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Tee hee. When he got his gong at MOBO last year, his speech was so yo-yo-yo-know-what-I'm-sayin' embarrassing that people were openly laughing. His dad was the bishop of Peterborough, you know. A very posh chap on the quiet is Mr Westwood. The word pretentious springs to mind, but I can't possibly tell you what other word does.

There are lots of youths affecting that accent in every city, town or village.
I think it's quite bizarre that you can put that accent on but if someone affected an Irish, Australian or Indian accent in the same way, not only would it be bizarre, it would be considered stereotypical.

Todd Karr of The Miracle Factory has just released 4 dvds of the 'You've Asked For It' 1950's USA TV Show. These contain 67 performances from Dante to Blackstone to Kudda Bux to Jack Kodell and unknowns. Amongst them is Arthur Buckley performing a great Miser's Dream routine. Cop the moves in that my friends.
The 4 costs around $100.
I'll check what i paid.
Allen Tipton

Been reading this thread and I must agree with Allen. A young man by the name of Doug Henning came along and revived magic and the public loved it. After awhile, along comes Copperfield and again magic is raised up and the public loved it. Even David Blaine and Cris Angel has to a certain measure of success put magic back into the publics awareness. Even though they make the big bucks it is we who have benifited by their success. Sometimes lay people want to see the magician fail and maybe sometimes magicians, when there is famous magician in trouble, hope that it is true. He might be arrogant, have a big ego and make a couple of million a special but we all would like to at least make that much in our lifetime. I would rather hope that he is being scammed by a low-life and proven innocent. If I am wrong then he deserves what ever the court gives him. As a magician, I cannot find fault with him. As a humanbeing, time will prove him to be what he is.
Al

David Copperfield is another one of my favourites, his stuff is rather amazing, big and flashy, but there are two illusions which I love a lot.

The first one is his flying one, yes myself and a few others here know how it's done, but it's the performance that amazes me, it's so beautiful, mysterious and dream like and whenever I watch it, it makes me smile, it makes you want to close your eyes and fly too!

The second one is his transportation one, probably the best illusion I've ever seen, where him and an audience member transport to another part of the world in seconds, another amazing and beautiful performance. Infact it's so amazing, I do not ever want to know the secret to it, the guy who uploaded the clip to youtube said he knows and really wishes he didn't!

Two boys called The Double B's after their names Bradley and Billy were on the live auditions of Britains Got Talent on 5th January 2011 at the Hammersmith Apollo. One of them said David Copperfield is his inspiration, they performed the sub trunk iluusion to a cops and robbers theme, it was a great idea and they performed it very well... so why didn't they get through? none of the judges knew how it was done Loius Walsh said it was good but not great, Amanda Holden liked it and put them through and all Michael Mcintyre could say was 'would the queen like to see cops n robbers? probably not! Why do you think magicians don't do well on these shows?

I found what I believe is David's twitter account.
It appears Chris Kenner works with another forum, and I followed a link there to Chris's Twitter account, and he was following D_Copperfield.

Seems to spend a lot of time tweeting about the islands.

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