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Returning guest star Jeremy Irons next to be seen as a conniving Pope on The Borgias breaks down her defenses, and the weepy confession is wrenching — but it's not the whole story, and when we meet her dragon-lady mother and equally damaged half-sister, we realize just a what a victim our former prime suspect truly is.
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The more "empowered women" tend to be represented as vixens who manipulate men, dragon-lady executives with little or no social skills and emotionless superheroes.
Christine Bork: Women in Entertainment Christine Bork 2011
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The more "empowered women" tend to be represented as vixens who manipulate men, dragon-lady executives with little or no social skills and emotionless superheroes.
Christine Bork: Women in Entertainment Christine Bork 2011
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So it is with the fourth-season premiere of ABC's Castle (10/9c), a strong episode for Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic as Castle and Beckett work out their issues in the wake of her shooting, his declaration of love (did she hear him?) and more turmoil in the workplace, heightened by a new dragon-lady boss (Penny Johnson Jerald) who has no tolerance for Castle's antics and demands to be called "sir."
Matt's Guide to Monday Night TV: New and Returning Shows 2011
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The more "empowered women" tend to be represented as vixens who manipulate men, dragon-lady executives with little or no social skills and emotionless superheroes.
Christine Bork: Women in Entertainment Christine Bork 2011
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The more "empowered women" tend to be represented as vixens who manipulate men, dragon-lady executives with little or no social skills and emotionless superheroes.
Christine Bork: Women in Entertainment Christine Bork 2011
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She inspires it. & mdash; Alan to son Jake on Two and a Half Men, referring to dragon-lady grandma Evelyn being depressed on her birthday. ...
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Katy was a character, part dragon-lady and part flirt.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Katy was a character, part dragon-lady and part flirt.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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I see that Streep's treatment of the dragon-lady carries more power because everyone around her wants to please her, even though she never has to raise her voice.
When mom became mum mj 2009
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