remarks, amusing theories of life, and charisma to spare.
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's follows the objects and the humans that drive the venerable entity that is Bergdorf's, both elements equally personality driven, where gowns and windows have as much life and charisma as do the personal shoppers, owners, clients and designers who call this place Fashion Home.
Warren initially brought it to life, and her charisma and rock-star status was a powerful early draw.
I was among a bunch of friends who gathered only last month in Glasgow to celebrate her life and everlasting charisma, 10 years later.
When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma.
While for his entire life, Ali's charisma had been outstanding, his oratory skills were far from well refined.
This article is not suggesting to be a pushover or a doormat but it is rather how to negotiate the terrain of life with class, charisma and compassion.
If you ask me, it's obviously the mind trick, with its real-life analogies of charisma and hypnosis, not to mention its failure to defy any major laws of physics.
