The Walt Disney comparison is particularly apt: popular showman and control freak, brilliant but menacing.
In January 1803 the anatomist and electrical showman Giovanni Aldini shocked London with a ghoulish experiment.
Tyler, ever the showman, sticks around to sign, hug, photograph with groupies young and old.
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In 1846, Buffalo Bill, American frontiersman and showman, was born as William Frederick Cody.
He possesses a light, showman's touch, and even when post-win celebrations are choreographed, they're clever.
Furthermore, the low-key Mr Ban is not the natural showman that Mr Annan was.
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The renowned showman spared no expense with his darling, filling it with Asian flourishes and Chinese-crafted artefacts.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: And like the best showman, he tosses the microphone to his aide and strikes a pose.
Whatever Hollywood may think, Kim Dotcom is a showman and joker, not the new Osama bin Laden.
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The bill had the heartfelt support of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a political showman once famous for his rabid anti-Semitism.
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Harry Gordon Selfridge was a showman, who brought many shoppers to his store.
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He was quick to understand that a museum director must be a showman.
But it was not long before Ronaldo's tendency to attempt the ridiculous saw him downgraded from showman to show pony.
Zander, a freewheeling showman, is a boisterous, energetic, fast-moving Brooklyn native who often shoots from the hip or the lip.
Tyson said he'd always considered himself a showman, even as a boxer.
Perez is a showman and artist, in addition to being a builder.
As for what Steve said about Google or Eric, they were the words of a consummate showman who always communicated for effect.
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Rogge's predecessor, Juan Antonio Samaranch, was a diplomat and showman who created the modern Olympics as a business with big TV contracts and sponsors.
He is a natural showman with the talents of a televangelist.
Broadway actor Christopher Fitzgerald has been cast in the title role as PT Barnum, the legendary US showman who created the famous Barnum and Bailey's Circus.
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Now, though, the power-punching showman from Swansea is determined to use his Haye humiliation to drive him to follow in the giant footsteps of champion Calzaghe.
Gripped by the moment and perhaps unaware he was eight short of his second Test century, the showman tried to make it three in a row.
The comments came during a sarcasm-filled closing argument at the civil trial in federal court that pits Jacqueline Goldberg against the billionaire real estate mogul-turned TV showman.
The showman first became a focus of police inquiries when he took his computer to be repaired at a shop near Bristol, and staff spotted the photographs.
Plaintiff attorney Shelly Kulwin's comments came during a sarcasm-filled closing argument at the federal civil trial that pits Jacqueline Goldberg against the billionaire real estate mogul-turned TV showman.
The theatre's history is told in a lusciously produced volume in which pretty Follies girls predominate naturally enough, as this was showman Florenz Ziegfeld's temple from 1913 to 1927.
Though the gregarious executive withheld his song and dance number (tough for him, I'm sure), he welcomed one from Ugly Betty's youngest showman, Mark Indelicato (or Justin, to Betty fans).
Usain Bolt: The man whose name sounds preordained by the Gods, a real-life superman, the greatest sprint showman that ever lived, the world-record holder and the newly crowned double Olympic champion.
Not for the first time, dark suggestions were made about whether the injury was genuine or another example of the showman bowing out when the show wasn't going quite to plan.
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