Their next project is Phantom: The Ballet. His own show will offer a heady mix of chat "My son said it was stand-up improv, but it's just comedy to me" and tricks "My magic act is different from anybody else's - that's why I've kept eating for the last 30 odd years". It could be argued that Daniels conjured himself into our minds, like an indelible thumbprint on a window pane, without succeeding in a similar assault on our hearts.
For 16 long years, his BBC show delivered a variety package of the bland and the overblown - all spangled blondes, spinning plates and shiny suits. But the nation seemed reluctant to clasp the fun-sized trickster to its bosom. He was lampooned on Spitting Image: his wig would rise up from his pate and spin around of its own accord.
And, after stating his intention to leave the country if Labour won - he now insists this remark was taken out of context - one newspaper sent around a removal van on election day to help him on his way. There was something endlessly smug, and rather too certain, about his public persona.
Neither battily avuncular like Bruce Forsyth nor openly oleaginous like Bob Monkhouse, we watched but were never entirely sure why we were there. Daniels indulges no nostalgia for his television salad days. This stuff is as clever as anything Shakespeare wrote, but it's gone and it will never be seen again. Television, he reminds me, is fifth-grade entertainment.
Those who take the trouble to see him live enjoy an altogether different experience: "A piece of drama, a comedy defiance of natural law. I like the old word 'conjurer' - he's an actor who is playing the part of a person who can apparently do anything. If people were better educated in the world of magic, he would have greater difficulty than he's having. He's not very original. I like glamour. I love fantasy. I'm well aware that the current fashion is to be as grotty as possible, and Blane is of that genre.
But I love to see men and women well dressed, and if they're going to entertain me, I want them to take a bit of trouble. He'll be travelling widely on tour, he explains: "One night in Inverness, the next the Isle of Man. I think I should travel in the most comfort I can give myself, so I drive a Bentley, because it is the greatest touring car on the planet.
Born 62 years ago in South Bank near Middlesbrough, Daniels was an unusually small, and consequently shy, child. That era is gone. Those voters are all too aware of the rigged system that was passed off as free trade, even as the U. Any Republican politician who thinks his constituency is the media and not the voters is in for a rude awakening. Mitt Romney, who once all but rolled over onto his back so Candy Crowley would scratch his belly, has been one of the worst offenders.
Apparently, Crowley is way scarier than Trump, since Romney did not have a bad word for her as she eviscerated his campaign. Even though Utah is not among the most pro-Trump Republican states, Romney's approval is crashing among the broader Republican electorate.
He is of that breed of Republican, following in the footsteps of George W. Bush and John McCain, who would not dare criticize a Democrat, reserving his fiercest barbs for a fellow Republican. Because these politicians become addicted to being a hero in the media's story.
Romney is more Fredo than Lando, too foolish to realize how badly he is being used even as he listens to the media sirens calling from the rocks. It's bad enough when Republican voters see Democrats opposing Trump.
But the way so many Republicans do it is disgraceful and dispiriting. This is not to say the president is above criticism. But adding Republican voices to obvious liberal insanity is a sad spectacle of self-loathing. It's mostly a media phenomenon. If you are a Republican, the media are the enemy. Any Republican who does not understand this dynamic is not fit for office. Barack Obama could always count on full party loyalty, and the media would have crushed any dissenting Democrat voice that broke from him.
Those same media will celebrate any Republican who breaks from their party. John McCain practically built a career out of bowing to the media, and Romney seems committed to being his heir to that party-bucking label. When Republicans go bad, they quickly progress through the seven stages of stupidity.
Earlier today I was writing an article Editor's note: graphic picture included in this link about Kathy Griffin and the hate-filled ideology that she represents, and it got me thinking about a lot of things. I truly believe that her now infamous photograph will turn out to be a defining moment in American politics.
It has become exceedingly clear that Kathy Griffin and those like her have nothing to offer but anger, hate and violence, and that is not a message most Americans are going to embrace. So if true conservatives can start communicating a message of love, peace, prosperity, liberty and freedom that is based on the principles and values this nation was founded upon, there is no way the left is going to be able to compete with that. If we want to make America great again, we need to embrace the things that made us great in the first place.
Unfortunately, the left tends to hate most of those things. In fact, many leftists will actually tell you that America was never great.
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