O'Connell isn't afraid to be honest and vulnerable, little wonder his younger self was first captivated in 1989 by the tall, dark and laconic Michael Keaton as Batman.
Self-propelled flight has captivated minds for millenia, and while today we have hang-gliding, parasailing, wingsuit flying, and this pedal-ed, human-powered helicopter, no one has been able to do it by flapping.
It is hard not to be captivated by Garbo, who self-mockingly describes herself as "a great gloomy Swede" and whose aloofness conceals a considerable acuity.
When the novelist Jane Smiley dyed her hair blond, she found herself captivated by the image of her new self in the mirror.
Carson now says that his political outlook began to shift in the nineteen-eighties, when he found himself captivated by President Reagan's message of "self-empowerment".
For years Rabbi Menachem Youlus, a self-described "Jewish Indiana Jones," received plaudits from those captivated by his stories of traveling to Eastern Europe and beyond to search for historic Torahs that were lost or hidden during the Holocaust.
Rikardo Druškić is a self-taught illustrator and digital artist whose intriguing simplicity has captivated admirers.
In the 1960's and 70's, Carlos Castaneda captivated millions of readers with his tales of self-discovery under the influence of peyote, jimson weed and other hallucinogens.
It might as well be said that the film industry reaped a benefit from Marilyn Monroe's popularity; she, too, captivated the "hungry-hearted," and vanished in a haze of self-medication and aborted relationships.
Her imagination was captivated by these anecdotes of irrational urges that led to violence and self-destruction.
