Dan at Evening Standard Awards (VIDEO)

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

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<sophiamcl at h...> wrote:

> ... Daniel Radcliffe presented an award at the ESA last 
> Sunday Evening.

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See Dan at-
danradcliffe.org 
You have to scroll way down on the News page to find the video link.
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> ..., that kid impresses me like...like...like I don't know quite 
> what, but like ANYTHING. This thirteen-year-old got up and gave a 
> speech as  though he'd done nothing but present awards  his whole 
> life--confident, cool,  no hemming and hawing, and with a  large 
> dollop of stage-presence plus a  brilliant dead-pan delivery of a 
> broom-stick quip. WoW! Is this kid for real? 
> 
> Sophia

bboy_mn:

Well, I finally found the clip and after a great deal of wrangling and
cutting and pasting between browsers, I got to see it. 

(side note: unfortunatley danradcliffe.org is a little JavaScript
heavy for it's own good, and doesn't work well with Mozilla browser,
and for me anyway, the video links didn't want to play. So, in
Internet Explorer, I did a shift-left_click opening the video link in
a new window [right click has been disabled] then cut and paste the
URL into Mozilla/Netscape and it downloaded just fine. I add this in
case any one else has trouble, mayby my experience will help.)

Back to Dan-
Yes, he was definitely calm, cool, and collect although I suspect he
rehearsed and probably had his speech on a tele-prompter, that doesn't
matter, he was still very professional in his delivery.

I though he was especially cool when you consider the introduction he
was given. For those of you who didn't see the intro video, the person
doing the introducing made a fun, funny, but very embarassing joke at
Dan's expense. I don't remember it exactly but it went something like
this-

Announcer: "When I saw Dan Radcliffe, I thought he had arrived on a
broomstick, but no, he had just spotted Heidi Klum."

Big laugh, cut to Dan who is sitting across the table from super-model
Heidi Klum, he's laughing but obviously very embarassed. In case you
don't get it, it an erection joke, which would be enough to completely
rattle any boy that age. 

When you're 13 you really don't want people making a public spectacle
out of your alleged erections. Any other boy would have fallen to
piece completely. But Dan got up on stage and gave a cool professional
delivery.

I've always been very impressed with Dan's easy in front of the
camera. Always very mature but at the same time light-hearted and full
loving. It's going to be very interesting to see where this boy goes
in life.

One last thing, the woman who won the award seemed a lot more thrilled
and flustered by getting to kiss Daniel, than she was by actually have
won the award.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn