There has to be an even better term for Stern than Svengali... I believe he was behind her demise. Sounds like he got hold of her when Howard Marshall died and pretty much destroyed her and her son... I just pray for the baby.
I think '$terning' or some other HK$ reference will become part of the lexicon..ie, to '$tern is to conspire and control.' Kinda like 'google' means to look for...
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I'm all for calling him Wormtongue. Someone upthread made the reference and I think they were spot on.
From Wikipeda...lol
Gríma, called (the) Wormtongue, is a fictional character in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He appears in the second and third volumes of the work, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. He is introduced in The Two Towers as the chief advisor to King Théoden of Rohan and henchman of Saruman. Gríma is known as an archetypal flatterer, liar, and manipulator. The name 'Gríma' possibly derives from the word gríma meaning mask in several Germanic languages such as Old English, Old Norse, Old High German and modern Icelandic.
As Tolkien writes in Unfinished Tales, Gríma may even have given Théoden "subtle poisons" that caused him to become frail and appear to age even more. (Hmmmmmmm)