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"showman" Definitions
  1. a person who is good at getting people’s attention and does things in a way that entertains them
  2. a person who organizes public entertainments, especially at fairgrounds

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There's a Greatest Showman IMAX experience and Greatest Showman sing-alongs, Greatest Showman-themed SoulCycle rides and Greatest Showman sermons across America.
But a crowd showing up to watch a showman doesn't necessarily mean that showman will win an election.
"This Is Me (from The Greatest Showman)," Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble) PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL Boi-1da
"It's Quiet Uptown," the Hamilton tune Clarkson recorded for The Hamilton Mixtape, and "Never Enough," the Greatest Showman tune Clarkson recorded for The Greatest Showman Reimagined, got their own spots.
To find out more, I spoke to six Greatest Showman fanatics, to see why they think it's done so well: So, what's the deal with the hype over the Greatest Showman?
Zac Efron & Zendaya – The Greatest Showman Choice Hissy Fit
CreditCreditPatrick A. Burns/The New York Times Whatever else he was — liberator, totalitarian despot, bombastic blowhard — Fidel Castro was a showman, and Americans, as we know, can be suckers for a showman.
Some, like sovmen (showman) and atasman (attachment), make purists cringe.
WINNER: Zac Efron – The Greatest Showman Choice Drama Movie Actress
The Greatest Showman is Humphrey's first big box office film.
Mr Trump is a showman as well as a pragmatist.
"I think Walt Disney was a wonderful showman," Favreau explained.
And Kai [Samuel] is a complete showman, and sharply intelligent.
"This is Me," The Greatest Showman Best Foreign Language Film
The first trailer for The Greatest Showman is finally here.
We just see the showman — the tweets and everything else.
In "The Greatest Showman" (2017), the actor was Phillip Carlyle.
There's little in The Greatest Showman that's complex or disturbing.
"The Greatest Showman," which was rated PG, collected $174 million.
These are the antics of a showman, not a statesman.
Still, we'd be fools to bet against The Greatest Showman.
He is an excellent showman but an inattentive, impulsive leader.
Far from being a "showman", Nursultan Nazarbayev, the departing president of Kazakhstan, is a shrewd autocrat who has put his country on the map during his 30-year rule ("A showman exits", March 203rd).
WINNERS: Zac Efron & Zendaya, The Greatest Showman Choice Drama TV Show
WINNERS: Zac Efron & Zendaya – "Rewrite the Stars" (The Greatest Showman soundtrack)
The Greatest Showman also starred Zac Efron, Zendaya and Michelle Williams.
He's a brilliant songwriter and musician, and just a flawless showman.
The Greatest Showman is up for three Golden Globes this Sunday.
Farewell beloved Robert, the great showman who taught me so much.
No longer an agitator, Tyler is now something of a showman.
"There's the numeral dexterity, there is being the showman," she said.
The duo will be joined by the songwriter and showman Anderson .
AND – BUT I RECOGNIZE AS I SAID YESTERDAY, IT'S SHOWMAN TIME.
"Wills and I have The Greatest Showman on REPEAT," she tweeted.
We're talking The Emoji Movie, The Greatest Showman, Geostorm, Cook Off!
At the same time, she said, he was a natural showman.
He was Las Vegas personified -- a showman who played to win.
As a showman, Connick delivers the comedy both scripted and improvised.
Trump is a terrific showman, and the press was no match.
Long before he was a politician, Donald Trump was a showman.
It's just always disappointing to see someone with such a big audience peddle such bunk — especially because a showman like Oz is exactly the type of person who could influence a showman like President Donald Trump.
"This Is Me" – Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble Choice Latin Song
The showman will hit the road to promote the LP in March.
The Greatest Showman: Reimagined — also featuring the vocals of Kelly Clarkson, Panic!
Most recently, Jackman played P.T. Barnum in 2017's The Greatest Showman.
It's a stark contrast with the extremely precise showman of other incarnations.
The two actors star in The Greatest Showman, out later this month.
"For guys, that's unrealistic, I'm telling you," said The Greatest Showman star.
Trump the showman Trump loves to be the star of the show.
The showman in him already struggled to emerge from under the uniform.
"The Greateat Showman" is the Australian director's first foray into feature films.
Ever the showman, he may also have something groundbreaking up his sleeve.
She sang and acted alongside Zac Efron in "The Greatest Showman" (2017).
He's absolutely right that Trump is, at heart, a showman and provocateur.
He is unapologetic about being a showman as much as a competitor.
"Remember, Trump is a nothing if not a showman," Mr. Hadley said.
One hundred years ago this fall, a celebrity showman became a strongman.
Trump is a capitalist and a showman, and at heart a pragmatist.
My other daughter watched The Greatest Showman about ten times as well.
But that doesn't mean [McLaren] was not an effective Barnum-type showman.
It's a role that's part father figure, part salesman, and part showman.
He was a showman who desperately wanted the broke Dodgers to succeed.
Unfortunately for her, the songs from Coco and Greatest Showman are favored here.
But Mr Johnson is much more of a showman than a strategic thinker.
He really is a showman, but there actually is a discipline behind it.
Mr Trump did not just show clemency to "Sheriff Joe", an authoritarian showman.
The Greatest Showman wants to work on the circus's level, not the opera.
In his past life as a litigious businessman-cum-showman, NDAs proved useful.
Read on for more of what the critics thought of The Greatest Showman.
Ever the showman, Corbett played it to the hilt, howling, laughing, and clapping.
Johnson is a political showman whose light-hearted wit masks a fierce ambition.
In addition to Jackman, The Greatest Showman also stars Zac Efron and Zendaya.
"So it's tougher for some people to say that I'm just a showman."
A big mouthed showman will have less of an effect the second time.
And he's such a showman, I knew we could put on something unforgettable.
But, like "The Greatest Showman" star, Jordan accessorized the look with chunky rings.
Tributes from entertainers in Britain and abroad poured in for the popular showman.
But I didn't get it: What was so great about "The Greatest Showman"?
"The Greatest Showman" is 105 minutes of pure heart stopping, toe tapping entertainment.
Mr. Trump still views the presidency through the lens of a television showman.
He's a salesman, a showman, a ladies man, a man of the people.
It's another master showman, the one we call president of the United States.
" It also satisfied his inner showman: "I love getting up on the rostrum.
Even so, he said that he has yet to peak as a showman.
Washington (CNN)For once, the ultimate showman gave Republicans exactly what they bargained for.
The Greatest Showman star, 30, stated in an Instagram post — complete with baby goats!
It made him a unique rock'n'roller, both a flamboyant showman and a canny businessman.
Keala Settle performs "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman at the 2018 Oscars.
Fawkes, a British showman, was one of the first to spot this trend, promoting
Ali was an anti-establishment showman who transcended borders and barriers, race and religion.
Mr Hof, a publicity-courting showman, suspects an ulterior motive behind the proposed ban.
A showman to the last, Mr Nazarbayev signed his resignation decree on live television.
There are several top-notch sequences that showcase the performers in The Greatest Showman.
But then why is The Greatest Showman trying so hard to sidestep everything human?
Truth be told, The Greatest Showman is a hollow Christmas ornament of a movie.
So perhaps it's understandable that these two are up there... But The Greatest Showman?
It's relearning that Chuck can be every bit as much the showman as Jimmy.
It became known indelibly as the "Berlin Freedom Concert"; Bernstein was ever the showman.
But Mr. Moore recognizes an affinity he shares with the president — also a showman.
But I am holding onto the very basics — what helped make 'Showman' a hit.
"The Greatest Showman" is the critically panned fan-favorite movie that just chugs on.
Conor McGregor is a showman, a tough customer and a brilliant mixed martial artist.
For a deal maker and showman like Mr. Trump, that would probably be unacceptable.
The perpetual showman reveled in the pageantry that greets a U.S. leader traveling overseas.
Shakespeare was a showman, and his Henry plays played to English jingoism and mythmaking.
As a showman, Barnum went to great lengths to distinguish himself from these swindlers.
As of March 7, The Greatest Showman had made $165,456,962 in the US. Uniting these two questions is a bigger, more complicated one: Why exactly has The Greatest Showman done so well despite a critical consensus that only barely qualifies as "lukewarm"?
Riverdale, The Flash, The Greatest Showman and Love, Simon were among the night's biggest winners.
The Greatest Showman actor, 30, introduced the world to his new fur baby on Instagram.
CLEVELAND— Showman Dana White offered a loud endorsement for another big personality on Tuesday night.
She was super nice, we talked about Easter and going to see The Greatest Showman!
And they'll be back in headlines this winter with their latest project, The Greatest Showman.
"This Is Me" – The Greatest Showman BEST SCORE Alexandre Desplat – The Shape of Water — WINNER
"My kids have so many advantages," the 49-year-old Greatest Showman star tells PEOPLE.
Ostensibly, The Greatest Showman is a story of personal triumph despite great odds and intolerance.
In the Best Picture nominee list, we might say it's filling the Greatest Showman slot.
The soundtrack to "The Greatest Showman" is in fourth place, and XXXTentacion's "?" is No. 5.
Expect Trump to do as the showman Teddy Roosevelt did, but in his own way.
But after his performance in the GOP primary debates, aides caution underestimating the lifelong showman.
He's showing off in front of Netanyahu: Remember that, at heart, Trump is a showman.
"I think he's a showman," the former Massachusetts governor added of the GOP's presidential nominee.
He was a showman, and it's a dark show — the monetizing of hate and outrage.
Milestones and career highlights of Ali, a showman in and outside of the boxing ring.
"He's a gifted — and I say this not in a negative way — showman," he said.
Trump, the reality television star and master showman, made sure the summit was highly staged.
Hugh Jackman's musical drama "The Greatest Showman" is finishing a close fourth with $222.3 million.
Even when it comes to reporting on his health, Mr. Trump goes into showman mode.
I don't if he's written more songs than Bob, but he's more of a showman.
He learns his lesson in the end, and so, The Greatest Showman suggests, should we.
"The Greatest Showman" star posted a photo of himself sporting dreadlocks on social media Thursday.
Multifaceted musician and showman Billy Stritch will join him as pianist and musical director Oct.
Mr. Mars is by turns a showman and an analyst, a preservationist and a peacock.
Stylist Law Roach and Zendaya's Greatest Showman assistant Darnell Appling are reportedly also in attendance.
Or is this one more example of the showman keeping his name in the news?
Kim Jong Un, buttressed by nukes and ballistic missiles, is a different kind of showman.
And when "The Greatest Showman" is done, Mr. Jackman said, his schedule will be clear.
Comey thinks Giuliani is a showman with an insatiable desire for public attention and acclaim.
Examples from the past couple of years include La La Land and The Greatest Showman.
This is far from the first time Dion has become a showman for fans off-stage.
But it's another way that, as a showman, he understands how to get the public's attention.
Initially, Showman was a traditional biopic, but changed after Gracey suggested adding song-and-dance numbers.
Hugh Jackman is giving a little more hope to fans eager for a Greatest Showman sequel.
The magician learns Mario is a waiter, and this occupation sends the menacing showman into a
His supporters viewed all of it as Trump being Trump -- a showman putting on a show.
Where Jobs was a showman, Cook is someone who willingly cedes the stage to his lieutenants.
"Jimmy Kimmel is the consummate showman," Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement.
He has shown that he is incapable of being anything more than an ego-driven showman.
But yes, because Hugh is a showman and I know he'd put on a proper show.
Celebrities, including Yara Shahidi (Black-ish) and Zendaya (The Greatest Showman), have been wearing the shirts.
Ali was always a showman, even in the midst of his most serious and important bouts.
"The Greatest Showman" was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including best movie musical or comedy.
But Trump is a showman, and it's beginning to look like he may get his way.
Nabisco started selling animal crackers in 1902, calling them "Barnum's Animals," after circus showman PT Barnum.
Costume designer Ellen Mirojnick ("The Greatest Showman") did an impressive job making Jolie's scene-stealing looks.
But I'd like to hear from fans of "The Greatest Showman": tell me what I'm missing.
" Natasha Liu Bordizzo, who grew up in Sydney, appeared in "The Greatest Showman" and "Hotel Mumbai.
Then there were the players: a showman president and an ambitious television correspondent in the spotlight.
Only a showman like Mr. Ford could inject this much sex and excitement into one evening.
Then, there was William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, a soldier in the Union army turned showman.
Even his admirers concede that Mr. Trump, a consummate showman, has a gift for tactical distraction.
Ever the showman, Marc Jacobs concluded New York Fashion Week with a theatrical tour de force.
He was an entrepreneur and an opportunist, a showman, a creative dynamo, and a (sometimes inadvertent) visionary.
Trump, the ultimate showman, branding genius, and political neophyte, has shown himself to be a resourceful adversary.
If the narrator is a good showman and they keep it entertaining, then it's a good show.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said he understood that Trump is more of a "showman" in public.
FitzGerald was on Masters of Sex and Sparks on House Of Cards and in The Greatest Showman.
Here are a few: Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was a fabulous pitcher but an even better showman.
To demand some kind of historical responsibility from a movie like The Greatest Showman borders on ludicrous.
It would be stretching it to say that he's glam—but he's an entertainer and a showman.
A master showman with a goldmine of hits, his shows will always have the power to transfix.
It's not enough to be a showman, reasoned the authors, Larry Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley.
All that singing and dancing didn't come cheap and "The Greatest Showman" cost $84 million to make.
Interspersed are interviews with the old-school showman producer David F. Friedman before his death in 2011.
Page was an extrovert even in high schoolPage told Business Insider he has always been a showman.
The largest attendance they had for a gathering was 25, for "The Greatest Showman," Ms. Lee said.
Above all, he is a showman of decisive action, a take-charge businessman who make great deals.
And the soundtrack to "The Greatest Showman," the P.T. Barnum biopic starring Hugh Jackman, is No. 5.
As a showman, Mr. Brown has none of the smarminess of Las Vegas prestidigitators or carnival hucksters.
But he was a canny showman, and knew how to plant an idea when it suited him.
Instead his role is more political than legal -- a combination showman, political attack-dog and Trump whisperer.
"The Greatest Showman" is not a film that Mr. Jackman specifically planned as a pivot from Wolverine.
The undefeated middleweight champion is a true showman, with dynamic entrances and devastating finishes to his fights.
Always a showman, Musk put the truck through its paces in an effort to demonstrate its ruggedness.
"The Greatest Showman": This film, starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, has a release date of Dec.
"When I first met Frédéric, I thought he was kind of a showman and a diva," he said.
He's as much a showman as he is an entrepreneur, and these are all very enticing promotional soundbites.
"The Greatest Showman" songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul are working on new music for Disney's #Aladdin (Watch) pic.twitter.
" Settle is flying into New York specifically to perform "This Is Me" from the film "The Greatest Showman.
The peacock is somebody who is definitely attempting to be the best showman that they can possibly be.
"We're introducing three revolutionary products—an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator," proclaimed Jobs, ever the showman.
It will require a real showman to instill such courage in the current environment of self-defeating austerity.
But Jennifer is a showman; she loves the art of entertaining and taking you out of your reality.
A singing, dancing showman extraordinaire, Mr. Hines is in very fine form, but he is, after all, 72.
The first trailer for 20th Century Fox's P.T. Barnum biopic and original musical The Greatest Showman is here.
Clockwise from top left: A Star Is Born, Bohemian Rhapsody, Mary Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia!
WHEN CRITICS had a go at André Previn in his heyday, the word "showman" was an easy gibe.
Only it was for a different live show, the first-ever live movie trailer for The Greatest Showman.
In the high school cafeteria of awards contenders, The Greatest Showman doesn't really have much of a place.
Mr Modi, despite remaining a masterly showman and wielding an intimidating party machine, is no longer above criticism.
In an act of almost unwitting morale-boosting, an eight-year-old Richie transformed himself into a showman.
This year's stand-out contender for being an outstandingly confusing success is The Greatest Showman (Original Motion Soundtrack).
"This Is Me," The Greatest Showman Seth Meyers is set to host the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards.
He might have arrived as part showman but he remained as a dedicated, serious ambassador for his beliefs.
All it took was the huffing and puffing of a loud-mouthed showman to blow their houses down.
Always a showman who also spent time as a professional wrestler, Greene usually found the path to quarterbacks.
Fortunately, anteing up to take the kids to see "The Greatest Showman" doesn't feel like a sucker bet.
For Donald Trump, ever the showman, the opening of the UN General Assembly offers an irresistible global stage.
He's a showman, same as he ever was, leaning forward onto his mic and trying to consume it.
The Greatest Showman is a movie musical loosely based on the life of circus impresario P.T. Barnum — a.k.a.
During the first half of the twentieth century, Martin Couney, a carnival showman, exhibited premature babies in incubators.
TARA DEMOSS I tried to beg off seeing "The Greatest Showman," and I reluctantly went with my husband.
Then Italy produced Silvio Berlusconi and scandal-ridden showman politics long before the United States elected Donald Trump.
On Sunday night, the P.T. Barnum biopic "The Greatest Showman" won a Golden Globe for best original song.
From their outfits to their decor, the couple channeled "The Greatest Showman" at every turn of their wedding.
But for Mr. Hilfiger, a showman as much as a designer, it appeared to suit him just fine.
There was also a movie in the informal screening room: "The Greatest Showman," a musical about P.T. Barnum.
"The Greatest Showman," another movie musical that the critics panned, grossed $435 million worldwide after a slow start.
They know he was a creative inventor and an illusion-loving showman, but not a very nice man.
If nothing else, Donald Trump the showman kept the attention right where he wanted it — squarely on himself.
"He was strange and absurd, and was too much of a showman, so I was hesitant," she said.
Dawson City was where future movie theater magnate Sid Grauman, then a newsboy, learned to be a showman.
By damaging Trump's reputation as a showman, the DNC's superior ratings don't just hurt him in the election.
And with some luck, The Greatest Showman could just follow in its footsteps, all the way to another Oscar.
Is it because he isn't a showman capable of delivering some interesting pitter-patter at the drop of cap?
It seemed a fitting metaphor for a night on which the usual expert showman was seriously off his game.
Trump the showman can dance around policy pitfalls and distract from some of his less than successful business dealings.
"What in the Stranger Things…" the Greatest Showman actress, 21, tweeted in a reference to the popular Netflix show.
He just fakes his way through them better, and because he's a blusterer and a showman, people don't care.
It's hard to believe The Greatest Showman is only Zendaya's second feature film, the first being Spider-Man: Homecoming.
The Greatest Showman star recently told PEOPLE that a Harry Potter-themed birthday was exactly what she wished for.
But there's one telling difference that suggests we've been overthinking the 2016 campaign: Barry Goldwater was a terrible showman.
The Greatest Showman star recently told PEOPLE that a Harry Potter-themed birthday was exactly what she wished for.
Hugh Jackman is most well known for his roles in films like "X-Men: Apocalypse" and "The Greatest Showman."
Before this beach boy was a famous showman, he was just another sandy sprout growing up in Sydney, Australia.
The Greatest Showman is a version of Barnum's life story, scrubbed clean of the well-documented racist, exploitative bits.
The President's jarring encounter with reality appears to have snapped him out of showman mode, at least for now.
After which you made your passion project, "The Greatest Showman," about P.T. Barnum, which became a box-office smash.
Strikingly, a sizable number of you have seen "The Greatest Showman" two, three and, in one case, 20 times.
She was in the musical biopic "The Greatest Showman" as a trapeze artist, alongside Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman.
The soundtrack for "The Greatest Showman," a persistent chart presence for nearly half a year, fell to No. 5.
But there was something of the practiced showman about him — at least within the restrained format of Senate theater.
An Orlando-based couple named Julia and Kurtis Moellmann had a "The Greatest Showman"-themed wedding in November 2019.
We guess it's possible that not everyone wants to hear the Greatest Showman soundtrack on repeat, but oh well.
Jack is the showman, shameless and volatile, fired up on "patriotism and publicity," with an eye for the women.
In North Korea, there's another showman with hair: Kim Jong-un (whom Trump says he'd be "honored" to meet).
The President is much more of a showman and entertainer who appears to enjoy the political fray and joust.
Mr. Trump's rivals in the Republican primary campaign often criticized him as a showman and not a real executive.
The real Joe Papp, showman that he was, might have deemed "Illyria" too muted and inconclusive to be satisfying.
His skill is being enough of a showman and enough of a wild unpredictable where you can't look away.
He may be a showman, but inspectors general who don't ruffle feathers run the risk of becoming ineffective lapdogs.
In typical fashion for Trump, a former reality TV star and showman, he introduced Gorsuch in a prime-time announcement.
"He is a good showman, I will give you that -- he is a good TV guy," Sanders said of Trump.
Bordizzo played Deng Yan in The Greatest Showman, and also appeared in Netflix's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.
Zayner is a showman, and not everyone in the DIY science community is a fan of his tendency toward flash.
At a certain point, however, Musk the showman stopped being cute and started seeming like the world's most annoying bullshitter.
Trump is a celebrity and a natural showman from America's media capitol who attracts press attention like flame attracts moths.
Affleck comes across as a visual showman concerned not only with what the story is but how it is told.
Because The Greatest Showman is not, in any traditional sense of the phrase, a biographical motion picture about P.T. Barnum.
Opened in 1927, the building had been named for Sid Grauman, a Hollywood showman who helped finance the theater's construction.
The slow, multilateral OECD process is a tough sell for Trump, a showman who likes to make blunt political points.
Always the showman, Trump has little personal incentive to back away from what has now become his brand of speaking.
In this sense, Jackman equates his overarching goal with The Greatest Showman to Barnum's goal with his circus freak shows.
On December 1, he posted a photo of himself on set being embraced by his Greatest Showman costar, Rebecca Ferguson.
"The Greatest Showman" was the 24-year-old's big break, but he's also appeared in "Neighbours" and several theater productions.
The two are currently filming the upcoming musical The Greatest Showman, a fictionalized account of real-life entertainer P.T. Barnum.
The showman says his fame put a strain on their relationship early on after Kief went to a Manilow concert.
The day session on Margaret Court Arena begins with a battle of two Frenchmen, showman Gael Monfils against Nicolas Mahut.
Zidane, the great showman of skilled attacking play, took pride in the pragmatic way that his men had blanked City.
He's the perfect Wolverine, but The Greatest Showman is a chance for him to go back to his musical roots.
Mr Benioff is a key element of the product too; a mix of showman, digital guru, political activist and philanthropist.
All that was needed was a charismatic leader: a showman, a salesman, a song-and-dance man to sell it.
Peeks don't come easy for Mr. Brown, who has always been more of a controlled showman than a freewheeling chef.
Clinton will confront a showman bent on turning the event into less of a debate and more of a spectacle.
Still, the send-off hardly seemed the culminating rally that Mr. Trump, a consummate showman, would have chosen for himself.
And while the success of The Greatest Showman may be difficult to repeat, you can be sure Hollywood will try.
He's a fastidious, resilient showman, fine-tuned and rehearsed down to the stage bows, key adjustments, and inter-song banter.
Also this week, the soundtrack to "The Greatest Showman" holds at No. 2, and Ed Sheeran's "÷" remains at No. 3.
Stone, a longtime showman, political strategist and friend of President Donald Trump's, was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison.
In his hotel recently, Mr. Gordon played the showman, sliding a guest room's barn-style bathroom door back and forth.
Conservative provocateur and embattled showman Alex Jones rode inside a truck made by the Canada-based armored vehicle company Terradyne.
The showman also had his own definition of humbug, believing there is a difference between a humbug and a swindler.
" As she told the students at Temple, "I will never be the showman my opponent is, and you know what?
Hugh Jackman Jackman gave an iconic character a moving curtain call and still had time to be a great showman.
Donald Trump tests the limits of his showman style Trump and Clinton were hardly alone in the political fray this week.
Besides appearing on his own ESPN radio show, "The Real OC," is a natural showman in many facets of the sport.
If we have learned anything from the campaign, it is that this master showman has the power to pull this off.
Musk is a new kind of showman, someone who commits himself to absurd but headline-grabbing goals on a regular basis.
I'm hoping [Greatest Showman songwriters] Justin [Paul] and Benj [Pasek] are gonna write an original song for me for this tour.
Just a flesh wound As a former reality-television star, Mr Trump has the brio and bluster of a master showman.
If it is actually true that Reagan was mostly a showman, he was good at keeping the performance's seams from showing.
Maybe it's because Apple's current CEO, Tim Cook, isn't quite the showman as the company's late CEO and founder Steve Jobs.
The appearance of the Fiji mermaid in 19823th-century museums was in large part due to American showman P. T. Barnum.
The hands-down best part of The Greatest Showman is getting to watch Hugh Jackman having the time of his life.
He's a self-promoter and a showman who will tell any lies necessary to feed the narrative of his own success.
Iconic showman Wayne Newton revealed himself to be a Trump supporter, defending the GOP nominee against accusations that he groped women.
" The front image refers to Trump as both a "bully" and a "showman," as well as a "party crasher" and "demagogue.
The last time we saw our favourite teen heartthrob Zac Efron, he was prancing around the stage in The Greatest Showman.
That "This Is Me" performance Usually I do bathroom breaks during the song performance but this SHOWMAN performance is pretty badass.
Simple. Entertainment. It's become all about entertainment because, frankly, some people don't understand the difference between a showman and a statesman.
He was Elton, Prince and Bowie all rolled into one -- a flamboyant showman with a coiffed pompadour and a flowing cape.
There, in front of the library, is a life-size statue of the showman P.T. Barnum, born in Bethel in 18553.
Hugh Jackman's new movie, "The Greatest Showman," brings to the big screen the spectacle of a story that was Barnum's life.
As guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night, ultimate showman Neil Patrick Harris played a game with his audience.
" Davis, formerly of Chermin Entertainment, executive produced 2017's Hugh Jackman musical "The Greatest Showman" and the Amy Schumer comedy "Snatched.
Their considered and long-term approach is cast in direct opposition to the self-centered showman now inhabiting the White House.
And while a showman behind the bar, Mr. Lek smiles and grows quiet when asked about the emotions underpinning his effort.
Mr. Chang is not a fastidious French kitchen god, a high-energy American showman or an Anthony Bourdain-like poetic observer.
Johnny Hallyday, who died last week at age 74, was by all accounts generous and warmhearted, and an undeniably charismatic showman.
They don't feel conversational because Mr. Trump, pitchman and reality showman, doesn't have a one-on-one tone in his repertoire.
He exerted quiet influence from behind the scenes, giving room for extrovert McDermott to play the role of showman and salesman.
"The Greatest Showman," starring Hugh Jackman, for example, had no big hit songs but became the top-selling album of 2018.
You can be a thrice-married, trash-talking showman with bankruptcies, lawsuits and all manner of other messiness in your wake.
Not all the spots were terrific -- although one featuring music from "The Greatest Showman" was -- and in broad terms, mission accomplished.
It's where the bluster of the showman is at its most terrifying, as lives and military action are in the balance.
But behind the facade of a self-assured showman is the secret Mr. Turner tries to keep to himself: He's blind.
But on Friday, he often appeared focused on a topic that comes more naturally to the showman president: the news media.
Trained as a painter, Peale was more showman than scientist, a precursor to P.T. Barnum as well as Neil deGrasse Tyson.
You've got Javier Fernandez from Spain, a wonderful showman, but got a Canadian, Patrick Chen, who's still come back after, what?
Now, after seven years of battling, Jackman plays legendary, controversial circus impresario P.T. Barnum in the dreamy, dazzling musical The Greatest Showman.
P. T. Barnum, the ambitious American showman, attempted to revive it near the end with cut-rate tickets and popular music acts.
The Greatest Showman is directed by Australian commercial director and visual effects coordinator Michael Gracey, and will be his feature-length debut.
One of the Wall Street bankers I know likes to say that the president has three personalities: chairman, showman and con man.
" He added, "I'm going to sing stuff from The Greatest Showman, Les Miserables… stuff I auditioned for but didn't get cast for.
And so, when The Greatest Showman album nabbed the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 list, it felt like a triumph.
He may be the greatest showman in all of sports, but when you strip it down he's just kinda an ordinary dad.
Hugh Jackman's "The Greatest Showman," a musical take on circus founder P.T. Barnum, grossed $8.6 million at 3,006 venues during Friday-Sunday.
And behind all the songs, the dance, the romance, that's what The Greatest Showman turns out to be: one big, empty show.
Around the time I started asking Stan when he was going to retire, I became obsessed with chipping away at the showman.
With an all-star cast, gravity defying stunts and show stopping musical numbers, The Greatest Showman is making waves this awards season.
Those that pit him against the far-left showman in the second round show him losing that battle by a big margin.
He may not be the showman that Trump is, but Blankenship is a wealthy businessman whose message is Trump 2016 on steroids.
Zendaya starred in the 2017 blockbuster musical "The Greatest Showman" and currently plays a major role in Marvel's Spider-Man film series.
For Efron, the role is very different to his past work, with recent credits including musical "The Greatest Showman" and comedy "Baywatch".
At the box office, "The Greatest Showman" opened to a reported $434 million, and had multiple theatrical releases, including a singalong version.
Some Trump supporters dismissed the comments as the master reality-television showman once again doing and saying outrageous things for entertainment value.
He'll still have his gifts as a showman, his wealth, his mastery of social media, and the unshakable devotion of his followers.
To the public at large, though, Reynolds was, above all, a showman with a flair for the theatrical, at least at first.
If Michael Myers betrays any personality at all, it's as a showman of scares, albeit a much cruder one than John Carpenter.
In "Showman" he comes to feel a grudging respect for Barnum, and upon a second viewing I too came around — a little.
And, always the showman, he dropped a bit of news, revealing the slogan for his 2020 re-election campaign: Keep America Great.
A master showman making the mistake of telling rather than showing should have been avoidable — is there an editor in the house?
Bolt is a glorious runner and a joyous showman for the ages, and he has passed every drug test without a glitch.
Mr. Heenan was a natural showman, and his career as a manager was rivaled by his career as an on-camera commentator.
"The Greatest Showman" Born entertainer P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) aims to put together the most fantastic show the world has ever seen.
Last year, of course, produced a no-brainer in "La La Land," and this year brings "The Greatest Showman," starring Hugh Jackman.
Sorrentino is quite the showman himself; perhaps it's not going too far to note that he and his subject share some talents.
Op-Ed Contributor Donald Trump has often been described as the second coming of P. T. Barnum, the legendary 19th-century showman.
And though they gave their presidential nomination to a ludicrous and offensive candidate — an amoral showman — they won the White House nonetheless.
Mr. Bramble's career on Broadway began in 423, when he took a low-level position with the producer and showman David Merrick.
In announcing his endorsement, Carson essentially called Trump a showman who had created a misleading public impression to disguise his true nature.
Ever the showman, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to the stage at Universal Studios in LA this evening promising to make solar sexy.
The showman in the president beat a drum so effectively last weekend that we all watched with excited pulse rates on Monday night.
He is currently starring in The Greatest Showman — an original musical about P.T. Barnum and his journey to launching his first circus show.
For now, though, we will point out that The Greatest Showman is scheduled for release on a prime awards-season date: December 25.
Elton John and David Furnish have a real showman on their hands -- 'cause their son Elijah stole the spotlight from dad at LAX.
Hugh Jackman revealed that his surgeon advised against him singing in his latest film The Greatest Showman — but the actor did it anyways.
This unprecedented retrospective positions Rejlander as a showman whose romantic and professional partnership with pantomime actress Mary Bull yielded several thriving commercial studios.
Take, for instance, one of the show's rare moments of playing at being a showman, an extended sequence that opens the fourth season.
She then went on to star in critically-acclaimed Manchester by the Sea in 2016, as well as The Greatest Showman in 2017.
All of it brought out the showman in the former reality TV star during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday night.
Hugh Jackman's musical drama "The Greatest Showman" is finishing a close fourth with $20.3 million at 3,9023 theaters forecasted for the four days.
Hardly any newspapers endorsed him; as George Sims notes in "The Little Man's Big Friend", he was written off as a lightweight showman.
Always the showman, Cole ably combined the high drama of the moderns with the busy patterns and razzle-dazzle of his Hollywood numbers.
LIKE the showman he sometimes was, Peter Sutherland, on December 15th 1993, concluded seven years of torturous trade negotiations by banging a gavel.
As for her wedding dress, the Swedish actress, also known for her role in The Greatest Showman, opted for an untraditional, practical look.
Then later that week, things got a little rocky, with the Greatest Showman actor posted a shot of his truffle pizza to Instagram.
If it is actually true that Reagan was mostly a showman, he was good at keeping the seams of his performance from showing.
Ultimately, what I admire about The Greatest Showman is that it defies the impulse that made all of those reality shows so successful.
As for the CEO of Tesla, the move is more sound than Dorsey's, but Musk tends to be a showman, according to Cramer.
According to People, a fire broke out on the set of The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron, early Sunday morning.
Prince, the songwriter, singer, producer, one-man studio band and consummate showman, died on Thursday at his home, Paisley Park, in Chanhassen, Minn.
But unlike many of the televangelists who would later audition for the role of God's showman, Graham seemed to believe everything he said.
Those who knew him and saw him in his final days said the master showman betrayed no sign that he was near death.
Certainly, the three men stand to benefit from a public rehashing of the Benghazi controversy—particularly Paronto, the natural showman of the bunch.
He's a consummate showman, treating the crowd to a dizzying "best-of" medley and breaking his set up into acts based on mood.
A hugely gifted communicator with entertainment chops, he seemed well suited to take on Donald Trump, assuming the demagogic showman seeks re-election.
" A New Yorker 2016 profile, headlined "The Showman," in print, was more direct in the web version: "The Man Who Terrifies Wall Street.
But Mr. Gregory was a phenomenal showman in his own right, a risk-taker with bold ideas and the drive to execute them.
Washington (CNN)Roger Stone, a longtime showman, political strategist and friend of President Donald Trump's, was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison.
He exerted quiet influence from behind the scenes, giving room for the extroverted Mr. McDermott to play the role of showman and salesman.
It will make great viewing in a future season of The Crown, but Johnson is not the first showman to run a country.
"I've always said the president is the greatest showman of our time, which in politics is a good thing," said Ohio state Rep.
What he did was use the T.R.C. to launch his career as a showman, as someone who wants to be famous—war famous.
In 1991, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the mystical showman of the musical avant-garde, was commissioned to write a string quartet for the Salzburg Festival.
It is not unusual for a politician to be a showman, but Martelly's survival has depended on managing his audiences with exceptional adroitness.
No matter how you slice it, it was a stunning debut, a true surprise pulled off by the tech industry's new reigning showman.
Les Paul, was a world-class guitarist and self-promoting showman who was also a technological visionary, fascinated by electronics and studio production.
Whereas Crosby's legend was built on subtlety and the facility with which he makes the extraordinary appear ordinary, Lafrenière is more the showman.
Johnson was an opportunist, a dilettante and a showman, better at finessing the social, bureaucratic and economic obstacles to building than at actual design.
He has proven to be the consummate pro showman, a cheerleader who commits in full, and for Baywatch, he left no stop un-pulled.
Ever the showman, he called up a supporter to the stage who he'd watched interviewed on cable news after showing up at 4 a.m.
Call Me By Your Name, The Greatest Showman, All the Money in the World, Dunkirk, and I, Tonya all followed with three nominations each.
Call Me By Your Name, The Greatest Showman, All the Money in the World, Dunkirk, and I, Tonya all followed with three nominations each.
Some part of him always wondered, until just the moment when Ogoun was present, whether Monsieur Etienne was nothing but a canny old showman.
"The Greatest Showman," starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum, remained a powerful draw with a remarkable small decline of 12% in its fifth weekend.
A great showman, father of two Diniz was even able to smile and wave to the crowds lining the course well before the finish.
In a Bushwick warehouse on Saturday evening, three drag queens danced onstage to the song This Is Me from the movie The Greatest Showman.
Later in 2017, Efron made a majestic return to the world of musicals with his portrayal of playwright Phillip Carlyle in "The Greatest Showman."
Kosky, a brainy showman who runs the Komische Oper, in Berlin, follows Herheim in taking Wagner's own world as the setting for the opera.
"Greatest Showman" earned a Golden Globe nomination, but with so few true musicals to consider, the real news would have been if it hadn't.
They were promoting "The Greatest Showman" and their co-star Zendaya got in on the action too ... and also busted an LOL at Zac.
Settle will perform "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman, and Stevens will play "Mystery of Love," written for Call My By Your Name.
There's a lot to enjoy and even some to praise about The Greatest Showman, and it's no wonder that it's been so broadly appealing.
For all that, Mitchell is a fan of Marfa Myths; the Lost Horse even hosts a Saturday evening performance by eccentric showman Superstar & Star.
Some of Jones's fellow owners have described him as the N.F.L.'s Donald Trump, a blustering billionaire showman easily dismissed as a carnival barker.
" And Mr. Pasek noted, "'The Greatest Showman' really is not the world as it is but the world as we want it to be.
J. WATERS I'm a 44-year-old male high school English teacher, and I have seen "The Greatest Showman" eight times with my wife.
" The group looks confused, and then he offers another suggestion delivered with the brio of a showman: "What about if it is stinky inside?
Johnny Fox, a showman with a taste for the macabre and an appetite for swords, died on Sunday in Damascus, Md. He was 64.
Afterward, he linked his performance — two points, running his league-leading total to 27 — with that of another showman who once played in Washington.
Across his first three major releases, he created material in an unblushing polyphonic: He was a showman, a self-styled trickster, a stubborn enigma.
The great showman responded in kind by playing air guitar and swaying to the music while smiling and nodding straight into the TV camera.
And it was especially appealing for Trump, since the billionaire real estate showman largely self-financed his unconventional campaign during the contentious GOP primary.
I think he's a showman who is doing this for political reasons within the U.S. MS: So you think it's about the midterms then?
And despite that lie of a title, "The Greatest Showman" is the most impressive phenomenon nobody saw coming or took seriously once it came.
Hitler was more interested in self-aggrandizement than policy — he could be the showman leader and stage his rallies; they would write the legislation.
I realize that all those Gordons — the screamer, the softie, the comedian — are each aspects of what he truly is at his core: a showman.
Maxwell celebrated turning 6 earlier this year with an equally epic bash: a circus-powered party inspired by the 2017 musical hit The Greatest Showman.
We know Donald Trump is a showman – he spent 14 seasons as the star of "The Apprentice" reality TV show before he ran for president.
The event, seemingly spontaneous and broadcast live, took to a new level Trump's showman instincts and view of diplomacy as a test of interpersonal skills.
On Saturday, she delivered a heartbreaking tribute in his honor, singing "A Million Dreams" from "The Greatest Showman" in video captured by CNN affiliate WCVB.
Definitely some Greatest Showman songs, definitely Les Mis, some Boy from Oz. I do an homage to movie musicals because I grew up with them.
Ever the showman, LaVine decided that he didn't need to be participating in the Dunk Contest to leave NBA fans delirious with his aerial talents.
The Trump presidency is unique for many reasons, not least because our President is a showman — a reality TV star obsessed with ratings and visuals.
While it's unclear which direction the ball sailed as the sun shone into the camera, The Greatest Showman star seemed fully satisfied with his efforts.
Backers of the far-left showman Jean-Luc Melenchon were also disappointed that not he, but Le Pen, will challenge Macron now for the presidency.
Still, the casting call looks promising, and, high off the success of The Greatest Showman, Hollywood might just give us a Big Deal movie musical.
Far from the showman that is Stan Lee, he quietly devoted himself to his art and stories, creating some of the industry's best-known characters.
Add in scattered nominations for the studio's Battle of the Sexes, The Greatest Showman, and Ferdinand and Fox's total rises to 27 nominations in total.
It looks like the kind of broadly appealing crowdpleaser that'll have long legs at the box office, like Crazy Rich Asians or The Greatest Showman.
Fox's ninth weekend of "The Greatest Showman" finished sixth with $6.4 million at 813,936 venues to bring its 64-day domestic take to $156 million.
"This Is Me," The Greatest Showman — WINNER The 75th annual Golden Globes are presented live at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday.
Or do you need to be an incredible showman like ANTi, who provided one of the most memorable entrances to CEO2016's top eight bracket?
With the film The Greatest Showman, whose trailer dropped yesterday, I finally have the opportunity to wash all those negative associations from my head, right?
He's a fascinating figure, a cocky showman in red-leather pants who has mastered both Michael Jackson's fluidly spastic movements and Clint Eastwood's squint-glare.
Slice, who endured a difficult childhood and adolescence, emerged in his late 20s as "the greatest"... on YouTube, the perfect showman for the internet era.
Zendaya plays a trapeze artist in her latest film, The Greatest Showman, but in real-life she's one of Hollywood's most stylish quick-change artists.
The showman in chief of New York fashion presents his latest collection at Hammerstein Ballroom this afternoon, up from his usual time of 6 p.m.
I've often wondered if Mr. Trump believes what he's saying or if his political persona is actually a theatrical creation by Trump-the-inveterate-showman.
Two best-picture nominees -- "The Post," about the Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers, and the musical "The Greatest Showman" -- have yet to be released.
Trump came on stage hugging the American flagEver the showman, Trump walked onstage to "God Bless the U.S.A." and stopped to embrace the American flag.
Trump isn't the first showman known nearly as much for his marital lives as for his tendency toward oratorical extremes about refugees and "criminal" immigrants.
More movie musicals will follow; whether they can capture the magic that so strongly appeals to fans of The Greatest Showman remains to be seen.
Audience Score: 86%This musical drama is loosely based on the life of showman PT Barnum, who was known for popularizing circus acts in America.
Mr. Trump, a showman and former reality show star with a keen interest in production values, has always cared deeply about the image he projects.
But what of Eubank, the overtly self-confident showman, declaring his sport exploitative and barbaric; defying conventions, projecting a confident, uncompromising and almost homoerotic image.
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"They (have) a very aggressive, showman-like kind of approach, while Brian McMonagle's was kind of more of a Philadelphia street fighter approach," McAndrews said.
Even at his worst — I mean as a filmmaker, not a political thinker — he consistently proves to be an able craftsman and a shrewd showman.
Ever the showman, Mr. Trump returned to his roots as a reality television star, peppering in flourishes and surprises meant to delight the viewing audience.
What he knows of Trump is the polarizing showman who campaigned for 18 months, a campaign that also helped spark that big fake news problem.
Courtney B. Vance gives a layered, subtle performance as the master showman Johnnie Cochran, Clark's most powerful antagonist—a quiet take on a bold man.
This year, Fox will release "The Greatest Showman," which stars Hugh Jackman as the circus impresario P. T. Barnum; it has a dozen original songs.
Instead, it proved that Trump can be a showman when the moment demands it, particularly if expectations are low and he's reading from a script.
In a few minutes, Texas Senator Ted Cruz would be joining him on the stage, for a live broadcast interview with the Fox News showman.
He also stars as P.T. Barnum in the musical biopic "The Greatest Showman on Earth," which is slated to open at the end of this year.
The hulking giant will provide Trump the showman with a dramatic $13 billion metaphor for his plan to boost the Navy's 270 vessels to around 350.
At The Disco's cover of "The Greatest Show" from The Greatest Showman — features clips of beloved athletes including gymnast Simone Biles and USWNT player Alex Morgan.
Zendaya seems to be excited and appreciative about her booming film career, shared a sweet post on social media for a premiere of The Greatest Showman.
With the inclusion of some subtle details, Lemon creates a portrait of them as a couple: Versace as the showman, and D'Amico as his calmer companion.
The studio no doubt sees Spamalot as another potential hit in the parade of recent movie musical successes like The Greatest Showman and La La Land.
Gavilan was the superior fighter—a faster, more powerful version of Bratton, and every bit the showman—and the unanimous decision on the scorecards proved it.
So they work well for a film like The Greatest Showman, which needs something to drive its action forward in the most broadly appealing way possible.
As a showman, he has explored the stages from Los Angeles to New York — we're talking Broadway here, man — he's done some weird little movies, too.
For The Greatest Showman, in which she plays a trapeze artist who has a romance with Zac Efron's stage actor character, she took to social media.
Today, Kesha released her cover of "This Is Me," which is the theme song for the new Hugh Jackman and Zendaya musical flick The Greatest Showman.
Wednesday's tour stop wasn't the first time Jackman has surprised fans with java — the Greatest Showman actor also served coffee to fans in Chicago last month.
Dressed all in black, the showman known for exuberant stadium marathons delivers a two-hour performance — part storytelling, part singing — almost entirely without cracking a smile.
GOP lawmakers want President Trump to use his "showman" skills to win support ahead of policy battles on Capitol Hill, such as repealing and replacing ObamaCare.
It's led to a spin-off LP (The Greatest Showman: Reimagined) featuring James Arthur and Sara Bareilles and now a world tour with Hugh Jackman himself.
Always a showman, Trump announced the decision in a heavily teased event at the White House Rose Garden, where administration officials and conservatives applauded the move.
The 40-year-old from the Netherlands chooses songs that require big vocals, from Whitney Houston pieces to The Greatest Showman soundtrack — and she always delivers.
And he can no longer be enjoyed by his supporters as an innocuous showman because he's now responsible for the well being of millions of people.
For more than 0003 years members have served as unpaid auxiliaries for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a law-and-order showman who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff".
To understand Paul after the hits had dried up is to recognise him as the consummate showman, with a Zelig-like ability to turn up everywhere.
The original American Idol used her million-dollar pipes to tackle "Never Enough," from the 2017 film The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams.
Jackman, whose new film, "The Greatest Showman," is due in theaters December 20, said he tries to mix it up when it comes to his roles.
"This is boring," a man standing near Trump shouted at the candidate who just two days earlier embraced a comparison to the famous showman P.T. Barnum.
Perhaps too immersed in numbers for politics and too much of a dabbler for academia, he was also a showman — and therefore a natural movie subject.
He was also known for being an amazing showman, and his Super Bowl halftime show will go down in history as one of the best ever.
The soundtrack to "The Greatest Showman" fell one spot to No. 3, Ed Sheeran's "÷" is in fourth place, and Bruno Mars's "24K Magic" is No. 5.
He is also a master showman, as exemplified by his recent presentation of his plan to open up the moon, Mars and beyond to human settlement.
"Harvey tapped into his inner showman and became the voice these small jewels needed to win the recognition they deserved," Bob Weinstein wrote in Vanity Fair.
In choosing Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director, President Trump has appointed a financial showman who rivals Mr. Trump's own outsize knack for self-promotion.
After a night of polite social interaction that included a screening of the circus musical "The Greatest Showman," Trump went to bed seeming cheerful, aides said.
Trump apparently responded positively to the less-than-subtle flattery from Zelenskiy, the consummate showman whose resounding election win The New Republic covered earlier this year.
It also conjures the ambiguity of its central character, a self-mythologizing showman trailed by a whiff of corruption and not averse to shading the truth.
Instead, President Donald Trump's second meeting with North Korean despot Kim Jong Un ended in a most uncharacteristic fashion for a showman commander in chief: fizzle.
With a movie opening on Wednesday that is loosely inspired by Barnum's life — "The Greatest Showman," starring Hugh Jackman — we're likely to hear these comparisons again.
Hugh Jackman is joining the circus and bringing the true story of Barnum and Bailey founder P.T. Barnum to life in his upcoming film The Greatest Showman.
Zac Efron has had his fair share of on-screen kisses, but the one he shared with Zendaya on The Greatest Showman might just top his list.
Musk, ever the showman, plans to see one of his cars drive across the country next year without a human doing anything more than enjoying the scenery.
"I said, 'If you're going to call it The Greatest Showman, you should play to your strengths and we should make it a musical,'" the director says.
From image to reality A natural and practiced showman, Donald Trump's personality is a character he created and then refined to appeal to great masses of people.
And even though Corden does not make an appearance in The Greatest Showman, he was also on hand and appeared to dress up as the bearded lady.
"Musk is a showman; the car certainly gives people something to talk about," space historian Roger Launius of Launius Historical Services in Washington, DC, told BuzzFeed News.
The night's fashion also referenced camp icons including a glittery high-collared cape by designer Christian Siriano intended to pay tribute to the late Vegas showman Liberace.
We all know "Stan the Man," the showman persona Stan first created during Marvel's ascension in the 22003s and maintained throughout his long life and illustrious career.
Preet Bharara, the Showman | Jeffrey Toobin profiles the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and how he has struck fear into Wall Street.
Nonfiction As time marches on, it doesn't seem impossible that Orson Welles's legend as the screen's ultimate Sisyphean showman will outlast any particular familiarity with his movies.
Fox's sixth weekend of "The Greatest Showman" came in fourth with $8.9 million at 2,663 screens, declining only 11 percent in a remarkable show of staying power.
Trump is not much of an epidemiologist but he's a legitimate master showman and even the most rigorous journalists should be wary of playing into his show.
Another soundtrack, for "The Greatest Showman," is in second place, and "Memories Don't Die," the new album by the Canadian rapper Tory Lanez, opens at No. 3.
"Gabo" was not only a tremendous writer; he was an expert showman who once worked in advertising and cannily played up his Caribbean exoticism for foreign audiences.
Perhaps in such a context, a Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's showman precursor to Trump, or a Matteo Salvini, should be viewed more as theatrical sideshow than anything else.
After "Les Danaïdes," he composed "Les Horaces" (21987), which fell flat, and "Tarare" (2297), his collaboration with the great liberal showman Beaumarchais, which was a substantial hit.
" Up-and-coming actress Zendaya got her start on the Disney Channel and recently starred alongside Hugh Jackman and Zach Efron in the movie "The Greatest Showman.
In particular, the exhibition highlights five performers, including Evanion himself, magician John Nevil Maskelyne, circus showman George Sanger, hypnotist Annie De Montford, and pantomime star Dan Leno.
But though it's an eyepopping, expensive showstopper, there's no way the fifth nominee in the category, The Greatest Showman, can hold a candle to The Big Sick.
Always the showman, he feels as if he's somehow let everyone down by not having his decade-old effluence being contaminated with traces of cocaine and weed.
Deer Lake is still a name that conjures up sweet memories of youth for me, of watching and meeting the most brilliant showman the sport has ever seen.
The actor appeared on the U.K.'s Graham Norton Show along with Greatest Showman costars Hugh Jackman and Zendaya on a episode set to air New Year's Eve.
His showman style -- with its brass-knuckled tactics, defiance of decorum and itchy-Twitter-finger approach -- has created a new brand of politics that is entirely his own.
The president-elect is no orator or political showman, but he does exude authenticity and conviction in a country where most politicians are assumed to be cynical opportunists.
Sony's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" and Universal's "Pitch Perfect 3" have also opened solidly while Fox's "The Greatest Showman" is drawing respectably at the domestic box office.
A natural born showman and ruthless crime lord, Cottonmouth loves Harlem, and the feeling seems mutual, but his methods of civic improvement leave a lot to be desired.
Judging from the way it is positioned in The Greatest Showman, "This Is Me" is supposed to be a triumph of the self over societal conventions of normalcy.
Well, you can see him in The Greatest Showman, opposite Hugh Jackman and Zendaya, or over on his real Instagram account, where he has over 31.6 million followers.
Ever the showman, Trump understands that making an accusation and holding out the promise of more to come can be more important than actually delivering on the promise.
The great showman responded, of course, by playing air guitar and swaying to the music playing through the loudspeakers while smiling and nodding straight into the TV camera.
" Clinton counting on quiet supporters to speak with their ballots On the trail, signs at rallies for the Republican showman declare that "the Silent Majority stands with Trump.
"I'm a 44-year-old male high school English teacher, and I have seen The Greatest Showman eight times with my wife," a reader named Chris Bryant wrote.
"There is something undeniably lovable about The Greatest Showman, even though (or perhaps because) its historical perspective has been so radically simplified," David Sims wrote in the Atlantic.
That a movie like The Greatest Showman is a massive hit doesn't contradict critics' suspicions about how the film works on its audiences — in fact, it confirms it.
In 1835, the showman took Joice Heth, who was presented as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington, to Manhattan and exhibited her around the Northeast.
In 1835, the showman brought Joice Heth, who was presented as the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington, to Manhattan and exhibited her around the Northeast.
They have trailed Ryan since the billionaire showman first incinerated the Republican Party as he knew it and reduced the boyish speaker to his most puzzled-over foil.
"The Greatest Showman," a musical about the circus impresario P.T. Barnum, was dismissed by many critics when it arrived in theaters just before Christmas. Uncool. Old-fashioned. Mawkish.
At No. 2000 is "The Greatest Showman: Reimagined" (Atlantic), a soundtrack update that features acts like Pink and Zac Brown Band covering songs from the 2017 musical film.
Kelly said Trump did not seem angry and on Friday night had watched a new movie, "The Greatest Showman" about legendary circus promoter P.T. Barnum, with the lawmakers.
Mr. Lagerfeld has made himself into the grand showman of Paris, and Chanel into a brand that uses theater and extravagance to express the grandeur of its position.
Mr. Breen, speaking by telephone from North Carolina, where the show was on the road, described Mr. Hall as a ball of energy and a showman 24/7.
Cody was brought into being by Buffalo Bill Cody, another bombastic showman who was, in the second half of the nineteenth century, the biggest celebrity in the world.
A popular and bawdy showman, he appears in one typical video clip in a night club, dancing for the camera in a red bra and a yellow sarong.
Kanye West's naked homage just got weirder, courtesy of showman Jeff Beacher ... who re-shot the image from the "Famous" music video -- complete with himself as Kim Kardashian!
Ever the showman, he commissioned enormous, elaborate sets for the brand's Paris Fashion Week presentations, turning the Grand Palais into a beach, an airport, a brasserie, and a casino.
Luckily, he was back at full speed in May to celebrate Maxwell's sixth birthday party with a circus-powered bash themed after the 2017 musical hit The Greatest Showman.
Whether his fingers danced across the keys of a baby grand or belted out a mind-melting solo on one of his elaborate axes, he was the consummate showman.
In just the last five years, those kinds of films have included Bohemian Rhapsody, Widows, Murder on the Orient Express, The Greatest Showman, The Martian, Spy, and Gone Girl.
The authoritarian showman is being pardoned, the president has signalled, because he did nothing wrong in the eyes of "patriots" who know how police powers should really be used.
The former Disney star made her big-screen debut this summer in Spiderman: Homecoming and can currently be seen alongside Zac Efron in The Greatest Showman, now in theaters.
Trump, the ultimate showman, is imagining dramatically confronting Clinton with these accusations during a 90-minute, nationally televised debate, and watching the polls shift 10 points the next day.
The mishmash of Kendall Jenner, "This Is Me," the empowerment sound bites, and the image of the Bearded Lady borders on ridiculous for anyone who's seen The Greatest Showman.
To hold down the beat while he played the showman out front, Starr hired not just one but two drummers: session giant Jim Keltner, and the Band's Levon Helm.
Jason Zinoman, The New York Times: The Greatest Showman, a montage sequence that occasionally turns into a movie musical, steers clear of any contemporary resonance and ignores meaty themes.
And it cast immediate doubts on whether Trump — who has sold himself as the consummate dealmaker — can transition from business guru and campaign showman to effective Washington power broker.
Before this curly-haired cutie was a true showman, he was just another kid rockin' some colorful clothes in San Luis Obispo, CA. Can you guess who he is?
Even Donald Trump registers as one of the greatest con men of our age, and triply so: as a real-estate tycoon, a rising political showman, and, now, president.
Receiving CinemaCon's Showman of the Year award at the opening-night presentation, he took the stage clearly knowing that his support for The Screening Room needed to be addressed.
Prince was famed for his dynamic collaborations with two composers, American Stephen Sondheim and Briton Andrew Lloyd Webber and had been a protege of legendary Broadway showman George Abbott.
In other words, this mix is kind of like Moodymann himself: part showman, part weirdo, part guy you just want to hang out outside and smoke a blunt with.
The showman president is facing pressure in Washington as he faces a reported investigation into whether he attempted to impede the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
No historical observer mentions seeing him use such a thing — not even a magnifying glass — but Buchinger, as a showman and magician, may have kept his methods under wraps.
Efron told CNN his decision to star in "The Greatest Showman" alongside Hugh Jackman boiled down to two factors: the director, Michael Gracey and the movie's message of inclusion.
For many Cruz supporters who spoke to CNN, Trump is too much of a "showman," who they fear lacks the skills to follow through on his promises if elected.
The clues tell us we shouldn't expect this 70-year-old showman to be transformed into a genuinely sober, predictable leader, but this is not necessarily a bad omen.
This held for Joice Heth and the Fejee mermaid and also for himself; he turned P. T. Barnum into yet another relentlessly promoted exhibit—the Greatest Showman on Earth.
I would suggest that there are two big answers, both of which played crucial roles in getting a carnival showman who promised to Make America Great Again elected president.
When Donald Trump, another kind of showman, was elected president of the United States in 2016, M.B.S. was ready to forge a whole new relationship with the White House.
I contemplated going to see the movie again (I have seen in 6.3 times — once I was taking my kids to another movie and kept sneaking into "Greatest Showman").
Nine years later, at 19633, he has become Broadway's singular showman, pushing the boundaries of what it means — and, yes, what it looks like — to be a theater tycoon.
With the help of Las Vegas showman Jeff Beacher, the company pioneered the concept of using influencers to help raise awareness and get customers — largely by posting on Instagram.
Mr. Zucker, a former "Today" show producer, is also an experienced showman, and he has shown a knack for seizing on some of his network's feuds with the administration.
Mostly, Ventura used the office to promote Ventura, including spending several months as a television football announcer for the ill-fated XFL, launched by professional-wrestling showman Vince McMahon.
They also enjoyed watercolor painting, outdoor games like over-sized Jenga and creative entertainment from water ballerinas, plus singer Rhapsody, who performed songs from Cielo's favorite movie The Greatest Showman.
A man in an elaborate peacock costume comes strutting onto a stage in tune with the almost sinister opening notes of "The Greatest Show," Hugh Jackman's The Greatest Showman number.
They also enjoyed watercolor painting, outdoor games like over-sized Jenga and creative entertainment from water ballerinas, plus singer Rhapsody, who performed songs from Cielo's favorite movie The Greatest Showman.
I left The Greatest Showman having felt nearly the full range of feels a person can feel in a theater: trepidation, elation, fear, rage, conflict, bafflement, sugar high, swooniness, eyerollitude.
There are 11 original songs in The Greatest Showman, which is good, because everything that happens in between The Greatest Showman's songs is thinly drawn, flatly imagined, and mostly unbelievable.
The crossover makes complete sense, as Deadline points out, because Benj Pasek and Justin Paul wrote both the musical adaptation of A Christmas Story and the songs for Greatest Showman.
In addition, they collaborated on the forthcoming P.T. Barnum musical The Greatest Showman, on which he is executive producer and she stars alongside actors Hugh Jackman, Zendaya and Zac Efron.
Ever the showman, Trump had pushed for a flashy, testimony-filled trial, to embarrass Democrats and vindicate himself, even if he is ultimately pleased with how the trial has gone.
"I am not a showman, I have no ego issues and I am not a man of unrealistic promises," said Ceferin after the poll amongst Europe's 55 national football associations.
The people buying The Greatest Showman, I assume, either have young children, or can remember being confused by their kids' walkman and think Spotify is some sort of skin condition.
One of the key presidential powers is access to the bully-pulpit, which Trump is remarkably inept at commanding despite (or perhaps because) of his long career as a showman.
Making matters worse for these young people is that it appears that Donald Trump -- like the master showman he is -- has intentionally sought to stoke the anticipation surrounding his decision.
You can imagine him clashing swords with Douglas Fairbanks on a staircase, and fans of " The Greatest Showman ," Jackman's 2017 hit, will need some convincing that deceitful guilt becomes him.
Asked to step into a starting role because of an injury to Jonas Valanciunas, Biyombo thrived as a shot-blocking finger-wagging showman who held his own under difficult circumstances.
But Mr. Trump, a natural showman, has described Mr. Pence to associates as someone who looks the part, straight out of "central casting" with his clean-cut, silver-haired appearance.
The band immediately move to play old man's pub the Eagle Inn, where Clams comes across as much evangelical preacher as he does traditional frontman crossed with old-school showman.
Since then, The Greatest Showman has made more than $2962 million in the US (and more than $244 million abroad), buoyed by word of mouth and repeat visits from fans.
Advisers who once hoped a Pygmalion-like transformation would refashion a crudely effective political showman into a plausible American president now increasingly concede that Mr. Trump may be beyond coaching.
Since adopting Harlem as his home and choosing it to hone his skills as a showman restaurateur, Mr. Samuelsson has masterfully straddled a fine line between gentrification, appropriation and approbation.
As for Vladimir Putin, he has experience staging this kind of vaudeville aimed at turning a frivolous showman into a major political player: Isn't that what happened with Donald Trump?
"The way television was then really helped him out," Leigh Montville, the author of "The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil and Legend," said in an interview.
He may not be a great real estate investor or casino owner, but he is an incredible showman who knows how to pull off an emotionally powerful reality show segment.
Mr. Chazelle, whose previous features ("Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" and "Whiplash") were full of music and brash, youthful energy, is a natural showman and a canny craftsman.
He refused to be distracted by Fognini's showman antics and pounced in the seventh game of the decider when the Italian lost his focus and offered up a cheap break.
It was also an impressive feat considering it wasn't only competing with a "Star Wars" sequel, but also "The Greatest Showman" — an ambitious musical starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum.
He is seen in the state less as a chest-thumping showman than as a former member of the King County Council with a wonky sensibility and an eager manner.
The film has no perfectly executed set pieces, stirring musical cues, or even ridiculous performances — like the ones in the 2016 circus offering The Greatest Showman — that stir up significant feeling.
An eager political showman, Mr. Christie theatrically dressed down critics in town-hall forums and then posted videos of the exchanges online that wowed a fast-growing group of national followers.
The seemingly indefatigable showman said that they&aposve technically stopped production, but there are "dozens" of new episodes that will be airing -- meaning it&aposs not canceled in the strictest sense.
And by the way, Donald Trump is a master showman so you had cameras trained on the White House for hours today, the letter being delivered, what was in the letter.
On Friday, Zac Efron joined forces with his The Greatest Showman costars Zendaya and Hugh Jackman to film a wig-centric skit with James Corden, presumably for The Late Late Show.
It made him a unique rock-n-roller, both showman and businessman; his break came when he recognised a popular trend and focused his imagination on how to best mythologise it.
Zendaya certainly likes to keep busy, between promoting her upcoming film The Greatest Showman, and riding the success of her role as Mary Jane Watson in this summer's Spider-Man: Homecoming.
We won't see Tom Holland and Zendaya on the big screen together for quite some time, but Zendaya will be in The Greatest Showman, a musical starring Hugh Jackman, this winter.
The fact that Musk paired the two together shows he hasn't lost his flair as a showman, even with his company facing what's probably its biggest challenge in its short existence.
This year, she starred in Spider-Man: Homecoming as M.J. She also starred in The Greatest Showman, a circus musical that currently has an album at the top of the charts.
A controlled Kyrgios put on a masterful display, mixing strong serving with an array of showman shots to beat Germany's 26-year-old Zverev, a friend from their junior tennis days.
The bulk of the film shows the transformation of Farrokh Bulsara, an awkward, buck-toothed Parsi teenager, into Freddie Mercury, an outrageous showman who thrills his fans and skewers his critics.
Stars: The Best Of, a greatest hits album for the band, is second on the iTunes chart behind only the soundtrack for the new 21st Century Fox movie The Greatest Showman.
The great showman Donald J. Trump has made a name for himself but no clear contribution to Conservative thought, and his inaugural address may be as ideologically inconsistent as his tweets.
Chita Rivera, the original West Side Story star, will sing "America" from the acclaimed musical while Keala Settle will perform "This Is Me," the Oscar-nominated tune from The Greatest Showman.
I think it's likely that in four years, the world will see Trump as one of the most ineffective presidents the US have ever had—the showman who sold the world.
Fox's "The Post" finished fourth with $12 million at 2,851 venues and its fifth weekend of "The Greatest Showman" remained a solid draw in fifth with $11 million at 2,23 screens.
One Hollywood effort early in the second set, struck for a clean winner from almost in the front row seats, revealed the showman in Zverev as he conducted the rapturous applause.
" Ms. Gordon-Reed said she loved the show and Daveed Diggs's depiction of Jefferson as a Cab Calloway-like showman and overt manipulator, which she called "so wrong it's almost right.
And when initial ticket sales were poor, most box office analysts decided "The Greatest Showman" was a prime example of Hollywood being unable to pry people away from their Netflix accounts.
Paul LePage, Maine's two-term Republican governor — who is barred by term limits from seeking re-election — is an irascible, combative showman and tends to step on his own good news.
A consummate showman, and almost certainly the finest political performer Israel has produced, Mr. Netanyahu seemed energized by the challenge of sustaining interest among voters with little appetite for another election.
Sheldon Fireman, a quintessential showman-restaurateur, opened Bond 45, his sprawling Italian canteen, in the old Bond clothing store in the theater district in 2005, then closed it in January 2016.
Outshining the showman in chief in her Oval Office goodbye Tuesday, the outgoing US ambassador to the UN pocketed a valuable endorsement for a political career no one thinks is over.
The company's CEO, Elon Musk, a consummate showman, used the Falcon Heavy to launch a used Tesla Roadster electric sports car, with a space-suited mannequin dubbed "Starman," into interplanetary space.
Also on the latest chart, the soundtrack to "The Greatest Showman," the P.T. Barnum biopic, which had held the No. 1 spot for the last two weeks, fell to No. 2.
Master media showman Dmitry Kiselev, in his weekly TV program "News of the Week," gave a textbook vision of why Trump isn't delivering on his promise to improve the relationship with America.
Keala Settle may be a stranger to the Oscars stage, but The Greatest Showman star made sure even those at the back of the theater felt every note of her emotional performance.
Like the circus at its center, The Greatest Showman feels, at the very least, like a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, particularly at a time when the uncomplicated joy of escapist entertainment is essential.
Our lady Zendaya — talent incarnate, star of The Greatest Showman, and former Bella Thorne collaborator — appears in Vanity Fair's 2018 Hollywood portfolio, right alongside some of the biggest actors in the world.
She had been on a non-stop worldwide promotional tour for The Greatest Showman and its chart-topping soundtrack, a process that left her immune system compromised and her patience, understandably thin.
I may dislike The Greatest Showman, but I cannot dislike its place on the Billboard charts, especially because it has the New York Post wondering if Jackman will bring Barnum to Broadway.
Most of Barnum's oddities weren't shaped around outright lies like Heth, but rather on the exaggeration of a pre-existing (and remarkable) trait, like the ones we see in The Greatest Showman.
And that is no mean feat for a President whom many critics had casually written off as a showman who supposedly lacked the gravitas or discipline to lead the world's greatest superpower.
The Mexican showman spazzed out to electroclash beats while gradually stripping down to nothing but his red underpants, mustache and bowl cut and shouting things at crowd that are better left untranslated.
He was terribly ineffectual but such a compelling showman that, in 199153, voters sent him to the U.S. Senate over a young man named Lyndon Johnson—the only election Johnson ever lost.
" A.B.T.'s season features a new reconstruction of Petipa's 1900 commedia-dell'arte charmer, "Harlequinade," by Alexei Ratmansky, and "Afterite," by the British showman Wayne McGregor, set to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring.
Stranded in Indianapolis on Wednesday after an aircraft malfunction, Donald J. Trump did what any gifted showman with a national campaign to run would do: He brought the presidential circus to him.
Often viewed as more showman than competitor, the 10th-seeded Monfils tested the patience of both Djokovic and the fans with a display of tennis that swung wildly from dynamic to indifferent.
The minister sending his departed congregant off to glory may be the most obvious and energetic showman in "Monrovia, Indiana," but that fact, rather than undermining his sincerity, is what confirms it.
The longtime showman, political strategist and friend of President Donald Trump has joined Cameo, the website that allows users to pay for personalized video messages from celebrities, sports figures or musical artists.
Ms. Snider, who is not expected to make the move to Disney, cited the recent success of Fox's "The Greatest Showman" when briefly referring to the acquisition in her speech on Thursday.
His campaign rallies were rambling, unscripted affairs, almost like an open-mic comedy set: Not a fearsome Nuremberg rally, but an aging showman road-testing material, seeing what caught the audience's attention.
On Wednesday, representatives of Comey, the consummate showman whose own flair for the dramatic rivals Trump's, requested the release of his incredibly detailed opening statement in advance of his Thursday Senate testimony.
" Action Park was created by Andy Mulvihill's father Eugene, whom Mr. Porges described as a "showman-huckster businessman, a mixture of P.T. Barnum and Walt Disney, with a little bit of Trump.
So that means on Halloween, anyone can take put on sunglasses and belt "Your Song," and will plausibly pass as the famous showman (including Taron Egerton, who plays him in the movie).
Kanye West, the rapper, fashion designer, showman and Twitter ranter, has maintained a low profile since canceling his "Saint Pablo" tour and being hospitalized in mid-November amid rumors of severe exhaustion.
As the couple walked down the aisle to the song "A Million Dreams" from The Greatest Showman, with their schnauzer Max by their side, Duran says the entire room burst into tears.
Shortly after, when Todd died in a plane crash, there was a sense that the showman had, like many of the 19th century explorers he admired, flown too close to the sun.
Four went to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, from Fox Searchlight; two went to The Shape of Water, from Fox Searchlight; and one went to The Greatest Showman, from 20th Century Fox proper.
Its box office has not dropped substantially from weekend to weekend, indicating that (like last year's The Greatest Showman) it may have a long successful run in theaters leading up to awards season.
Clockwise from far left: Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody; Nick Robinson in Love, Simon; Matt Damon in The Martian; Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman; and Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada.
Beginning with 2017's The Greatest Showman, 20th Century Fox has been using Merlin's predictions to decide which movies to make and how best to market them, according to a Google blog post.
He is also a showman, quoting Samuel Adams, a Founding Father, at length, waving a revolver around at his final rally and riding to the polls on horseback, wearing a ten-gallon hat.
None of these new songs stirs the emotions with the simple, rewarding directness of hits from other recent family-oriented movies, such as "Remember Me" from Coco or "Tightrope" from The Greatest Showman.
Johnson is a witty, rakish showman who always puts himself at the center of attention and is willing to put up with a lot of scandal and disapproval in order to stay there.
The 7-year-old girl, one of two children Pink shares with husband Carey Hart, will make her recording debut next month on a new all-star tribute album to The Greatest Showman.
The jumping spider is already more of a showman than other species, known for its dance-heavy mating rituals—lots of emphasis on arm waving, à la one of those dancing inflatable men.
Mr. Emerson was a showman, standing up and playing fluidly on multiple keyboards, sometimes turning an organ over on top of himself or stabbing knives into the keyboard to hold down a note.
"Newspaper and social controversy on the subject (and seldom have vastly more important matters been so largely discussed) served my purpose as 'a showman' by keeping my name before the public," he crowed.
With a screenplay by the "Dreamgirls" and "Chicago" veteran Bill Condon and "Sex and the City" alum Jenny Bicks, "The Greatest Showman" projects a message of inclusion that may resonate with contemporary audiences.
They are also a form of performance art for a president who has the instincts of a showman, and whose focus on building suspense and captivating an audience drives many of his decisions.
Some of Jones's fellow owners, meanwhile, had begun describing Jones as the N.F.L.'s own version of Trump: a big-talking, attention-seeking billionaire showman who was easily dismissed as a carnival barker.
Over the past four weeks, however, "The Greatest Showman" (28th Century Fox) has become a rare sleeper hit, lifted by positive word of mouth, stunt marketing (singalong screenings) and a popular soundtrack album.
Audric de Campeau, a bit of a showman, likes to demonstrate how safe it is to work with bees by eschewing the usual white protective suits and face masks worn by most beekeepers.
At the center of it all will be Trump, whose abilities as a showman and entertainer are so well developed they are acknowledged even by those who are appalled by his political rise.
The wondrous, sorry adventures of the earnest, good-hearted Candide are narrated by a character called Dr. Voltaire, a traveling showman, and are presented by a circuslike troupe of players, complete with acrobats.
Few actors can claim a filmography as admirably schizophrenic, best exemplified by his two 2017 releases, "Logan," his final turn as Wolverine, and "The Greatest Showman," where he plays circus founder P.T. Barnum.
But when asked if they were curious what a presidency of Vladimir V. Zhirinovsky might look like, they were quick to dismiss the thought, saying he was a showman and not taken seriously.
And whether his businesses have floundered or thrived, Trump is a showman who knows the value of good ratings — and that it takes a steady stream of outsize, deliberately provocative statements to get them.
O'Rourke, like Donald Trump but unlike the other candidates in the field, was a showman before he was a politician — albeit in an obscure hardcore band rather than on a network reality television show.
In September, he fought CM Punk, the former WWE showman who was signed to the UFC in hopes that he'd lure his pro-wrestling fan base, and choked him out in the first round.
There are widespread demonstrations of his support and a strong base of affection for the showman personality reflected in his many marriages, acknowledged affairs and penchant for joking, singing and dancing at public events.
Imagine if, today, a famed musical theater star (like Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Oscar-winning Greatest Showman songwriters) gathered 213 of the nation's most talented youths and made them sing about French kissing.
What's more, she's combining all of her many strengths in one big screen extravaganza, thanks to her trapeze-toting character, Anne Wheeler, in The Greatest Showman (the film premieres December 20th, by the way).
The remake would follow the recent success of movie musicals on screen, with 2016's La La Land and 2017's The Greatest Showman performing big at the box office and picking up awards.
A staged fire got out of hand early Sunday morning on the set of Hugh Jackman's latest movie The Greatest Showman  — and about 100 firefighters reportedly raced to the scene to put it out.
In the same place as Wonder Woman, and possibly squeezed out to make room for The Greatest Showman, the soon-to-open PT Barnum musical that's up for best movie and actor (Hugh Jackman).
Then we have *checks notes* the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman in third position, yer da's favourite Ian Brown in fourth and UK rapper Fredo in at number five (which, fine, but also, what?).
BEST ACTOR John Boyega, Untitled Kathryn Bigelow ProjectDaniel Day-Lewis, Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson ProjectMatt Damon, DownsizingArmie Hammer, Call Me By Your NameHugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman A bit on those two untitled projects.
It was bought for "the nation" in 1847 by a subscription campaign led by Charles Dickens when the American showman P.T. Barnum wanted to buy it and bring it to the vulgar New World.
Why it matters: Trump's a showman who likes a flourish, so it makes sense that he'd break convention and head to Saudi Arabia first on a trip built around the three major world religions.
Diamond experiences no guilt: He is a showman and a performer, a rock & roll song-and-dance man so in love with the songs that he never took the time to how to dance.
The far-right PVV in the Netherlands, led by a showman with a Trump-esque haircut named Geert Wilders, had called for a ban on Muslim immigration and withdrawing from the European Union ("Nexit").
Mr. Chornovil, who worked as Mr. Yanukovych's campaign manager in 2004, remembers Mr. Manafort as "arrogant and full of self-confidence," a showman who liked to organize big, splashy events that required lavish spending.
Keala Settle will bring a bit of Broadway to the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles with her performance of "This Is Me" from the musical drama "The Greatest Showman," a film about P.T. Barnum.
While Mr. Kalanick went on to raise billions of dollars in funding for Uber, Mr. Green relied on Mr. Zimmer's Wall Street knowledge and showman personality to garner investments from venture capitalists and others.
The group, consisting of the brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, had hits throughout the 1970s, with Michael as the lead singer and top showman before he moved on to a solo career.
The president, ever the showman and clearly wanting to set a new precedent for lessening the stature of the occasion, called on his wife to pin the presidential Medal of Freedom on Rush Limbaugh.
He acknowledged that he left City Hall a decidedly unpopular figure, as many in the city turned against him — viewing him more as a showman than as a chief executive, particularly after the affair.
Bannon is a prodigious reader whose walls are lined with thousands of volumes, and he is enough of a showman/provocateur/insensitive jerk to go around promoting the most alarming title he recently inhaled.
It has managed to bring in $38 million globally since its release; however, the movie Universal hoped would become a heartwarming hit akin to The Greatest Showman, is still operating at a significant loss.
It posited two highly dynamic 220-year-old martial artists who shared a compelling—almost yin/yang-like—symmetry between them: the quiet ascetic and the boisterous showman, traditional against modern, San Francisco vs.
In this post-Twilight world film soundtracks continue to boom—A Star Is Born, The Greatest Showman, and Bohemian Rhapsody are all currently nestled comfortably in the top 10 of the UK album chart.
Donald Trump tests the limits of his showman style One way to do that would be to survey the delegates and find out who is willing the go with someone else in a second ballot.
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, the Oscar-winning songwriters behind hits from La La Land and The Greatest Showman, will apparently be leaving their mark on the upcoming live-action Aladdin, directed by Guy Ritchie.
Larry Nance, Jr.—not a Sprite guy but a showman all the same—dresses himself in a gel suit meant to resemble the creature from The Shape of Water, but is actually a sea monkey.
Sullivan, as the sole magic lantern showman in the theater (his full-time job), counts himself as one of thirty magic lantern showmen currently existing in the world—a fraction of 30,000 showmen in 1713.
From a 1891 handbook by the stage hypnotist Dr. Vint to a poster of the American showman Kennedy the Mesmerist (promoted as "King Laughmaker of the World"), the powerful hypnotists were mostly heavily mustachioed men.
Tanner, a mother of three, was visiting a Duke University-affiliated hospital when she sang "Never Enough," a song from the soundtrack of 2017's The Greatest Showman, to her 1-year-old son, Lincoln.
But Trump is a showman best known for real estate and reality television — if there's one thing he knows how to do, it's getting people's attention away from where he doesn't want them to look.
And her friendship with Efron is so sweet that it's easy to forget the two of them aren't actually the biggest stars of The Greatest Showman — that would be Hugh Jackman, playing P.T. Barnum himself.
The actor, 49, snuck into the back of a public theater showing his new musical The Greatest Showman, and was caught on camera dancing and singing along to his own musical numbers in the film.
Washington (CNN)For a showman president who has come to relish the made-for-TV aspects of his job, perhaps it is no surprise that Donald Trump's first foreign outing will not be to Canada.
Sunny shows off her vocals to the excited crowd by singing "A Million Dreams" from the The Greatest Showman, which Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams originally performed in the 2017 Oscar-nominated film.
It's as if they drank from the same political cup: George C. Wallace, the Alabama governor who ached to become president, and Donald J. Trump, the developer and showman who made it to the top.
On top of the low level of attraction, and the fact that Barnum was married, the showman was way too focused on his various business ventures to be distracted by a potential relationship with Lind.
And yet: It was completely shut out of the Globes this year, even losing a spot in the Musical or Comedy category to, of all fucking things, Hugh Jackman's circus-musical The Greatest Showman. Lame.
That dynamic, and the challenged romance between Phillip (Zac Efron), who Barnum recruits to class up the show, and the trapeze artist Anne (Zendaya), provide what little dramatic tension "The Greatest Showman" has to offer.
His life was recounted in "Fred Hayman, the Extraordinary Difference: The Story of Rodeo Drive, Hollywood Glamour and the Showman Who Sold It All," by the fashion writer Rose Apodaca, which was published in 2011.
UPDATE: Updated to include Trump's own claim that there are "two Donald Trumps" at his endorsement by Ben Carson on March 11 — a clever line, but also, just what you'd expect a showman to say.
A great showman, father of two Diniz was even able to smile and wave to the crowds lining the course well before the finish as he landed a third gold of the championships for France.
And he certainly played the role of showman well with his dramatic approach to the Senate mic, raising his hands and turning them, thumbs-down, for the cameras and, therefore, all of us to see.
With its rising hit single "Shallow," the release also continues a run of blockbuster albums with movie tie-ins like "The Greatest Showman" and "Black Panther: The Album," another Interscope release (overseen by Kendrick Lamar).
For one thing, it is Mr. Ford, the showman, who was greeted with applause at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday evening by members of an industry sorely in need of a tent-pole personality.
The Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical, with the book by Greg Garcia ("My Name Is Earl") and Mike O'Malley ("Shameless"), interweaves porch-rock classics with a story of a woman's vacation romance with the resort's showman.
The Greatest Showman, for instance, is by any definition a "popular" film, but it would have been excluded from voting for a prospective 2018 award by virtue of how slow its box office ascent was.
IN OCTOBER 1908, on a windy field at Farnborough, south-west of London, a handlebar-mustachioed former Wild West showman named Samuel Cody completed the first official controlled flight of a powered aeroplane in Britain.
In Ukraine, as happened in Georgia, Mr. Saakashvili has become a highly divisive figure, revered by supporters as a zealous enforcer of clean government but reviled by enemies as a showman prone to flamboyant stunts.
The essential thing is that President Trump thinks they did, that he seems to see Jews as the caricature of the New York establishment that, for decades, took him for an agreeable but vulgar showman.
It is steps from the spot where the American Museum — the creation of P. T. Barnum, memorialized in the recent movie "The Greatest Showman" — once stood, crammed with taxidermy, wax figures and two live whales.
"To me, down to the soap that you use, it's all part of the experience," said Mr. Weinreb, a former showman who got his start as a child singer, opening for comedians in the Catskills.
The thing was, it could feel as though everyone who hit it big here owed a debt to Willie Brown — the showman power broker enamored of Brioni suits, well-directed patronage and his own legend.
Until now, the Moore campaign has believed that Alabama's brand of glittery sideshows would, sooner or later, summon Mr. Trump's inner showman and that he would sweep in to push Mr. Moore over the top.
Fox had hoped that a mix of stars, including Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron and Zendaya, could help "The Greatest Showman" win over ticket buyers who might be reluctant to see an original musical.
At Apple, which he joined as a senior executive in 1998, Mr. Cook was a quiet figure for much of the period when he worked for Mr. Jobs, a showman who prized secrecy at the company.
But after seven years of development, planning, and production, The Greatest Showman — starring Hugh Jackman as the godfather of the modern circus and Michelle Williams as his wife, Charity — will finally hit screens on Christmas Day.
This is the only thing that's ever bothered me about Conor McGregor, who is a master fighter, a master talker, and a master showman: his damned obsession with and fanatical belief in the meaning of money.
While Zendaya has been working on the show since 2015, she's also been working hard on big blockbuster films such as Spider-man: Homecoming and more recently, The Greatest Showman alongside Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron.
Wednesday's minute-and-a-half-long trailer for the Tim Burton remake feels a bit like Big Fish cut with a sizable share of The Greatest Showman and a CG elephant thrown in for good measure.
Those unflattering impressions are not likely to be improved if Trump, ever the showman himself, tunes in on cable television to watch Comey starring in a hearing that keeps the rest of the country on tenterhooks.
Mike Conaway referred to Trump as a "showman" and predicted he will "take advantage of his ability to create a show" to pressure vulnerable Democrats in the Senate against filibustering his Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.
As much as Trump might want to attack Crow, the GOP showman knows deep inside that he has to bite his tongue, or risk reinforcing an image that his GOP opponents want to pin on him.
The cotton-candy bouffant is strictly for her role in The Greatest Showman, and the big reveal was in the first trailer for the film, so it's not technically a total hair makeover for the star.
On a recent afternoon, the bearded bartender explained the reference: a legendary scheme cultivated by the mischievous showman P. T. Barnum, who, in 1869, claimed that he had "discovered" a huge, fossilized man upstate, in Cardiff.
VIRGINIA BEACH — Donald J. Trump — the master showman turned presidential candidate — has added yet another critique to his list of reasons he believes Hillary Clinton should not be president: She simply does not look the part.
Amid industry strain and change, there continued to be one widely accepted tenet: toymakers will unconditionally support Toys R Us. The industry needed its beacon to protect prices, provide shelf space and act as a showman.
The official tracklist is as follows: Bonus tracks: The Greatest Showman — Reimagined follows in the footsteps of The Hamilton Mixtape, which saw other big names in music (like Clarkson) recording covers of that Tony-winning Musical.
In like manner, the Donmar Warehouse's exquisite revival of "Faith Healer," Brian Friel's 1970s masterwork about an itinerant showman-shaman, his wife and his manager, struck chords of sad immediacy that I hadn't expected to feel.
A lot of you cited the current political moment but to make different points: Some of you found "Showman" an escape from the news, while others viewed the film's messages as a response to the headlines.
He embodies not only the toxic id of a perpetual child — in his 40s, Diaghilev is still attended by his childhood nurse — but also the barbarian glint of a sociopath and the vulgarity of a showman.
The portrait that emerges in director Ursula Macfarlane's film -- which made its debut in January at the Sundance Film Festival -- depicts Weinstein as a brilliant showman, cut from the same cloth as the early studio chiefs.
"I put it this way — I'm a showman, and the only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring, and I have dramatized some of what I believe to be true," Mr. Stone said.
About a year after playing P.T. Barnum in "The Greatest Showman," Hugh Jackman starred in this drama, which effectively posits that the former Senator Gary Hart's 1987 presidential campaign was brought down by a media circus.
After the opening two days it is uncertain if even the great Jamaican showman Usain Bolt himself could have pulled in a larger audience which offered only polite applause as Coleman raised his arms in victory.
Where Jobs was an expert showman, basking in the glory of his own "reality distortion field" and the purity Apple's products, Cook wields a more holistic approach when it comes to the company's hardware, software, and mission.
Staged at New York City's huge Park Avenue Armory, as is his custom, but with the barest of sets and no lighting or music, it was a reminder of just how great a showman Jacobs can be.
Along with "Mighty River," the 2018 Best Original Song nominations include: "Mystery of Love," from Call Me By Your Name; "Remember Me," from Coco; "Stand up For Something," from Marshall, and "This is Me," The Greatest Showman.
Buckwheat Zydeco (Sunday) This singer and accordionist from Louisiana (whose real name is Stanley Dural Jr.) is a master craftsman of zydeco, an ebullient strain of Cajun folk, and an unpretentious showman with musical flair for miles.
Blige's best song nomination for "Mighty River" faces tough competition from tunes like "The Mystery of Love," Call Me by Your Name; "Remember Me," Coco; "Stand Up for Something," Marshall; and "This Is Me," The Greatest Showman.
" The first half, giving Trump-the-showman a warm response in the chamber, included new pushes for nationwide paid family leave and lower drug prices, funding for research into childhood cancer, and a pledge to "defeat AIDS.
The duo's songs for Greatest Showman don't feel like traditional show tunes: For the most part, they're radio-styled inspirational pop ballads with driving beats and soaring hooks that drive their feel-good barbs into your brain.
Fox's ninth weekend of "The Greatest Showman" continued to show remarkable traction in sixth with a projected $6.3 million at 1,936 locations, which will lift the 62-day total to $155 million for the Hugh Jackman musical.
In his usual showman style, he preferred to stroke sitting Tory egos with a confection of positive projections and feel-good sentiments — principally about 'getting brexit done' (though nothing on how he will actually get it done).
Washington, who died on Wednesday of a brain tumor at age 52, was the kind of riveting point guard and natural showman who could have only been bred in a city where attention is at a premium.
While Federer is usually all business and Kyrgios the showman, the roles were reversed midway through the third set on Saturday when the Swiss produced a trick shot that left the Australian wide-eyed and open mouthed.
There is an indelible magical component of "Greatest Showman" that makes you feel like hope is out there, that good people are out there, and that we can have joy and happiness —even when we make mistakes.
So far 2018 has been a big year for soundtracks, with two albums connected to films going to No. 1; the year began with two weeks at the top for "The Greatest Showman," the P.T. Barnum biopic.
As always, fans can expect the consummate showman to perform classics from his Beatles, Wings and solo years, plus a few deeper cuts, in crowd-pleasing sets that approach the three-hour mark. Sept. 11-Oct. 2.
He's a showman, with his flamboyant mustache and knife-edged bons mots, and he needs an audience; watch him gather the hotel guests to narrate the series of deceptions that led to the strangling of Arlena Marshall.
President Donald Trump, flashing the fixation of a former reality television showman, lamented on Friday that his impeachment defense team was being made to present its case this weekend during the "Death Valley" of broadcast time slots.
A showman who thirsts for the spotlight and is perpetually seeking recognition for his brains, success and wealth, Trump will be at the center of the world on Friday, the place where he most wants to be.
For a master showman who is used to performing on a big national stage, it's entirely possible and even enough to convince the remaining undecided voters that he has what it takes to become our next president.
In contrast, an original musical, "The Greatest Showman" (20th Century Fox), arrived on a muted note, collecting about $8.6 million between Friday and Sunday, for a total since its Wednesday release of $13.2 million, below analyst expectations.
It should be clear by this point that his conservative populist rhetoric was just that -- words of a showman -- rather than reflective of a leader intent on transforming the relationship between the Republican Party and blue-collar workers.
Unless A Wrinkle in Time turns out to have The Greatest Showman–style staying power (and who knows!) the chances are that it will not be a money loser or a runaway financial success, but something in between.
Moments later the screen lifted to reveal Hugh Jackman standing at the peak of a pyramid of dancers while singing the theme from hit movie The Greatest Showman, as fire eaters, trapeze artists and acrobats danced all around.
"Shallow" was up against fellow Oscar hopeful "All the Stars" from Black Panther, "Mystery of Love" from Call Me By Your Name, "Remember Me" from Coco and last year's Oscar winner "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman.
Putin and Xi likely view Trump as a showman who can't seal the deal when it comes to nuclear negotiations, so they are unlikely to think the US has any leverage heading into any renewed talks with them.
He argued his campaign is "really moving" in light of what he termed a "disaster" for Clinton's campaign and then the billionaire showman even capped off the outdoors rally on a riverbank here with a flashy fireworks display.
At the time, The Greatest Showman star was in his early 20s and had just booked his first acting gig on the Australian TV series Correlli, which Furness, 13 years his senior (she's now 63), was starring in.
Now, as much as i'm enjoying imagining Bieber dolled up in a male version of Britney Spears's 2008 Circus get-up (or perhaps more likely nod to The Greatest Showman), what is with the "sexy" Halloween costume trend?
Two years ago, James Comey, who was appointed FBI Director after Mueller left the post, was a smooth-talking showman who sparred back and forth with lawmakers and used the platform to question Trump's fitness to be president.
Tom Holland is a born showman and a flawless Peter Parker; the cast is talented, funny, and diverse; it's a view of New York we've ludicrously never seen and Vulture (Michael Keaton) was the best villain since Loki.
The supposedly high-minded owners who submitted her to examination were not so different from the showman P. T. Barnum, who in 1835 launched his career with the purchase of an elderly, paralytic slave woman named Joice Heth.
BEIJING — With a dose of mystery and the flair of a showman, North Korea's young leader, Kim Jong-un, used his debut as an international statesman on Wednesday to present himself as confident, reasonable — and willing to bargain.
After shooting "The Greatest Showman" and "Spider-Man," I went back to my Disney show, which is kind of like going to college and then having to go back and do the same grade over and over again.
The soundtrack to "The Greatest Showman," the P.T. Barnum biopic starring Hugh Jackman, is No. 1 on the Billboard album chart for a second week, with the equivalent of 43,000 sales in the United States, according to Nielsen.
De Laurentiis might be most famous now as owner of S.S.C. Napoli, the Italian soccer team he rescued from oblivion and painstakingly restored to Europe's head table, but he is still, at heart, a film producer, a showman.
Mr. Garcetti has never been much of a showman, at least in the tradition of, say, Edward I. Koch or Rudolph W. Giuliani, two New York mayors who regularly became identified with the biggest crises of their cities.
Mr. Trump's West Wing has always seemed to be the crossroads between cutthroat politics and television drama, presided over by a seasoned showman who has made a career of keeping the audience engaged and coming back for more.
She and her husband, Vince — the W.W.E.'s public face and musclebound showman even into his 212s — have been among the most prolific donors to Mr. Trump's foundation, giving a total of $22016 million, according to public filings.
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Well, this is a novelty act — or at least might have been before the success of "La La Land": a modern, straight-to-screen musical, based on the rise of P. T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman).
STAR POWER The Australian showman Tony Sheldon as Bernadette; Will Swenson and Nick Adams as the drag queens Mitzi and Felicia; Mr. Swenson would look a lot more comfortable as Javert in "Les Misérables" a few years later.
When he was merely a bragging businessman, his relentless effort to alienate us from each other could be dismissed as a private citizen's character flaw -- of less consequence because he was essentially a showman and a hype artist.
To shore up his standing with white evangelicals, the president released lists of potential nominees during the campaign, and has met at least seven people on those lists, though Mr Trump, an inveterate showman, may choose someone else entirely.
RELATED: 5 things to watch at Monday night's Clinton-Trump debate Blatantly playing the expectations game, aides have publicly looked to muddy the view that Clinton should dominate on Monday by touting Trump's reality show personality and showman qualities.
Mara Reinstein, Us Magazine: It's all right here in The Greatest Showman, a candy-coated spectacle that will either delight cheerful fans of all ages during this holiday season or make them search in vain for the mute button.
Soon-Shiong, who has a reputation in the industry as a brash showman, has used skillfully produced videos in the past to promote patient success stories and convey his unshakable optimism that he is on track to vanquish cancer.
At the time, The Greatest Showman star, 49, was in his early 20s and had just booked his first acting gig on the Australian TV series Correlli, which Furness, 13 years his senior (she's now 62), was starring in.
He's a master showman who knows how to dominate the stage, and is willing to share the spotlight—as he did with House Republicans on Thursday—when it benefits the victorious narrative he wants to tell about his presidency.
We know from news accounts some of these names: Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, VonDerrit Myers Jr., Laquan McDonald, Carey Smith-Viramontes, Jeffrey Holden, Qusean Whitten, Miguel Benton, Dillon McGee, Levi Weaver, Karen Cifuentes, Sergio Ramos, Roshad McIntosh, Diana Showman.
Any halfway-decent showman could have found a streaking Otto Porter with a behind-the-back pass in this situation, but Wall decided to take things up a notch by threading the ball between his own legs while running.
The film's star, Daniel Kaluuya, was nominated for best actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy alongside Steve Carell ("Battle of the Sexes"), Ansel Elgort ("Baby Driver"), James Franco ("The Disaster Artist") and Hugh Jackman ("The Greatest Showman").
" The cheerful 1950s-style beat of "The Showman (Little More Better)" gives Bono a springboard to mock the artifice of his role as a pop singer: "Making a spectacle of falling apart is/Just the start of the show.
NYU's team plans to ramp production of up to 300,000 of these once they have materials in hand at the factories of production partners they're working with, which include Daedalus Design and Production, PRG Scenic Technologies and Showman Fabricators.
A master showman and flimflam artist, Trump saw the opportunity and sold his show (and it was, and is, a show) to an angry people still tired of going-along-to-not-get-along and still demanding drastic change.
More musical series are in the works, like a collaboration among Alicia Keys and the "Greatest Showman" composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul for Showtime and Damien Chazelle's "The Eddy," set in a Paris nightclub and bound for Netflix.
Van der Poel sent shockwaves around the peloton when he won the Amstel Gold classic this year with an audacious late chase of French showman Julian Alaphillipe, another rider with the skill set to claim the gold on Sunday.
Trump, on the other hand, is an uber-rich political showman who has rejected much of the conservative agenda for his own cult of personality built on his assertion that he will make America and Americans winners again somehow.
Up to now, Trump, ever the showman, has created a spectacle by making followers, advisers job-seekers and other supplicants travel to Trump Tower or to Trump's golf club in New Jersey to talk about the administration he is forming.
Given Trump's power as President and his skill as the consummate showman, the press will have to figure out how to respond when they find themselves in a direct competition with the White House over telling the story of our times.
And while the story is predictable and over-laden with subplots (some kind of cross between The Greatest Showman and The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and maybe a dash of Mary Poppins Returns), by the end it's justified its stay.
Rounding out this week's Top 5 is A Perfect Circle's "Eat the Elephant" at No. 3, the soundtrack for "The Greatest Showman" at No. 4 and last week's chart-topper, "Rearview Town" by the country singer Jason Aldean, at No. 5.
Dog act Lukas Pratschker and Falco kick off the first round of Judge Cuts as they bring back their creative teamwork and various tricks, this time with a Greatest Showman-inspired act as a nod to one of Cowell's favorite films.
Jessica Simpson and husband Eric Johnson threw a circus-powered bash themed after the 2017 musical hit The Greatest Showman for their older child's birthday, with Simpson sharing numerous snaps from the party to her Instagram account over the weekend.
The most charitable way to interpret what The Greatest Showman is doing is flipping the script on Barnum, letting the "freaks" take a tale that had to be full of suffering in real life and make it their fight song.
More appealing is a bigger exhibition on a brightly lit upper floor, which celebrates the feats of another local, a showman who amazed crowds by performing death-defying acts of escape, wriggling out of tight corners and slipping off handcuffs.
Musicals about the circus are actually a convenient way to discuss how business capitalizes on the novelty of outsiders — the musical Barnum tells largely the same story as The Greatest Showman, but it casts P.T. Barnum as an ambitious salesmen.
During a recent press junket promoting her upcoming movie, The Greatest Showman, alongside her co-star (and on-screen love interest) Zac Efron, the actress interrupted an interview to leap out of her seat and fix the reporter's hair on camera.
Some of his oddities were based on pure hoaxes — the traveling exhibit which established the real P.T. Barnum's reputation as a showman was a blind, nearly paralysed, elderly former slave woman he marketed as being George Washington's 171-year-old nurse.
After the video fades out, soul singer Leela James comes to the stage and begins singing The Greatest Showman's triumphant empowerment anthem "This Is Me." Some context: In The Greatest Showman, "This Is Me" is the climax of the movie.
A pair of holiday season holdovers in their eighth weekends took fourth and fifth as Sony's "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" finished with about $22017 million at 285.2,22015 sites and Fox's "The Greatest Showman" grossed $246.6 million at 215,153 screens.
"Believe me, if Donald Trump didn't have some point that he's making, hitting home with people, he could not have come this far — as much as a showman as he may be," Van Zandt, known as "Little Steven," told the paper.
Concord, New Hampshire (CNN)Jeb Bush is sharpening his attacks against rival Marco Rubio in the final few days before the New Hampshire primary, raising questions about the Florida senator's position on abortion and characterizing him as an untested, political showman.
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times: In a more honest or at least more interesting version of The Greatest Showman, P.T. Barnum, famed American ringmaster and skilled exploiter of misfits and outcasts, would have been the villain rather than the hero.
Phineas Taylor Barnum, better known as P. T. Barnum, is best remembered for the famous traveling circus depicted in The Greatest Showman, but Barnum spent much of his life delving into other ventures like newspapers, housing, literature and Connecticut politics.
A missed opportunity ahead of Helsinki Trump could have used his skills as a showman to project a united front ahead of his upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, as lawmakers in Washington had hoped Trump would do.
Fashion always loves a showman and, at the British Fashion Council show space, Mr. Pugh played his part to perfection, using the body as a stage for jaw-dropping structural black and gold creations that soared above and behind the models.
Ali was a larger-than-life, novelistic figure: not only an incandescent athlete dancing under the lights but also a showman, poet, philosopher, performance artist, statesman and hip-hop pioneer, a man compared to Whitman, Robeson, Malcolm X, Ellington and Chaplin.
When we went to interview him in his office in Trump Tower on Tuesday, 72 hours before he takes office, we expected the emphatic showman who was on display through the campaign, and as recently as last week's press conference.
For years now, members of Congress have divided on whether Trump is strong or weak, whether his political success shows an intuitive tactical genius that needs to be respected or a hollow showman who connects to conservatives but is easily flummoxed.
In showman style, Trump on Friday teased at the idea of another stunning reversal, saying, "We're talking to them now," and that "It could even be the twelfth," referring to the original plan for the summit — June 12 in Singapore.
Gove and Johnson, the former London mayor and platinum-haired showman long considered the front-runner to succeed Cameron, had campaigned side-by-side on the "Vote Leave" battle bus in the run-up to Britain's June 23 EU referendum.
His art is the work of a brilliant showman who is also a canny ethicist, one who knows about the damage power can do and who, tossing incendiary matter around as he goes, refuses to let it have its way.
It is, after all, not all that surprising that a billionaire showman with extensive media backing (including the liberal media, entranced by his antics and the advertising revenue it afforded) should win the nomination of the ultra-reactionary Republican Party.
Pablo Heras-Casado, who is conducting the Madrid production of "The Flying Dutchman," said that Mr. Ollé brought "the dimension of the showman, someone who is most interested in the global effect" rather than some of the intricacies of the opera.
Though Mr. Cotton was probably most celebrated for his work in the employ of others, his career as a bandleader, and as a dynamic showman known to do back flips onstage, proved to have greater longevity, spanning nearly half a century.
Common will be teaming up with Andra Day to perform his song "Stand Up For Something" from Marshall, Settle will perform "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman and Stevens will play "Mystery of Love," written for Call My By Your Name.
Yet experts I spoke to agree Trump has leaned on this common tactic especially hard—either because he's gearing up for some major initiatives, or because he's an ineffective showman more interested in pretending to do things than actually achieving his goals.
It my be a long shot, but if everything goes as planned, the three major companies involved want to get things rolling before the holidays, so Pitch Perfect 3 and The Greatest Showman could be among the first flicks to appear on PVOD.
A political showman who is widely thought to be keen to succeed Cameron, Johnson said he wanted to change the minds of the majority of cabinet ministers who favor voting to remain in the EU in a June 23 referendum on the issue.
Take two lost wars, stagnant wages for most people, threats of terrorism, plunging 401(k) retirement plans, and rampant anxiety — and put all that together with a practiced showman promising restored greatness — and you get the Weimar volatility of this unanchored America.
But it seems that many of the piracy groups are actively hosting the full uploaded movies on Facebook's platform, including copies of popular films like The Greatest Showman, Transformers: The Last Knight, and even blurry, recorded copies of Ant-Man and The Wasp.
Zac Efron has had a very exciting year — between kissing The Rock (yes, we're still jealous) on the set of Baywatch and a real-life bear encounter, he also starred in The Greatest Showman, alongside storied actors like Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams.
In contrast, Mr Trump is a blustering showman who would always rather cut a deal than fight a war, and who calls the invasion of Iraq "the single worst decision ever made", akin to "throwing a big fat brick into a hornet's nest".
Of late, the music industry has flirted with the idea of thrift, but Drake is a showman with a distaste for restraint: Scorpion, his fifth solo effort, embraces immoderation, a two-disc, 25-track affair that runs an obnoxious 90 minutes in full.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's globally respected broadcaster, the BBC, was told on Thursday it was guilty of serious failings in its handling of Jimmy Savile, a celebrated TV and radio showman revealed after death to have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders.
The wall text and a brisk video reveal that the facades were built from the salvage — and nothing else — of a red barn in Schoharie, N.Y. Showman Fabricators in Long Island City, Queens, which produces sets for Broadway theaters, accepted this challenge.
Even now, the N.B.A.'s most valuable player, Steph Curry — who transforms from a trash-talking showman during the game to a humble, God-fearing introvert minutes after — is the subject of all manner of racial projection and notes on skin tone.
An immaculately dressed showman who used to wheel out racks of clothes during shareholder meetings and wow an adoring mostly mature female audience with his salesman patter, Rose puts his success down to an ability to read the mood of the nation.
Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump have both tried to rattle each other during the debates by inviting guests who might unsettle their opponent, but Mr. Trump, a talented showman running a scorched-earth presidential campaign, has excelled at inviting attention-grabbing guests.
Call it what you will, what we are seeing today is how ancient fears can be spread through the electronic media, and how, in the hands of a master showman, these common prejudices can be made to serve as a political platform.
RELATED: Rubio to voters: 'I will never embarrass you' "We are ever-mindful of the fact that we are competing with the greatest showman on earth on one side and the greatest ground game in Iowa political history on the other," Harris said.
When you're a complete showman like Alice Cooper, making TV appearances is sort of a must, and given that That '70s Show rides that Dazed & Confused thing so hard, it was only a matter of time before shock rock's grand wizard appeared.
Michael Gracey, the director of "The Greatest Showman," had imagined asking a number of songwriters to contribute songs to his film, but, as he talked with Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul about the movie, abandoned that plan to give them all the work.
The gallery's halls offer a lushly decorated backdrop for the pieces "in a way that we hoped that Bernini" — who was also a showman, playwright and creator of extravagant spectacles — "might have envisaged, had he been alive," Ms. Coliva added in an interview.
But Mr. Trump is different, as much carnival barker, showman and self-promoter as politician, particularly when he wanders off-piste and into extemporaneous soliloquies about his favorite topics: the superiority of Donald J. Trump and the evilness of Donald J. Trump's enemies.
Ricky Jay, the master-showman magician, actor, scholar, special effects consultant and author who was called "the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive" by writers for the most prestigious publications of his time, died on Saturday at his home in Los Angeles.
And Mr. Rothman remains a divisive figure in Hollywood, where devotees chuckle at his showman ways — he rides around the Sony lot on a bicycle with a little personalized license plate: "ROTHMAN" — and detractors complain that he wields too strong of a hand.
Remember, quite early on, that spread-legged cowboy, Stetsoned, bandanna-ed, low-slung-gunned to the nines, standing with his back to us, staring at a blank canvas by a Ryman or some other modern American showman/roustabout big in the auction house?
But nobody was quite expecting Meryl Streep, as she collected a lifetime achievement Globe, to so firmly lay down the gauntlet for a new kind of culture war, targeting Mr. Trump's skills as a showman and entertainer and branding them as insidious.
Ever since Kanye West took over Madison Square Garden for his combined album/collection introduction a year ago, for example, thinking about his Yeezy fashion line has pretty much always meant thinking about Kanye — the clothes falling a far second to the showman.
Prior to Friday, there was some question whether Clinton (who is at her best when interacting with regular people, listening to their questions like a caseworker collecting a client's information) or Trump (a master showman with a funny, irreverent style) enjoyed an advantage.

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